Innocent Mujeri
In a shocking revelation, the Harare Post has uncovered a scheme designed to discredit the actual results of the recent Zimbabwean elections.
Investigative efforts by the Harare Post have found evidence of an illegal parallel voter tabulation that was being conducted by the Zimbabwe Election Support Network (ZESN) and the Election Resource Centre (ERC).
The Harare Post learned that the results of this illicit tabulation were intended to be published in Zambia today before the official announcements by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC). Shockingly, these results would have falsely favoured Nelson Chamisa, making the public believe he was the winner.
It was unearthed that before ZEC could announce the official results, Zambia Today started disseminating fake results on their website.
At one point, their website claimed that Chamisa was leading with 51.24 percent, a blatant contradiction to the final tally, which declared President Mnangagwa the winner with a majority of 52.6%.
During investigations by this publication, it was noted that Zambia Today was a publication aligned to the Zambian government.
In a related twist of diplomatic intrigue, a member state of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) sought to convene an extraordinary summit focused on Zimbabwe. This attempt was, however, swiftly halted by vigilant regional bloc member countries, who perceived it as a concealed ploy by the European Union (EU) to undermine Harare’s sovereignty.
Adding to the controversy, Dr. Nevers Mumba, Head of the SADC Election Observer Mission and former Zambian Vice President, has drawn criticism for allegedly discrediting the just-concluded Zimbabwean elections.
Further intensifying the debate is Dr. Mumba's alleged covert handover of the SADC Electoral Observation Mission (SEOM) report directly to the CCC. This allegation was seemingly corroborated by the opposition party’s spokesperson, Mr. Promise Mkwananzi, who is currently in exile. Such a handover breaches the SADC's stringent guidelines on election observation and the ethics of impartiality required of observer teams.
