Date for Zimbabwe elections announced

Diasporans, lets flood Zimbabwe come June 27!!

Now that the date has been announced let every Zimbabwean in the diaspora whether registered or not be there in Zim come June 27.Lets treble the number of MDC supporters Mugabe is displacing and intimidating.Let each of us sponsor at least ten people for the poll.If you voted in 2000/2002 you name is there on the voters roll,if you were a student at UZ and NUST and probably other colleges after 2000 your name is also there.This is our last chance Zimbabweans

One way to win a run-off...
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All Zimbabwe opposition rallies banned
Jun 6, `08 - Just three weeks before Zimbabwe’s presidential runoff, Robert Mugabe is giving the opposition little room to campaign - detaining its candidate, banning rallies and attacking diplomats who try to investigate political violence.

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Even food is being used as a weapon, American and British officials said, with a ban on aid agencies ensuring that the poorest Zimbabweans must turn to Mugabe for help even if they blame him for the collapse of the economy. The government denied the allegations. Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai out-polled Mugabe and two other candidates in the first round of voting March 29, but did not get the simple majority necessary to avoid a runoff. In recent days, it has become increasingly clear that Mugabe does not plan to let Tsvangirai come close to toppling him in the June 27 runoff.

Tsvangirai tried to campaign around Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second-largest city, on Friday, but he was stopped at two roadblocks. At the second, he was ordered to go to a police station about 30 miles from Bulawayo. About two hours later, he and reporters with him were allowed to leave the station. They drove back to Bulawayo under police escort. His spokesman, George Sibotshiwe, said Tsvangirai was questioned by police for 25 minutes and was told that all party rallies in Zimbabwe had been banned indefinitely.

“We are dismayed that our president has not been allowed to access the Zimbabwean people at a crucial stage in this campaign," Sibotshiwe said. Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change said police had banned its rallies out of concern for the safety of Tsvangirai and other party leaders. Sibotshiwe called the justification “nonsense," and said the ban was “a clear indication that the regime will do everything necessary to remain in power." Police spokesman Wayne Bvudzijena said in an interview with The Associated Press that “people are free to campaign as they choose," but he said Tsvangirai had consistently broken the law by failing to notify police of his rallies.

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Zimbabwe High Court tryin' to help get rid of Mugabe?...
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Zimbabwe court overturns police ban
June 08, 2008 - ZIMBABWE’S High Court today overturned a police ban on opposition rallies this weekend ahead of the June 27 presidential run-off, a lawyer for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) said.

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“The effect of the order is to allow MDC rallies to proceed. The order simply says that police should not interfere with the MDC rallies. We made an urgent chamber application after police wrote to say the rallies scheduled for this weekend should not continue,” MDC lawyer Charles Kwaramba said. He said High Court judge Alfas Chitakunye gave the order on Saturday afternoon. The application only sought to challenge the police ban on MDC rallies scheduled for this weekend.

“The ruling is logical. What is disturbing is we have to go to the High Court each time we want to meet our supporters. That only happens in a dictatorship. We are not an underground or guerrilla movement, we need to meet the people,” MDC spokesman Nelson Chamisa said. He said the rallies the party planned for this weekend would go ahead.

Police yesterday banned several of the planned rallies in the campaign for the presidential run-off between the MDC’s Morgan Tsvangirai and veteran leader Robert Mugabe because authorities could not guarantee the safety of party leaders. Chamisa said the police decision to bar opposition rallies was “deplorable”.

“It is absolutely deplorable that the police and some state institutions have willingly become agents of repression. They seem to be taking instructions from ZANU-PF,” Mr Chamisa said. Zimbabwean police arrested another opposition lawmaker – Eric Matinenga – today, a day after Tsvangirai was detained for the second time this week ahead of the run-off vote.

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