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Are general elections in Africa cursed?

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MANY people across the African continent are asking this question: Are general elections held in Africa cursed?
The short answer to that is: No!
In this article we are going to show why we should all take ‘no’ for an answer.
But first, we must look at why people have been made to think that general elections in Africa are cursed.
This takes us on a long journey to a number of countries across Africa where general elections have been held in recent times.
We will start by visiting the countries that held their elections this year.
There were general elections in Angola a month ago.
The Angolan general elections were held in an atmosphere of tranquility and everyone judged them free and fair.
However, the opposition in that country, led by the late Jonas Savimbi’s party are now demanding that the votes which were cast in those elections be recounted.
They are alleging there were election ‘irregularities’, whatever that means.
From Angola we go to Mozambique who held their elections fairly recently.
Once more, the elections there were held in an atmosphere of peace and calm as well as being declared free and fair. But the opposition RENAMO party has expressed dissatisfaction with the way the elections were held.
And so RENAMO has gone back into the jungle from where they are unleashing violence on the innocent people of Mozambique.
We leave the former Portuguese colonies and go to the former British ones.
We land in one of the former star British colonies in Africa — Kenya.
This beautiful country also recently held its general elections.
Again they were held in a peaceful atmosphere.
At the end of the elections the ruling party, KANU, of President Uhuru Kenyatta won the elections and he, Kenyatta, too won the presidential elections.
Then while the winning political party was busy celebrating their victory, a political earthquake which almost shattered the political Richter scale struck.
President Kenyatta and company were told that they had in fact not won the elections because the general elections’ results had been tampered with through what was called ‘hacking’.
President Kenyatta was then ordered to hold new elections in 60 days.
Unbelievable!
From Kenya we go to North Africa and we land in Egypt.
There, general elections were held not so long ago.
A group called the Moslem Brotherhood won.
They got into office for a short while but their hold on power was challenged.
In the end they were overthrown and the military took over.
We leave poor Egypt and go to West Africa and we land in Gabon where elections were held less than a year ago.
The opposition is said to have won the elections, fairly.
But in a sudden twist, the incumbent president claimed victory for himself.
Violence broke out and a good number of people were killed.
While still in West Africa we should not forget that in recent times, a mini- civil war took place in the Ivory Coast when general elections went sour.
In the end, something akin to a military coup took place, with the French troops joining the mayhem.
Lastly we visit the southern tip of Africa – South Africa.
That country held its general elections in 2014.
Soon after the elections, everyone, including the opposition parties, accepted the outcome of the elections – a win by the ANC led by President Jacob Zuma.
Then three years later, the opposition parties led by a party called the Democratic Alliance (DA), a white outfit, suddenly decided that they did not want the results of the 2014 elections and so began pushing for the dissolution of Parliament and removal of the incumbent President Zuma.
Presently, everyday that passes sees the DA leadership pursuing, doggedly, one agenda – the removal of the ruling party, the ANC, from power through the nullification of the 2014 election results by any means necessary.
Here at home in Zimbabwe, whenever the ruling party ZANU PF wins general elections, the opposition parties never accept the results, even when Western handlers of the MDC-T for example have no problems with the polls.
Can there be any wonder then that people end up thinking African general elections are cursed?
Especially when general elections elsewhere are never rejected by the opposition.
For example, the present French President, Emmanuel Macron, won the elections in France recently, the opposition never said the elections had been rigged.
They accepted the results of the elections, full stop.
The same goes for the elections held in Britain a few months ago which were won by Theresa May’s party, the Conservatives.
Nobody in the opposition said May and company had rigged the elections — nobody!
But when it comes to Africa, the outcome of general elections are never accepted.
Why?
The answer, dear reader, lies with the former colonial masters.
We have said it before.
We say it once again.
The colonial masters have never left their former colonies.
Never!
Whoever thinks they left the scene is mistaken. They are still here, alive and kicking.
They are the powers behind all the noises and trouble associated with Africa’s general elections.
The former colonial master wants in office a leader who dances to their tune.
Someone not difficult but docile, who looks after and protects the interests of the former colonial master, the proverbial ‘chimbwasungata’ – puppet.
Yes, that is the type of African president they want.
Take RENAMO who are always making noise and trouble around general elections in Mozambique, for example.
RENAMO is wholly funded by imperialists.
And so when they make noise and trouble, it is their masters who are the real troublemakers.
These people want RENAMO in power so they can loot the natural resources of Mozambique without any hindrance.
Recently, the Al Jazeera news channel broadcast a shocking story about French intelligence’s interference in general elections in former French colonies, mostly in West Africa.
The story said, French intelligence hand-pick the person to become president.
This is then followed by a ‘fake’ general election in which the hand-picked individual inevitably ‘wins’ the elections.
Trouble starts if the majority of people don’t want the hand-picked individual and so vote for somebody else.
However, since the general elections would be manipulated in favour of the hand-picked individual, the people’s choice will end up losing the elections.
This will then bring about the noise, trouble and violence which has become familiar on the continent.
A week or so ago, people in southern Africa were shocked to hear one Musi Maimane, ‘leader’ of the opposition DA in South Africa, say at a press conference, where he was accompanied by the Zambian opposition leader Hichilema Hikainde, that the time had come for opposition parties in southern Africa to remove from power liberation movements.
Maimane is only a mouthpiece of white supremacists.
Therefore it is no surprise to see Maimane and company feverishly wanting to remove the ANC from power before the elections are due.
We can predict that the forthcoming South African elections are going to be full of trouble because the former colonial master wants the ANC to go.
What is happening is frightening and African patriots should be on their guard.
Elections in Africa are not cursed but interfered with by the former colonial masters.

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