Things Stand Still

Hope easily becomes frustration. People’s dreams are daily being butchered into a nightmare. The dream of last week becomes the agony of this week. A week is a short time in politics. Here in Zimbabwe we have learnt that in the most painful way. 

ZANU (PF) is trying to steal the election before the results have even been made public. Meanwhile the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has been intimidated and virtually disbanded. ZANU has been beaten but it’s determined to push for a re-run of the election by intimidating election officials and beginning a new wave of violence. These are the last kicks of the jongwe that I feared. We know this beast all too well. If the Zimbabwean democratic forces and the international community don’t act quickly and forcefully then our country is going to descend into darkness. At the moment the daily response to ‘How’re things?’ is ‘Zvinhu zvakangomira’. Things are standing still. Yes, they are. A moment of calm before a vicious storm.  

This is Comrade Fatso’s Daily Election Blog. See www.comradefatso.vox.com

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