Chief Justice Luke Malaba upheld the declaration by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) and declared Emmerson Mnangagwa as the duly elected president of Zimbabwe. Chief Justice Malaba dismissed Nelson Chamisa’s court application with costs saying the decision was unanimous.
Below are some of the reactions to the Constitutional Court judgement:
https://twitter.com/philchavars65/status/1032997001800155137
The people was robbed! pic.twitter.com/qCpjZScJqD
— Prof Jonathan Moyo (@ProfJNMoyo) August 24, 2018
With how much percentage did #ED Mnangagwa win this elections?
50.8
50.67
50.59 take your pick & STOP asking irrelevant questions, figures ain't FACTS! Welcome to the New Dispensation #ElectionPetitionZW— LynneM 💕💝💎 (@LynneStactia) August 24, 2018
MDC should just take it's L and be supportive to the "new/incoming" government!! Nyange dai aka winner Chamisa was gonna have a hard time with just a 1/3 occupancy in Parliament!very sad! #ConCourt #ElectionPetitionZW
— Rudd (@Matt_0_9) August 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/KwazikoBulawayo/status/1032997578735005696
One day, the bird will learn to fly and find freedom.
— Alex T Magaisa 🇿🇼 (@Wamagaisa) August 24, 2018
Congratulations Pres ED Mnangagwa & your competent legal team. The nation must now concentrate on working together to build our great country. At the end of the day whatever the outcome had been, Zimbabwe must emerge the winner!
— Sabhuku Temba P. Mliswa (@TembaMliswa) August 24, 2018
https://twitter.com/Batanai_Sa/status/1032993543994990597
I am not a lawyer, but this is a monumental misapplication of the law! Worse from the CJ. It will go down in history as the judgement that removed any pretense of judicial independence in Zim.
— Izzynhema (@issynhema) August 24, 2018
I guess this generation will have to make a lifetime task of entangling Zimbabwe from the jaws of those who don’t have the interests of the people & future generations at heart. We must continue to fight hard to win the battle for the soul of this nation.
God bless Zim 🇿🇼
— Fadzayi Mahere🇿🇼 (@advocatemahere) August 24, 2018
To all the people out there who chose to believe & dream that a better Zimbabwe is possible, here is a BIG SHOUT OUT to you. Indeed, you are heroes & heroines of this struggle. It was not in vain. We shall continue building from here until we get through. We shall get through.
— Patson Dzamara (@PatsonDzamara) August 24, 2018
Why are we not engulfed in celebration mode like we did when Bob resigned? #ElectionPetitionZW
— peace&courage (@vonaimunakiri) August 24, 2018
You can cheat an election but you can't cheat the economy#ConCourtdecides #ElectionPetitionZW
— Dj Larry (@_djlarry) August 24, 2018
To those who might be planning on applying for sanctions i SAY NO TO THAT. They affect every Zimbabwean on the ground. #ElectionPetitionZW
— Tajamuka-Sesjikisile (@Tajamuka) August 24, 2018
"It is enough that the people know there was an election. The people who cast the votes decide nothing. The people who count the votes decide everything." — Joseph Stalin.
— Brezh Malaba (@BrezhMalaba) August 24, 2018
Irregardless of the outcome from the constituitional court of Zim lets all Zimbabweans from different political parties unit and move forward in building our beloved country and shame the european countries who want to destroy our copuntry by imposing sanctions which will affect old and young innocent Zimbabweans
Sure, I concur, please let’s move together as a country, regardless of political affiliation. Please, let’s express ourselves with one voice, no sanctions for Zimbabwe please, they may be said to be targeted but they affect everyone. Let’s soldier on good people and live in the will of God.
Makorokoto President ED!! I knew you would do it! Kubatana is a fallacy saka imi chingoitai what you have to do, i. e. Kutungamirira nyika newanhu wayo as God allows you to. I urge you to continue with the clean up you started. Yes, God is in it. Blessings to you and your team Your Excellency.
I wonder if justice is mainly worried about following procedures only or its about eliminating corruption? They only stick on law and forget to defend the will of the people whose votes were stolen.
In everything rhat the MDC said nothing made sense to them. They continue saying u didnt use the right procedure , u didnt follow what the law say but how about the truth about several corrections and verification?
Kurota nekurotomoka kunotenderwa in a democracy. Nokuvukura kunotenderwa. Asi zvapera. Mavukura zvakakwana. Ngatichishanda kuvaka nyika…..isu tichingotonga.
You don’t have to insult others. At the end of the day we are all Zimbabweans. You just have to work hard to earn a living like those people vaurikuti vachingovukura.
I did not mean to insult anyone. I am fed up of the incessant noise. There was all the noise about overwhelming evidence (which turned out to be nonexistent) and how the court would overturn the declaration. Now that the court has said no credible evidence was presented we continue to hear noise. We need to move on.
