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Zimbabwe: Chinamasa Blasts U.S. Official Frazer
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The Herald (Harare)
26 April 2008
Posted to the web 25 April 2008
Harare
GOVERNMENT has dismissed statements by US Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer claiming that Morgan Tsvangirai won an outright victory in the March 29 harmonised elections.
Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Cde Patrick Chinamasa, who is also the Zanu-PF media sub-committee chairman, described Frazer's utterances as "patently false, inflammatory, irresponsible and uncalled for".
He said the statement contradicts, in a material respect, information conveyed to Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa, the current Sadc chairman by US ambassador to Zimbabwe James McGee just before the extraordinary summit held in Lusaka.
"In extensive communication between them just prior to the summit, the American ambassador disclosed that no candidate had been able to reach the legal threshold of 51 percent of the valid votes cast in the first leg of the presidential election," he said.
In her statement on Thursday, Frazer claimed President Mugabe was trying to steal the election through a recount and should step down for Tsvangirai.
Cde Chinamasa said unofficial results posted on the Zimbabwe Election Support Network website, an American-sponsored civil society appendage of the MDC-T, never gave any of the presidential contestants an absolute majority.
"Although official results have not yet been released, all independent tallies of the results posted outside polling stations on Forms V11 and in the possession of all political players point to a run-off.
"Frazer has no moral or legal authority to make unfounded announcements on our domestic processes. Even the figures published on the MDC-T website on April 2 do not make Morgan Tsvangirai an outright winner," he said.
"The intensification of the sanctions against Zimbabwe just before the elections and large sums of money poured by the British and Americans to bribe people to vote against President Mugabe did not and will not succeed in breaking the resolve of the people of Zimbabwe to assert their sovereignty over their resources."
Cde Chinamasa said the utterances, which came on the heels of similar statements by Britain, the EU and Australia, confirm the true identity of the Western axis behind the illegal regime change agenda in Zimbabwe.
"It is no secret that the US and the British have poured in large sums of money behind the MDC-T's sustained demonisation campaign that seeks to render the country ungovernable in order to justify external intervention to reverse the gains of the land reform programme," he said.
"More than anything else, Frazer's comments expose Morgan Tsvangirai and his MDC for what they are -- an Anglo-American project designed to defeat and reverse the gains of Zimbabwe's liberation struggle, to undermine the will of the Zimbabwean electorate and to return the nation to the dark days of white domination."
He said Frazer's comments, while heightening the vigilance of the Government and people of Zimbabwe to the full magnitude and realities of the threat that confronts the nation, should be dismissed with the utmost contempt they deserve.
"We know her kind. She has previously made unstately and inappropriate comments on the Eritrea-Ethiopia border issue in 2006 and describing the post-election violence in Kenya as 'ethnic cleansing' at the end of December 2007.
"No one -- including the US government, its intelligence apparatus and officials -- has the prerogative, at law to usurp the constitutional role of ZEC and the will of the people of Zimbabwe to impose Morgan Tsvangirai as the next president of Zimbabwe outside our electoral process.
"Pending the release of the official results by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission, no individual, corporate entity or country has any authority to declare a result," he said.
Cde Chinamasa said ZEC should be allowed to complete the electoral process without hindrance or interference.
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"ZEC is entitled to compute and tally figures on the basis of the primary source documents namely the V11 forms, which were posted outside the 9 108 poling stations countrywide."
Cinamasa should realise he is out of a job, a dictator as a master and no freebies from now on, no more free farm free businesses or free lunches. As a matter of fact his life is going to become very hard as NO one is going to want a legal man who supported Muagbe blindly and without due though. Mugabe lost hands down . Good bye Mugabe, goodbye Chinamasa, I hope you have a good pension policy and by the way good riddance!
Jeffjedi, you are out of your mind! Americans solving African problems! since when? You must be talking about the USA helping aparthied South Africa to arrest Mandela and claiming to be fighting communism. How can we forget when the USA funded Unita and Jonas Savimba to kill as many angolans as possible! Can they real solve African problems! The USA has been vocal about Darfur(Sudan) and what have they achieved..absolutely nothing!! Ohhhhh the USA stabilized Iraq! what rubbish. They have failed to improve Iraq after spending 100 trillion dollars. What a joke!
Oh bye the way Zimbabwe offered USA election... [Read Full Text]
What the US and Britain are doing is "interfering in the democratic affairs of a sovereign African nation". The people who accepted money from them to outvote Mugabe because he is taking back farm lands that were gained during the days of colonization. This is clear to see for those who do not have hidden agendas. What the ZANU-PF should do is indict all the MDC on charges of treason. This is what America would do if an election candidate here got money from a foreign government for their election campaign.(Or would they? Clinton took Chinese funds)
Zuma was forthright that the ANC was speaking as a neighbour “directly affected” by the deepening social and economic crisis in Zimbabwe.Never did the ANC pretend that “megaphone diplomacy” or military adventurism was the solution to the Zimbabwean crisis.
African leaders who attended the AU summit in Mauritius at the weekend came to the same conclusion, endorsing Mbeki to continue his mediation efforts.That is unless they want Mugabe to drive a wedge through Sadc as he did to the European Union ahead of Lisbon last year, much to “militant” Gordon Brown’s embarrassment.
My reading of the ANC’s statement yields two... [Read Full Text]
I dont know why do we care what Frazer or any American poletician said. we, African, can take care of our selves as long as USA and britain not interfering. regarding Frezer, let me give you one good example. she told to former USA ambasoder to UN Mr, John Bolton willing to revers the court decision regarding Ethiopia-eritrea war, see mr boltons book. she was favour to ethiopia. In a briefing before Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's travel to Ethiopia, Assistant Secretary for African Affairs Jendayi Frazer responded to questions pertaining to Eritrea too. Following is an excerpt of... [Read Full Text]
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