Posted by Zimbabwe will need 200 million US dollars (157 million euros) to hold polls
next year if leaders insist on meeting unity deal time-frames, media
reported Wednesday.
Fresh elections are due in 2011 under the power-sharing pact signed two
years ago by President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai.
The “200 million would be required for two elections (including
parliamentary polls),” Finance Minister Tendai Biti was quoted as saying by
the state-run Herald newspaper.
Biti said a decision on elections lay with Mugabe and Tsvangirai, who formed
a compromise government last year to pave the way for fresh polls after a
bloody presidential run-off election in which Mugabe was the sole candidate.
Zimbabwe’s electoral commission indicated last week that it will not be able
to draw up a clean voters’ roll and organise elections next year because of
lack of funding.
Electoral reforms are also needed for credible polls, it said.
Parliament is to amend electoral laws to speed up the announcement of
results and create a system for reporting political violence before the new
polls.
The parties also agreed to draft a new constitution before the next
elections but a drive to gather suggestions for the new charter has been
marred by reports of intimidation.
Under the power-sharing deal, Zimbabwe was meant to draft a new constitution
and put it to a referendum by November 2010, with new elections by February
2011
vabiti musataure zvinhu zvinogwadza imi. muri kureva kuti kana pasina mari iyi hapana election here? muchiti titongwe zve nemudhara uyu here kusvika rinhi? tsvakai mexercise books modhinda nechidhindo chaheadmaster vanhu vovhota. mongotora zvifana zvisina mabasa moti 100 iyo pamunhu. moti rave basa remaparty kutsvaga vanomiririra kuvata pamaexercise books aya akadhindwa. munoona zvinhu zvikatoita chimwe chikomba tasa. aika .
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Kana pasina mari iyi,hapana election.Zimbabwe funds its own elections.Musoro,you’re saying,”tsvakai maexercise books modhinda nechidhindo chaheadmaster vanhu vovhota”,If we do that then the election will not be credible,we defeat you then you start complaining,then the crisis comes back again.
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If we look for money specifically for “credible” elections, donors will come forward. We have a problem of having Mugabe as a winner or no election. The election outcomes in Zim are (i) Mugabe wins or (ii) there is no election.
Some people equate elections to regime change, but are elections and regime change the same?
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Elections and an illegal regime change are the same if the electorate is voting under durress from illegal economic sanctions.That’s not a credible election.Zimbabwe funds its own elections,we don’t want “donors” to fund our election.Those donors can back off and stay away.
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Now the economic principles are that you dont spend if you dont have. Since we dont have money to fund the elections we will not spend. This translated into political language means that there are no elections for the good reason that the nation cannot fund. It is a way of prolonging political confusion in the country.
R.B.X jnr you know it.
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…..This translated into political language means that there are no elections for the good reason that the nation cannot fund them.Apa wataura zviri bho.If we cannot fund them on our own,we cannot have them.We will not accept donor money for elections.
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He talked sense this time.
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If there is no election does that favour Zanu Pf or the MDC? If there was to be a free and fair election would Zanu necessarily lose?
USD 200,000,000.00 is a lot of money. How were elections paid for in the past?
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Remember Gono raided private accounts, at one time he diverted donor funds for “important national priorities”. Kuruneri lost some forex to Gono. There was the printing press at Fidelity. Maybe China helped also.
There is some transparency now such that 95% of donor funds cant be spend on “administrative issues”. It is highly likely that anyone who tends to spill the cake in order to benefit from crumbs will be exposed. The game has changed now.
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Dzimai,On the issue of the “important national priorities” One of them is the farming mechanisation programme,spearheaded by Gono.You are now witnessing the fruits of that in agriculture as the sector is now growing at a fast pace.The farming mechanisation programme helped new farmers get farming equipment which they are utilising right now.
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The agricultural sector is growing at a fast pace….in someones dilusional dreams….Mind you 10% of nothing is still nothing.
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You’re angry that black farmers are finally becoming productive?This is only the beginning.The new farmers will exceed what the white farmers were doing in tobacco,horticulture,dairy,cotton,maize,soya beans etc.
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Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha . jnr that was a good joke.Have you got another one Ha ha ha ha ha.
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hahahahahaha, this little boy bmx must be nuts if he thinks “farmers” who stay in the surburbs monday-friday will transcend the white proffessionals. how foolish can one be?? zanoids are silly.
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hahahahahaha, this little boy bmx must be brainwashed with urine if he thinks “farmers” who stay in the surburbs monday-friday will transcend the white proffessionals. how paranoid can one be?? zanoids are farking zealots! VOTE MDC
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Bobby can you tell me why you consider it a joke.
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The election will be held and zanu-pox will steal it. Some poor jerks in europe, or NA will drop the money in Zim’s begging bowl and Mugabe et al will go on as usual even if the old man actually dies someday. There is no change in the near (10-15 years) future for Zimbo. Leave them alone and let them stew in their own juices!
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Willie, You’re now professising the future like that Nigerian spiritual healer whom tsvangson is seeing right now?
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Biti you need to join Tsvangirayi to get spiritual help from Nijas in Nigeria, what a desperate situation.
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Yeah,maybe the entire kitchen cabinet of that party needs to go to Nigeria to get “spiritual help”
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look who is talking….. dont act like you silly corrupt ministers are saints. Honai elliot manyika akauraya vanhu after elections….mukabva mamuuraya. Everyone knows for a fact that zanu pf is an evil mafia and is only there by hook and crook. no matter how much dead B.C propapanda you use…. matibili wenyu akati “this is the worst cabinet in history” and still went on to appoint the same matha farkas haaa zve zanu pf zvakaoma. zvinotoda kunamatirwa.
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