@ Gamatox please take it easy, dont be fed up at least you had faith and we need someone to tease here, but there are those of us who are angry at ZEC for sailing too close to the wind by testing opposition strength in the manner they did. Cheating must be done in wholesale proportions as Mugabe and Mudede used to do. After Munangagwa you can expect a deluge. Move on yes but you must watch your back.
And so the circus continues. Did we really expect justice when your relative is forced to vote for ZANU out there against their will… When corruption goes impunity when the same ministers doing the same bull in the sheer position
The most disappointing comment from that list is Fadzayi Mahere. Beautiful, confident&cocky, educated but—-not really learned. Oh hell i’ll just say it—- Fadzayi is just shallow– plain and simple. She is particularly disappointing bcz at face-value one expects a lot from her—- like a over-promise and under-delivery. her comments reflects the shallow idea that the younger generation(herself included), should wrestle power from the older generation. This an oversimplification of life and inheritance which you would expect her to have a firm grasp—- there has to be a continuity with the young gradually learning the many pitfalls of statecraft a fundamental part of which is the ability to deal with and accept defeat gracefully. As a lawyer you would think she would get a good handle on this—i mean actually GET IT!— and then she opens that beautiful mouth and a lot of smelly staff pours out! She is so raw and a nagging doubt starts at the back of the neutral observer about how bona fide are her qualifications in the first place?!
I will tell you what is disappointing having to live for decades under a government of incompetent baffoons who will ignore the fact they are incompetent. A generation that demands respect but does not deserve it. A generation that fought a war against oppressors only to become oppressors. A generation that sneers and condescends but yet cannot fix the economy, cannot stop corruption or even deliver basic services like water. A generation that rides on FUDs and ignorance. Yes I guess one day we will succeed in wresting power from you goons. Because try as you may we will never accept you as our saviours. We refuse to acknowledge your legitimacy let that burn in your hearts. We hate you as much as slaves hated their slave owners. Nothing you say can ever make us love you.
You need urgent psychological help—-psycho alert!—-Ngomahuru—-Ingutsheni!!!
I dont see anything plain or shallow in Fadzai’s post that would cause you to loose your marbles that fast. “I guess this generation will have to make a lifetime task of entangling Zimbabwe from the
jaws of those who don’t have the interests of the people & future generations at heart.
We must continue to fight hard to win the battle for the soul of this nation.”
Her “guess” is just as good as that of Magaya or Makandiwa or yours its not a prophecy hey! Like all young people Chamisa included, she wishes for a “task of entangling…” and desires to “continue to fight hard…..” the “battle of the soul of the nation” while she does say what the soul is you can make a secondary guess for which no Concourt will bludgeon you for. your ” Beautiful, confident&cocky, educated but—-not really learned.” characterization is weird in its obscene revelations but to say she is “plain and simple” is perhaps to fall on your knees. To accuse the younger generation of sharing the “shallow idea” is like to self castrate, suicide. you have no reason what so ever to stand in the way of a child’s dream. “Statecraft” is something you can acquire from civil servants, what school of it did Robert Mugabe go to in 1980? Your desire and resignation
to access to her or her services reveals thus “As a lawyer you would think she would get a good handle on this—i mean actually GET IT!—” if you thought she was a Venus. You round up by hiding behind a “neutral observer” afflicted with a “nagging doubt” is this not casting aspersions and exposing your own mala-fides come on Awesome are you this depraved or its just a bout of an ugly fit induced by political excitement of the pfee pfee household.
Fadzayi Mahere is detached and aloof from reality thats why she feels that ‘the soul’ of the nation can be possessed or owned hence it can be ‘wrestled’ from someone. Generalising every person in the current govt as beyond the pale is also another textbook idealisation and altruism which no lawyer worth his/her salt would ever make/aver. I do not cast aspersions on her career, she does all that by her own shallow utterances. Ultimately, for, you, apropos is this statement: “to those who understand, no explanation is necessary and to those who dont, no explanation is possible” GOT IT? IF NOT WORRY NOT—–
….fellow zimbabweans ….the Justice system has minimum performance requirements when matters are decided evidence ….evidence and evidence accompanied and guided by due process are a must…lawyers know that ….we have seen and know of many cases where accused persons were discharged from allegations because of lack of evidence…now that there is a definitive outcome lets put shoulder to the wheel and tackle the socio-economic challenges afflicting our country…
It would have been a sadder day if CJ and his Concourt Crooners had judged Chamisa the winner with that mirage of evidence. His best way out is to sue that semi-blind advocate of his for taking him for a ride with no evidence. simply put this was a fishing expedition that has left eloquent Chamisa with a big political concussion.