Zimbabwe Readies For Referendum

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Zimbabwe readies for referendum

HARARE: -- Zimbabweans are voting today in a constitutional referendum that would guarantee democracy in future elections in the crisis-weary country.

If approved, the new supreme law will also clip many of the presidential powers that veteran leader Robert Mugabe has enjoyed for decades.

The constitution looks poised to be easily adopted, laying the groundwork for watershed general elections.

The basic law puts improvements in human rights to the fore, with freedom of the press and gender equality. It also guarantees free, fair and regular elections.

Source: http://english.ruvr.ru/2013_03_16/Zimbabwe-readies-for-referendum/

-- THE VOICE OF RUSSIA 2013-03-16

[Locationthailand]

A step in the right direction perhaps? I doubt Mugabe will let this go peacefully as he is described as...

"... a volcanic, sabre-rattling and quarrelsome loner with a frosty inner weather ever more ready to fight and ‘crush’ than to chatter a discourse"

"... a clear pattern of thuggish belligerence in the face of popular will"

"... a person who seeks to control a people through fear"

"... constantly issues out a diet of threats which he occasionally commutes into reality in a calculated manner aimed at achieving devotion"

"... his whole machinery of state apparatus (public media and the security services included) is complicit in violent action under the cover of a panoply of discredited rules"

it is called state terrorism and a terrorist is a terrorist. It doesn’t matter whether they are a black African revolutionary or an Arab or a president.

Edited March 16, 2013 by Locationthailand

[ThaidDown]

A step in the right direction perhaps? I doubt Mugabe will let this go peacefully as he is described as...

"... a volcanic, sabre-rattling and quarrelsome loner with a frosty inner weather ever more ready to fight and ‘crush’ than to chatter a discourse"

"... a clear pattern of thuggish belligerence in the face of popular will"

"... a person who seeks to control a people through fear"

"... constantly issues out a diet of threats which he occasionally commutes into reality in a calculated manner aimed at achieving devotion"

"... his whole machinery of state apparatus (public media and the security services included) is complicit in violent action under the cover of a panoply of discredited rules"

it is called state terrorism and a terrorist is a terrorist. It doesn’t matter whether they are a black African revolutionary or an Arab or a president.

And they are only his good points.

[Calach]

They use bank notes as ballot papers.

[stoffel45]

It's not fair. Mugabe and his democratic ZanuPF won't release the results of the Zim Referendum before it is held.

Apparently, the results are kept in a locked box in the trunk of a car "somewhere near Darwin".

[MAJIC]

This must be the strangest Referendum ever. Magabe the Dictator who has Bankrupted his Country,abused his people for 40 plus years,including countless Murders,Blames other Countries for his people starving,while he lives in Luxury,has fiddled many Elections,and reduced his Countrymen and women to living in daily fear of reprisals and death if they do not conform to his demands,has now decided he will allow the people to have a fixed Referendum.

Another Evil maniac,the likes of: Idi Amin, Doc Duvalier,Pinochet,Ghadaffi,Chairman Mao,etc, who needs to join his Brothers in Hell,as swiftly as possible!

[MAJIC]

They use bank notes as ballot papers.

Which are worth much less,than the Ballot papers.

Edited March 17, 2013 by MAJIC

[folium]

They use bank notes as ballot papers.

Which are worth much less,than the Ballot papers.

Zim switched from Zim$ to the US$ almost 4 years ago, so you are a little behind the times...

[MAJIC]

They use bank notes as ballot papers.

Which are worth much less,than the Ballot papers.

Zim switched from Zim$ to the US$ almost 4 years ago, so you are a little behind the times...

I think You have missed the point entirely,they are broke,as was mentioned in a recent topic (4-5 weeks ago ?) that stated they had between $ 200 to $ 300 left in the their government coffers,which makes the weight of Ballot Papers and printing alone worth more,as was stated in my last post!

[Chicog]

He's a senile old git and surely nowadays just a figurehead for the people who really run things behind the scenes.

[folium]

They use bank notes as ballot papers.

Which are worth much less,than the Ballot papers.

Zim switched from Zim$ to the US$ almost 4 years ago, so you are a little behind the times...

I think You have missed the point entirely,they are broke,as was mentioned in a recent topic (4-5 weeks ago ?) that stated they had between $ 200 to $ 300 left in the their government coffers,which makes the weight of Ballot Papers and printing alone worth more,as was stated in my last post!

Zim has rarely been short of cash, especially since the discovery/exploitation of the Marange diamond fields south of Umtali. Sadly the cash derived from such operations makes it only as far as offshore accounts for ZANU-PF senior officials.