SAME ZIM REGIME, JUST DIFFERENT DESPOT

DEMOCRACY and dictatorship cannot be equal. US Congresswoman Karen Bass, a member of the foreign affairs sub-committee on Africa and one of the election observers in Zimbabwe’s elections praised the election for being non-violent.

She urged new President Emmerson Mnangagwa to respect human rights and the opposition’s right to protest. We had hoped for change for a long time. That’s one of the reasons why the elections were non-violent.

The inquiry into the killing of protesters by the military is the right thing to do and should’ve been done automatically.

The judicial system should’ve been shouting the loudest, but the system is subversive and crooked.

Questions should’ve been asked about who gave the order? Surely someone gave the command to shoot. It would be wrong, according to army rules, for a soldier to go rogue.

That soldier should’ve been outed and held to account according to the law. The propaganda system is still in place.

The MDC’s Tendai Biti is still fighting prosecution. Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s rally was banned and their leaders, members and activists kept under surveillance.

Chamisa said an unmarked car was seen wherever they went.

Bass says she doesn’t like her president, Donald Trump, but the difference is huge. He was democratically elected. In Zimbabwe, the same regime remains in power, but has a different dictator. Mnangagwa and his proxies might fool the West but not Zimbabweans. ISAAC CHAWASARIRA | England