Zanu PF starts vote buying ahead of 2008 elections

OUR sources reliably have it on confirmed basis that Zanu PF plans
to give 50 000 ploughs, 50 000 simple ground agricultural harrows
and 50 000 Scotch Carts to voters in rural areas commencing October 2007.
 
In 2005 Zanu-PF used maize seed and fertilizers to buy voters in the
rural areas. The Zanu-PF ruling party has always used some blackmail in addition to using military force to have people cast votes for it. In by-elections that have taken place in-between, Zanu PF has used village heads to coerce villagers to vote for her party candidates or have no corn meal given to that family or village.
 
The elections for both presidential and parliamentarian are scheduled to take place in March 2008. Meanwhile every sensible person in the
country hopes that President Mugabe will observe the SADC electoral
protocol, even though ground indications show the negative signs only. President Robert Mugabe is intransigent, belligerent and recalcitrant.

While he scores a plus for scorning on western powers, his poor human rights observations have earned him an abject dictator name, which he has lived to be.
 
The new effort to buy the voters , which does not happen during all other years but towards elections, show that Zanu-Pf is very much afraid of the contest from the MDC. With other political parties denied political campaign despite that they have obtained police permit, Zanu-PF is allowed campaign, even without being granted police permit, any time. The police even join Zanu-Pf when they are protesting for Mugabe to be Zanu-Pf’s only presidential
candidate. Any political party or civil organization to protest attracts heaviest punishment from government.
 
A Zanu-Pf company in Norton is stockpiling the agricultural items above that Zanu-pf shall give to the rural farming peasants with a view to buy and retain their loyalty and support during the coming elections. The funding is said to have been bankrolled by Gideon Gono’s Reserve/Central Bank of Zimbabwe. The question is, why would the country bank finance a political party to buy its political campaign propaganda equipments?
 
On one hand, the rest of political parties in Zimbabwe cannot raise funds externally or internally, without their source being visited from the secret police or central intelligence organization (CIO) boys. Fear of being charged with being subversive or treasonable haunts every organization hence every one being careful to deal with opposition political parties.
 
Recently Morgan Tsvangirai visited Australia and at the same time strong anti Zanu-Pf’s human abuse reaction come forth when children of Zanu-PF officials were send back home. Zanu-pf is now looking at a way of charging Morgan Tsvangirai with some accusation to justify either arrest or detention in order that he may not be in touch with the outside world. Mugabe visits SADC countries any time and carries his propaganda at state expenses. His party campaigns are sponsored from state coffers.
 
The world once more need watch carefully the mischief of Zanu-pf in undermining people vote through very corrupt bribery of the few cronies. Zimbabweans yes need ploughs, harrows and scotch cats, but not as blackmail to show the world that Zanu-Pf supports people needs. On the contrary Zanu-Pf government supports those who support it in her oppressive orchestrated efforts. We will weekly highlight the short circuited ways of Zanu-pf towards rigging March 2008 elections as they usually do year after year.
 
We pray the world to make reality their condemnation of human abuse and help us achieve democratic rule in Zimbabwe. It is abuse of power and people to buy people with what they need by giving it as a condition for supporting and voting for  a ruling party.

MANYEVERE IS AN MDC ACTIVIST BASED IN CANADA.