My grandfather used to tell me that if you want to die a miserable death, join politics, and that politics is a dirty game. The way we play draughts (tsoro), that’s the same way politics is, creating space in order to be the winner.

“When you join in a political fight by way of an election you must be prepared to lose,” President Mugabe told a rally in Nyanga, just three days before the elections. “You must accept it. If Zanu PF wins you must accept it, if you (MDC) win we will accept,” he said.

On election day, he reiterated his assertions, saying he would not sleep with a “clear conscience” knowing he had won the elections through rigging. “There was no language of rigging in this country until the (arrival of the) MDC,” he said in Nyanga.

What surprises me now is that up to 12 days, no Presidential results have been announced. Who is not accepting defeat?

So what became of Mugabe’s promise that they would accept the election results? Where are those results? Why has the ZEC stopped the pretense of scrutinising them?

This entry was posted on April 11th, 2008 at 3:49 pm by Dennis Nyandoro and is filed under Elections 2008, Uncategorized. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.