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Two pieces of fried chicken, a loaf of bread wrapped in plastic adorned with Emmerson Mnangagwa’s portrait. Zanu PF's well-funded campaign looks interesting – until the party’s presidential candidate opens his mouth in front of a crowd. Violet Gonda reports:

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#EUImpalaCarsDealScandal
The European Union (EU)'s election observer mission to Zimbabwe is inadvertently subsidising human rights abuses and impunity in the country by hiring luxury cars for Wednesday’s crucial general elections from Impala Car Rental, a company associated with abduction and torture of citizens by local state security agency, Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), for political reasons.
Zimbabwe has many car rental companies, but the EU chose one with a grisly human rights record by association with CIO and its activities.
CIO is notorious for brutality and impunity against innocent citizens associated with the opposition and civil society.
It is sometimes used a political instrument by government for partisan political agendas, not protecting state security and the national interest.
In 2020, Impala rented cars to CIO which were used to abduct and torture a student journalist and opposition political activist Tawanda Muchehiwa.
Muchehiwa, who is a nephew to prominent https://t.co/dcdCa8HAeL editor Mduduzi Mathuthu, endured horrific and traumatic torture, which forced him to flee the country to the United Kingdom.
The abduction and torture scandal has not been resolved partly because Impala was not cooperative; it has effectively been protecting abductors and torturers who abuse citizens for partisan political reasons.
The Zimbabwean government has systematically ensured that those responsible for torture, abductions and political killings are never brought to justice.
As a result, impunity has now become a central problem in Zimbabwe where state and non-state actors commit widespread human rights violations without consequences and being brought to justice.
Unless the cycle of impunity can be broken, human rights abuses will continue and worsen unchecked and victims and their families will not see justice.
The EU election observer mission to Zimbabwe's deal with Impala - which involves a lot of money paid for the rented cars - amounts to an alarming subsidisation of horrific human rights violations and impunity.
*Caption: Below is EU election observer mission to Zimbabwe chief observer Fabio Massimo Castaldo, a Member of the European Parliament.

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#ZimElections2023FiveDaysToGo
#BattleEruptsOverBallotPapers

Zimbabwe's main opposition CCC and its elections bureau director Ian Makone have taken the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to the High Court - yet again - over secret and illegal printing of ballots papers for next week's crucial general elections.
The application is about Zec's opaque, dodgy and fraudulent management of the elections.
The first applicant in the crucial matter is CCC and the second is Makone.
The first respondent is Zec, the second its chairperson Priscilla Chigumba and the third chief elections officer Utoile Silaigwana.
As widely reported by The NewsHawks, Zec has been printing ballot papers illegally in violation of section 52A of the Electoral Act which requires it to inform parties involved in the elections who is printing the ballots, where and when it started.
The law also demands that Zec should disclose whether it has already distributed the ballots to polling stations and also how many to each one of the 12 370 polling stations in 1 970 wards and 210 constituencies in next week's elections.
In terms of the law, Zec should also not print the total number of ballots in excess by more than 10% of the total number of registered voters.
As a result of Zec's conduct of printing ballots secretly and illegally, which also violates constitutional requirements for it to run elections independently,
openly and transparently, CCC wants an order of mandamus against Zec, forcing it to perform its statutory obligations.
CCC wants an order covering the following:
i) All information and details of where and by whom are ballots are being printed;
ii) The total number of ballots printed and also their serial numbers;
iii) The number of ballots that have been distributed to polling stations and also how many per each polling station, as well as details of postal ballots in that regard;
iv) Information that the total number of ballots printed does not exceed by more than 10% of the total number of registered voters;
v) Provide serial numbers of all ballot papers distributed to each and every polling station;
vi) Give full details on postal ballots; how many have been printed, their serial numbers and how they were distributed.
In his certificate of urgency to the court saying the matter is urgent, Harare lawyer Webster Jiti says Zec has brazenly violated the law and the matter is urgent given that elections are now five days away.
He says as a result, the matter cannot be heard of the original roll and it's also of huge public interest.
Says Jiti: "The violation of the law involved is egregious and threatens the freeness, fairness and credibility of the harmonised elections."

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A total of 200 hectares is under herbs and chillies at the company's estate in Penhalonga, Mutare. The lead company, La Rochelle, employs 255 workers and is already exporting 230 tonnes of its produce

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