This is a brilliant assessment of the Zambian elections.
Credible elections require procedural certainty & uncertainty of outcomes.
This was not the case, & therefore
'the ECZ should not ask Zambians simply to trust them. They should show the evidence'!
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@SkySportsPL They don’t owe him shit. He’s gotten paid, he contributed, we loved him. Teams progress and evolve. He is no longer needed, it’s business. This sentimental bit is bullshit
Hope keeps demanding a “legitimate and duly adopted CCC constitution” plus a full organogram as if that is the only measure of seriousness.
The public record shows something different.CCC was deliberately structured as a citizens’ movement precisely to escape the constitutional traps that previously destroyed the MDC. That choice was made openly and repeatedly. The interim arrangement that named the Change Champion in Chief was never hidden; it was defended at the time by senior figures as a protective mechanism against the very state capture we later witnessed.
Hopewell himself has acknowledged that Tshabangu’s recalls were enabled by state institutions. Yet you place the primary blame on the absence of conventional structures rather than on the systematic infiltration and institutional capture that followed.
A movement that prioritised agility under extreme pressure is not the same as a movement that had “no leadership at all.”An interim national lineup was published in 2022. Whether it met his preferred institutional standard is a legitimate debate.
Pretending no structures of any kind existed, and then monetising the demand for documents that were never intended to function like a classic party constitution, is selective.
Journalism requires context, not just a $10 000 challenge. The real losers remain Zimbabweans who watched an opposition formation that had just performed strongly get dismantled through a combination of external interference and internal vulnerabilities. Focusing only on one side of that equation does not establish truth — it narrows it.Produce the full picture, not just the portion that fits the narrative.
South Africa has the worst set of journalists on the African continent. How do you interview a minister on a constitutional crisis without bothering to read the actual Constitution? If the journalist had done their job, they would have drilled the minister on Section 328. CAA3 is an illegal, backdoor maneuver. The constitution explicitly states that changes altering presidential election frameworks require a national referendum, not a rubber stamp from a whipped, partisan parliament. The absolute audacity of the Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs to look directly into an SABC camera and flat-out lie to millions of viewers is disgusting. Propaganda only works when journalists are too lazy to do their homework. Stop letting these politicians lie to the region with a straight face
TALK is cheap. Pinocchio had all the instruments of State @ his disposal to protect innocent people who were being brutalised, dispossessed or killed on a daily basis but did nothing!
The brigands even had the temerity to record & broadcast their actions issuing ultimata to the State, bragging there was a sitting duck @ Union Buildings as they were the REAL power in Mzansi.
& by Jove, they were right!
What is more, they carried all these acts under police escort!
& what did Matamela Pinocchio do?
He looked the other way & even had lunch with the leadership of the Afrophobes.
He should save his crocodile tears for the gullible. @MYANC@EFFSouthAfrica@MkhontoweSizwex@Our_DA@PresidencyZA@Julius_S_Malema@SADC_News@_AfricanUnion