The debacle involving the candidates for our elections continue to mount, and I am getting a sense of despair from friends and relatives back home.
Funny, the interest generated by Makoni does not seem to have lasted more than a week. Is it a good sign or shock, that the announcement of a candidate can draw a damp squib on what should be already a politically volatile nation?
The mind boggles. I am forced to predict a reinactment of the various phases of elections in Zimbabwe. As we get closer, ZANU PF will get pretty much violent, and the other people will begin to cower and count their opportunity costs before stepping out to go and vote.
The astute tones of unveiled violence and threats are coming out in the press statements made by good old Morgan in South Africa, and, instead of spreading his manifesto he has taken to making a swipe at the other candidates for the electoral race.
People will not vote in an environment where they feel distanced from the decision making process. We are not a part of the system, and therefore we are not going to make any change.
Thus pretty much of the population will see march 29 as a day in passing. No one will go to vote because it will change nothing.
