I read your story Zimbabwe: Recession Slows Election Results with utter dismay at your deliberate attempt to exonerate a political regime that seeks to regain power through hook and crook. While I appreciate that the recession is a factor to the general slow nature of progress to government projects and that in most cases it has resulted in a stand still in almost operations, i don't agree that it has any significant contribution to the delays in collating data that has been processed at the polling stations throughout the various constituencies of the country. In any case, the Zimbabwe government is known to mobilize resources wherever the party is set to benefit. Because this time they see the impending loss of power, they are dilly-dallying and hiding behind the veil of accuracy. There is defintely no doubt that there are a lot of alternatives being hatched, weighed and negotiated behind closed doors because the party and its stalwarts are under pressure, and they do not want to pre-empt the alternatives by delaying the announcements of the results. It ia also true that there are deliberate changes to the ballot figures to resu of ballots set to resuscitate the political lives of certain ZANU PF members. The said meetings bewteen Mugabe and the military are a clear indication that something is brewing around the Harare areas of Chancellor Street, Police General Headquarters and KG VI. They cannot just fathom the idea of leaving power and face the whip. And they will definitely face it: lose the farms, looted irrigation equipment, tractors and combined harvesters. shortages of fuel is not an issue because the elections had been budgeted for many months before they were held. Gono had released the money. Questions of shortages of resources are out because the ZANU Pf is good at allocating resources where its future is. I find some of your information very inaccurate and grossly exaggerating the nature of the problems at hand. We are questioning here the delay in the publications of results, not counting ballots or collecting counted ballot papers. Ballot shortages could have been a matter if we question the pace of the voting process, not the release of results. To send results from the polling stations does not require lorries and truck loads, its just names and figures authenticated by the responsible polling officers. While most people in the diaspora rely on the websites such as yours, the article you wrote is unreliable and it seeks to present the delays as genuine and reasonable. It is time you scurtinise some of the issues I raise here and see things in a different light. That may better inform concerned and genuinely concerned members of the public.

I have heard of nonsense , crap and "bullshit" in my life but this article takes the oscars. If the "ruining) Zimbabwean government got the other results collated (even with the voting being done under moonlight), why couldn't they collate the Presential one?

Please Zimbabweans, and indeed the world, you can doubt that the sun will shine but never doubt the callous man involved in all this. I have two hypotheses.

First is that Bob and his goods are buying time to pack and disappear into the night. Maybe take their valuables, transfers monies bs properties somewhere safe. Dubai would be a good choice (but poor Grace would not be able to dress in style as there is strict dress code). that makes a lot of sense.

Second is that Mugabe and his crew are just running scared and are shitting themselves. Now that might ake more sense since I saw my 75 year old ex-combatant uncle dressed up in army combats on telly la t night. (Yes, he is the one who got 3 compensation lumpsums, a "farm near Norton) and was given a car for his loyalty to Zanu! Unfortunately he cannot drive and the near service station near Kasango is 75 kilometers away. If he had petrol he might have helped Transport some of the results.

Just ke my article sounds like nonsense, crap and bullshit, so does the idea that Presential results are being delayed by Recession. ZEC said they are trying to meticulously modify them.

Am off to church now and my prayers will be with all Zimbabweans. I will ask God to make Bob know that " The time hath come".