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The Namibian
Tue 13 Aug 2013
SMS Of The Day * MINISTRY of Gender and Child Welfare, TEARS are rolling down as I write this SMS. The killing of women in Namibia is now like reciting a poem. Are we really getting the protection we deserve while women not being treated as part of this c Food For Thought * SO the Zimbabwe elections were free and peaceful and not free and fair? Bouquets And Brickbats * NURSES at Katutura Hospital must stop wearing those big plastic sandals at work because they are not the official working shoes. We want to see you looking smart and beautiful with your full uniform. SMS Of The Day * THIS nation is in dire need of a massive conference on housing. When we experienced a crisis in the education sector a crisis-control brain-storming conference was organised which resulted in the best deal ever for the Namibian child, nam Food For Thought * BOURGEOISIE has become a daily occupation if not the order of the day of the upper-echelons, President Hifikepunye Pohamba we urge you to revisit this unpatriotic geocentricism among your staff and the well-connected, for everybody to r Bouquets And Brickbats * COMMISSIONER of Prisons, can you please explain the strategies you use to appoint officers to certain positions? It is my observation that you are being fed with wrong information then you just promote individuals without making p SMS Of The Day * I THINK Paulus ‘The Rock’ Ambunda lost his belt because of this promoter and trainer. How can a world champion still be training at the Katutura Youth Complex where there is not enough equipment. I think they must follow the example of Ha Food For Thought * NAMIBIA Dairies are unable to match low prices of imported milk and this ultimately means the consumer will have to pay more for local milk. Look at the prices of the local chicken. All these profits are going in the pockets of a few in Bouquets And Brickbats * I AM pleased to hear that Cabinet has responded positively to the proposal of Namibia Dairies to support the industry. The restrictions which support the industry by reducing competition to ensure the survival of the industry is a SMS Of The Day * CEO’s golden handshakes. Somewhere on our statute books there must be a provision that if a board of directors suspends/dismisses a CEO without due regard to legal provision (substantive/procedural law) such board must carry the costs for Food For Thought * JACKY Asheeke was so right with her last column- why are the fathers of the dead children not being prosecuted? (Reference to the children who died in shack fires last week) Our justice system still protects men over women. In this cont Bouquets And Brickbats * ALEXACTUS Kaure, your column in Friday’s newspaper opened my eyes. One hardly finds impartial case study analysers in Namibia. Let’s not destroy the Polytechnic’s strong foundation (Tjivikua) as yet. At least wait until the transf
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NEWS - AFRICA
| 2013-08-05
MDC to challenge vote in court
HARARE - Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) will challenge in court an election victory by President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party which the MDC rejects as a fraud, MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai said on Saturday.
“We are going to go to court, we are going to go to the AU (African Union), we are going to go to the Sadc (Southern African Development Community),” Tsvangirai angrily told a news conference in Harare.
The MDC leader, who has been serving as Prime Minister in a fractious unity government under Mugabe, said his party totally rejected official results from Wednesday’s election showing Zanu-PF winning a massive landslide victory and gaining more than two thirds of seats in parliament.
“We did not lose this election. It is in the imagination of Zanu-PF that they won,” Tsvangirai said, adding that his party would present evidence in court to back its allegations that the 31 July vote was a “monumental fraud” engineered by Zanu-PF.
“I thought this election was going to resolve this political crisis. It has not. It has plunged the country back to where it was,” Tsvangirai said.
The result of the election looks certain to extend 89-year-old Mugabe’s 33-year rule in the southern African nation.
Africa’s oldest leader, Mugabe has governed the former British colony, previously known as Rhodesia, since independence in 1980. It has rich reserves of chrome, platinum, coal, gold and diamonds.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has until today to release the official results of the presidential vote.
Voting on Wednesday passed off peacefully and received broad approval from African observers.
Tsvangirai has already called on the African Union and Sadc to investigate the vote, calling it “null and void” and “not credible”.
But he faces an uphill struggle to convince the regional bodies, as their observers have already publicly endorsed the election as free and peaceful, while acknowledging minor problems.
Western observers were kept out by Harare, and independent domestic monitors have described the vote as deeply flawed by registration problems that may have disenfranchised up to a million people. This includes the lack of availability of an updated voters’ roll, as required by law.
Adding to the controversy surrounding the election, one member of Zimbabwe’s nine-member Electoral Commission, Mkhululi Nyathi, has resigned since the vote, citing doubts about the integrity of the results.
Tsvangirai’s MDC said on Friday it could take to the streets to challenge Zanu-PF’s claim of a landslide victory, made less than 24 hours after the polls had closed on Wednesday. - Nampa-Reuters
“We are going to go to court, we are going to go to the AU (African Union), we are going to go to the Sadc (Southern African Development Community),” Tsvangirai angrily told a news conference in Harare.
The MDC leader, who has been serving as Prime Minister in a fractious unity government under Mugabe, said his party totally rejected official results from Wednesday’s election showing Zanu-PF winning a massive landslide victory and gaining more than two thirds of seats in parliament.
“We did not lose this election. It is in the imagination of Zanu-PF that they won,” Tsvangirai said, adding that his party would present evidence in court to back its allegations that the 31 July vote was a “monumental fraud” engineered by Zanu-PF.
“I thought this election was going to resolve this political crisis. It has not. It has plunged the country back to where it was,” Tsvangirai said.
The result of the election looks certain to extend 89-year-old Mugabe’s 33-year rule in the southern African nation.
Africa’s oldest leader, Mugabe has governed the former British colony, previously known as Rhodesia, since independence in 1980. It has rich reserves of chrome, platinum, coal, gold and diamonds.
The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission has until today to release the official results of the presidential vote.
Voting on Wednesday passed off peacefully and received broad approval from African observers.
Tsvangirai has already called on the African Union and Sadc to investigate the vote, calling it “null and void” and “not credible”.
But he faces an uphill struggle to convince the regional bodies, as their observers have already publicly endorsed the election as free and peaceful, while acknowledging minor problems.
Western observers were kept out by Harare, and independent domestic monitors have described the vote as deeply flawed by registration problems that may have disenfranchised up to a million people. This includes the lack of availability of an updated voters’ roll, as required by law.
Adding to the controversy surrounding the election, one member of Zimbabwe’s nine-member Electoral Commission, Mkhululi Nyathi, has resigned since the vote, citing doubts about the integrity of the results.
Tsvangirai’s MDC said on Friday it could take to the streets to challenge Zanu-PF’s claim of a landslide victory, made less than 24 hours after the polls had closed on Wednesday. - Nampa-Reuters
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