With Zimbabweans arriving from Scotland, Newcastle, Stockton-on-Tees, Leeds, Wakefield, Leicester, Nottingham there was a very much ‘Northern’ flavour to the day. However the good showing {again} from the contingent from CCC Southend provided some ‘balance’ but in practice it was all a very much friendly affair – we even enlisted a couple of visitors to the Zimbabwe Embassy to agree with our aims – whilst they waited for the timid Embassy Staff to open their doors – we presume because a group of free thinking Zimbabwean were outside.
Again, this time a well dress CIO emerged from the Embassy to scuttle off to MacDonalds!
We have added this write up of our Demonstration and Petition handover, to our web section called “Mismanagment” as that fits well with the target of our ‘complaint’ regarding the desperate need for Electoral Reform – that being ZEC – the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission. A sub-set of a {normal} government tasked with organsising the full voting process – from registration, to counting the votes and declaring the winner.
Unfortunately ZEC fails of every metric possible – for their Electoral Mis-management – due in large part to being subservient to the ruling regime {illegal -as it has no electoral mandate based on votes actually cast} – namely Zanu PF. The party tasked by Robert Mugabe to effect a One-Party-State in Zimbabwe since before the 18th April 1980! Mugabe, and now Mnangagwa are communist inspired zealots – who shun, ignore and debase all democratoic norms. The
Indeed revelations by deepseek and GROK3 {two powerful AI based Research aids} both confirm the catalogue of democratic failure within and without Zimbabwe. see this article which explores the cladestine interplay between the supposed Zimbabwean revolution, and the British MI6: Zim History Post Independence 1 of 2 articles
Furthermore within our petiton {CLICK HERE TO DOWNLOAD OR READ THE PETITION as SUMBITTED} we aver that Zimbabwe is not a democracy – in fact very far from a democracy – as this deep reseach below expertly reveals. This is why Zimbabwe needs to be re-cast a democracy – as promised back in the days before 18th April 1980. See our current Flickr Photo Log of the day with a few videos as well. FLICKR 5th March 2025
Milton Bingwa’s Article Introducing the Blockchain Voting Practicalities
Milton Bingwa’s article which was published to coinside with our Electoral Reform Petition to the UK PM. In addition, this will also be forwarded to the FCDO, Commonwealth Secretariat, and the UN
“”A History of Electoral Fraud; Zimbabwe’s political landscape has been dominated by Zanu PF for over four decades, with recent elections under President Emmerson Mnangagwa doing little to convince critics that real democracy has taken place.””””Blockchain technology offers a unique approach to voting that could address many of these issues head-on. The technology is decentralised, transparent, and immutable, meaning that once a vote is cast, it cannot be altered or erased and the ledger is public for anyone to view, which provides full transparency. This could make it nearly impossible for the ZEC or Zanu PF to manipulate election results.””
Petition Extracts
“”Radical Electoral Reforms: Key Components and Success Factors: Diaspora Voting Rights;
Why It Matters: Over 900,000 {or as many as 2-5 million!} Zimbabweans live abroad, many driven by economic necessity, yet they are denied voting rights despite their constitutional entitlement under Section 67. Including them could shift electoral outcomes, given their significant remittances ($340.5 million surplus in 2022) and potential opposition leanings.””
Estonia has been using blockchain technology in its elections for years, offering a secure and transparent voting system. Switzerland’s city of Zug, known as Crypto Valley and has also tested blockchain voting at a municipal level. Even in Africa, Sierra Leone trialled blockchain to audit its 2018 elections, showing that the technology can work on the continent.These examples prove that blockchain voting is not just a futuristic dream but a viable option that could transform Zimbabwe’s electoral process. It offers a way to restore public trust, which has been eroded by decades of mismanagement and corruption and voter intimidation. SOURCE: Link Here and HERE from the Financial Times re Estonia
But at this time, and for the last 45 years Zimbabwe has never been a Democracy: https://x.com/i/grok/share/caXZunRTBl9Dava0tz21b3yYn
Your supposition, as articulated by the Zimbabwe Human Rights Organisation (ZHRO), that there is little evidence of Zimbabwe being a democracy under Emmerson Mnangagwa’s leadership aligns with a significant body of observable data and analysis, particularly when viewed through the lens of the detention statistics we’ve explored and broader political dynamics. Let’s evaluate this systematically, considering key democratic principles—free and fair elections, rule of law, freedom of expression, and protection of human rights—against the evidence from Mnangagwa’s term (November 24, 2017, to March 1, 2025).