Zim post-election brutality — the proof is in the pictures…

Today I got an email which comprehensively documents the Zimbabwe government’s “Operation Mavoterapapi” – a crackdown of retribution and repression on perceived opposition to the fascist Zanu PF regime. Below is the email reproduced in full. Some pictures are not appropriate for sensitive viewers.
The TRUTH about what is going on in Zimbabwe right now !!!
This [...]

Make newspaper text bigger… or else!

His excellency the President of Zim’s sight has got so bad that he can no longer read newspapers. In an article on NewZimbabwe.com it is revealed that Mugabe has demanded that the font-size of state-owned papers be increased. As if that would give him any clue about what’s really going on!
Ndlovu told state media editors [...]

Zimbabwean quote of the day II

“The moment the people stop supporting you, then that’s the moment you should quit politics.”
ROBERT MUGABE
Source: www.cathybuckle.com
If only he were to follow his own advice…
With the release of the presidential election results suspended, a storm is brewing. Has the past few days been Zimbabwe’s “Prague Spring”? Things don’t look good; but should Mugabe and [...]

Where to now for the billion-dollar banana republic?

The Zimbabwean election results took me by surprise. And what a wonderful surprise it was!
I had overestimated the ability of the entire Zanu-PF state apparatus to rig an election. But clearly their ineptitude got the better of them – or perhaps the people in power knew that change was inevitable so they ended up doing [...]

Zimbabwean quote of the day

“We are not in the habit of rigging… We don’t rig elections. I cannot sleep with my conscience if I have rigged.”
ROBERT MUGABE
Source: The UK’s Sunday Telegraph.
Is he a liar or just delusional? Perhaps all he’s saying is that he’s an insomniac. Or that he doesn’t sleep with his conscience. Ah, [...]

Friends, Zimbabweans, countrymen!

The e-card above from Sokwanele says it all. To the Zimbabweans that remain in their beloved country – get out to the polls and vote!
The cynic in me says that to do so would be pointless. After all, the government and its shadowy accoutrements are desperate to cling to power and will do anything possible [...]

Google Maps to show Zim election abuses

This morning I got a press release from Sokwanele (“enough is enough”), the Zimbabwe Civic Action Support Group that is campaigning for freedom and democracy in Zimbabwe. The release outlines how Google Maps is being used on their site to show where electoral code breaches (from gerrymandering and vote buying to abduction and murder) [...]