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IN TOUCH WITH CHURCH AND FAITH, NUMBER 46 14 JULY 2005
WE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT TRUTH
JESUITS AND THE PROBLEM OF ILLEGAL SETTLERS ON MANRESA FARM
SA CHURCH DELEGATION VISITS MBARE
REPORT TO SOUTH AFRICAN COUNCIL OF CHURCHES on Pastoral Visit to Zimbabwe
THE -NATIONAL INTEREST- OF ZIMBABWE
Mbare Report No 15, 13 July 2005,
WE CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT TRUTH
I could not get into my own premises, such a throng of people
jostling each other were in front of the gate. People are hungry and desperate.
Were is the next meal coming from? The sick, the handicapped, the elderly may
get elbowed out of the way; the bedridden may be left out altogether. Mbare has
an unusually large elderly population. Leaders of our parish neighbourhood
groups come with lists of people
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A History of Zimbabwean Elections
It was alleged that the 1980 elections, which were defining in that they marked the end of colonial rule and the dawning of political independence, were rigged.
See ZAPU and the 1980 election.
Irregularities
The late Vice President Joshua Nkomo, in his personal memoirs, The Story of My Life, believed the 1980 elections were rigged and that Zanu-PF used militias to cordon off some parts of the rural areas it believed to be potential strongholds of his political party, The Zimbabwe African People’s Union ZAPU. He points out to politically motivated violence, murder and rape perpetrated on political competitors as some of the ways Zanu-PF used to stjäla the 1980 election. “…the British election supervisors in an interim report had told the governor that more than half of the electorate was living in conditions where a free vote could not take place.
Nkomo claimed that Zapu was cheated out of some seats it could have won, given a fair campaign,”
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2000 Zimbabwean parliamentary election
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Parliamentary elections were held in Zimbabwe on 24 and 25 June 2000 to elect members of the House of Assembly. The electoral system involved 120 constituencies returning one member each, elected by the first-past-the-post system, with the president nominating 20 members and ten tribal chiefs sitting ex officio. This was the first national election in which Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU–PF party had faced any real opposition since the 1980s, with the newly formed Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) challenging their control of parliament.
ZANU–PF won 62 seats with 48% of the popular vote,[1]