Update: Elections in Zimbabwe and YodaBeesh is Debunked!
Hello kind readers! Earlier in the week, I had a posting about the elections in Zimbabwe and made a prediction that the opposition candidate would be dead by Thursday. Ok, so I was wrong.
My favorite quote from the article:
Yet in the towns east of Harare, it was difficult to find voters who acknowledged being supporters of the ruling party. Even a man walking down the street in a ZANUPF T-shirt said it did not reflect his political preferences. It had been given to him the night before, said the man, who declined to give his name. "It's free," he said. "It's an extra T-shirt."
Now that is PROOF positive, that people LOVE tchotchkies!
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UPDATE!!!!! (8:39am, 3/31/05)
As I was searching for a nice picture online of "voting in Zimbabwe", I came across another article re. the elections from Reuters. Well, I actually wasn't that off about the opposition candidate being knocked off. Now, I can't say that this other opposition guy was killed off, but he is missing (not the same thing):
On Thursday, however, the MDC said one of its candidates in its southern Matabeleland stronghold had disappeared after an attack by ZANU-PF backers on the eve of the poll. The MDC said Siyabonga Malandu disappeared from his Isinza constituency 90 miles northeast of Bulawayo.
So who knows... my YodaBeesh prediction may yet be fulfilled! Here's to the new "powderkeg" of Africa...
My favorite quote from the article:
Yet in the towns east of Harare, it was difficult to find voters who acknowledged being supporters of the ruling party. Even a man walking down the street in a ZANUPF T-shirt said it did not reflect his political preferences. It had been given to him the night before, said the man, who declined to give his name. "It's free," he said. "It's an extra T-shirt."
Now that is PROOF positive, that people LOVE tchotchkies!
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UPDATE!!!!! (8:39am, 3/31/05)
As I was searching for a nice picture online of "voting in Zimbabwe", I came across another article re. the elections from Reuters. Well, I actually wasn't that off about the opposition candidate being knocked off. Now, I can't say that this other opposition guy was killed off, but he is missing (not the same thing):
On Thursday, however, the MDC said one of its candidates in its southern Matabeleland stronghold had disappeared after an attack by ZANU-PF backers on the eve of the poll. The MDC said Siyabonga Malandu disappeared from his Isinza constituency 90 miles northeast of Bulawayo.
So who knows... my YodaBeesh prediction may yet be fulfilled! Here's to the new "powderkeg" of Africa...
posted by YodaBeesh at
8:39 AM
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