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Zimbabwe
Election Watch - September 2011
Idasa
October 14, 2011
http://www.idasa.org/our_products/resources/output/zimbabwe_election_watch_september/
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Measuring the Zimbabwean electoral environment according
to the SADC Guidelines Governing Democratic Elections
On the 17th
of August 2004, the Southern African Development Community (SADC)
leaders adopted the SADC Principles and Guidelines Governing Democratic
Elections. As a member of SADC, Zimbabwe was a signatory to these
benchmark principles, and therefore it is entirely fitting that
Zimbabwe's performance in relation to the future elections
be measured against these principles and guidelines.
Electoral Institute
for the Sustainability of Democracy in Africa's brief overview
of Zimbabwe's electoral system.
SADC
principles for conducting democratic elections:
Article:
2.1.1 Full participation of citizens in the political process
Compliant: No
Divergence/Obstructive
Legislation
- The Zimbabwe
Constitution Select Committee (COPAC) spokesperson, MDC-T's
Jessie Majome, voiced concern that the constitution would not
extend voting rights to Zimbabwean's outside of the country,
citing a 2005 Supreme Court ruling and the reluctance by partners
in the Government
of National Unity (GNU) to extend the voting rights to Zimbabweans
in Diaspora
- Citizenship
of Zimbabwe Amendment Act, 2003
- Guardianship
of Minors Act, 1961
- Broadcasting
Services Act, 2001
Article
2.1.2 Freedom of association
Compliant: No
- Police in
Harare banned an MDC-T Youth Assembly from holding a march in
central Harare during October
- A group of
ten youths from MDC-N were picked up by soldiers in Bulawayo and
severely beaten and tortured for allegedly handing out fliers
too close to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's, State
House. MDC-N spokesman Edwin Ndhlovu described the arrests as
political persecution
- 12 members
of Women
and Men of Zimbabwe Arise (WOZA) were arrested
during a march in Bulawayo that had been organised to commemorate
the International Day of Peace. Riot police were dispatched to
break up the march, beating several people in the process
- Zimbabwe's
breakaway Anglican bishop Nolbert Kunonga, a supporter of Mugabe,
took more than half of the church's properties in Zimbabwe,
including scores of places of worship, mission schools and business
centers following the Zimbabwe's High Court ruling that
gave Kunonga custodianship of all properties belonging to the
Church of the Province of Central Africa
- Reverend
Lovemore Kasipo was evicted from the St Edmunds Parish in Chegutu
under the instruction of Bishop Nolbert Kunonga
- Public
Order and Security Act, 2002, amended 2007
Article
2.1.3 Political tolerance
Compliant: No
- Retired Major
General Kudzai Mbudzi says his life is in danger after calling
for Mugabe's exit. Mbudzi says youths in Masvingo led by
the Zanu PF national deputy youth commissar, Talent Majoni, are
threatening him
- Two City
of Harare councillors, Casper Takura and Warship Dumba, were arrested
at Mabvuku Police Station and transferred to Harare Central Police
Station. Charges for their arrest remain unclear, but MDC-T maintains
that the arrests are politically motivated
- Tracy Mutinhiri,
the Labour and Social Services deputy minister, faces expulsion
from Zanu PF after being accused by her of having a relationship
with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T
- During a
meeting organised by Matabeleland Draught Alleviation Trust, Chief
Cleopas Suku of Bulilima district in Matabeleland South made veiled
threats against those who vote for MDC
- An MDC-T
official Victor Chifodya was injured, along with at least one
other person, after Zanu PF youths attacked people outside Parliament
on 6 September
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