ZANU PF plans to put stickers on members’ houses

Posted by on Monday, November 19, 2012 in ZANU PF, Zimbabwe politics | 10 comments

ZANU PF supporters could be identified by a sticker on their houses

Staff Writer
19 November 2012

It was reported over the weekend that ZANU PF plans to mark its members’ houses with stickers during the coming elections, as was done during the last census, for easy identification of its supporters.

The independent NewsDay newspaper said the provincial chairman for ZANU PF in Masvingo, Lovemore Matuke, told party supporters it was mandatory for every supporter to have the sticker for “easy identification”. Matuke was addressing a ZANU PF inter-district meeting held at Masvingo Teachers’ College last week.

“You are supposed to have stickers at every household so that we identify you. Our real supporters should have them wedged at their places. If you do not have that sticker at your place, you will be skipped,” he said.

ZANU PF is saying that those with stickers on their doors would get freebies, in return for votes ahead of next year’s elections, others believe there is a more sinister plot behind the planned exercise.

A journalist in Masvingo told SW Radio Africa the whole exercise was meant to intimidate people into buying ZANU PF cards for protection.

However our Harare correspondent Simon Muchemwa said the plan also has its dangers in that the same stickers could be used to identify ZANU PF activists by MDC supporters.

‘It works either way. It can be used to intimidate people from the MDC or the same people from the MDC can use the house stickers to easily identify ZANU PF members in for retaliatory purposes. I don’t think this is a good idea at all. It builds tension unnecessarily,’ Muchemwa said.

  • Chimbwido Warvet

    And what is wrong in identifying one’s supporters? I am almost certain Tsvangirai would also like to know his support base.

    • bafoon basher

      shut up oppresive halfhead.

    • Dominc Kadenge

      So “warvet”

      During the struggle….,

      Which sector did you train in?
      Who was your instructor?
      Which weapons were u trained to use?
      Who were ur comrades in training?
      Which sector were you deployed to?
      Who were ur comrades there/ sector commander?
      Where were u demobilised?
      What was your war time alias?

      • Chimbwido Warvet

        Of what relevance is it to issues under discussion above? And besides, I do not know you to the extent of giving you my personal and confidential details. Perhaps, we could start the process by you telling me all about yourself. I am sure if you provide your details to begin with, only then will I be able to open up.

        • Dominc Kadenge

          Saka “warvet” how is it you cannot even answer one of my questions…is it because the truth is you are NOT a warvet AT ALL??!!Liars are revealed hundit??

          • Chimbwido Warvet

            You can provide the details I have asked for and wait for the feed-back bluz. Otherwise, hapana chaunobura kubva kwandiri shaz.

          • Chimbwido Warvet

            A man with real degrees – and in what? If you have real degrees why don’t you argue your case as a learned and educated person? Why show emotions instead of reason? The other day I asked you a number of questions you have not answered. Are you now ready to answer the following I have already posed elsewhere:-
            (1) Is it not true that the CIO and the Director General CIO are two separate legal entities?
            (2) Or better still do you agree that the CIO is a legal persona?
            (3) What is the difference between the above legal concepts?
            Put your views on the table and answer the above as concisely and precisely as you can to show the real degrees you have. If you answer these questions, then perhaps I will know the level of your understanding and we can take our discussion a step further.

  • Anonymous

    I did not know that ZANU(PF) party is so stupid. How can it put a rubbish, stupid, uneducated man like Lovemore Matuke. This uneducated man is drafting a way of intimidating voters to join ZANU(PF). I edge all MDC(T) supporters to go and buy all those cards so that they can serve themselves from being beaten by this losing party.Matuke will never ever win any contest because of his little knowledge. Let me remind him that MDC(T) has more intelligent people than ZANU(PF) , so you are wasting your time planning such childish tactics.

  • GBZ

    They are trying to copy the day of “Passover” when the Lord God told Moses to tell His people, the Jews to paint the blood of a lamb on the doorpost of their houses so that the angel of death would pass over them and not kill the first born of every family. It is quite obvious that Mugabe also wants to pass over his thugs and brutes and leave them the bitter stolen fruits of the Marange diamond fields and other stolen property which he cannot account for and the lust and love for mammon is going to sink him and all his cronies, and when Mugabe gets to the Red sea he will learn that his god cannot separate the waters and his past will catch up to him fast and he will be destroyed, he and his murderous generals and his Happytons and Chihuri”s, and his Munangagwas and no doubt Obert too, and a string of others. Be aware of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords! It says in Psalms 33:16
    16 No king is saved by the size of his army;
    no warrior escapes by his great strength.
    17 A horse is a vain hope for deliverance;
    despite all its great strength it cannot save.
    18 But the eyes of the Lord are on those who fear him,
    on those whose hope is in his unfailing love,
    19 to deliver them from death
    and keep them alive in famine.

    20 We wait in hope for the Lord;
    he is our help and our shield.
    21 In him our hearts rejoice,
    for we trust in his holy name.
    22 May your unfailing love be with us, Lord,
    even as we put our hope in you.

    Psalm 37: 1-11

    1 Do not fret because of those who are evil
    or be envious of those who do wrong;
    2 for like the grass they will soon wither,
    like green plants they will soon die away.

    3 Trust in the Lord and do good;
    dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
    4 Take delight in the Lord,
    and he will give you the desires of your heart.

    5 Commit your way to the Lord;
    trust in him and he will do this:
    6 He will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn,
    your vindication like the noonday sun.

    7 Be still before the Lord
    and wait patiently for him;
    do not fret when people succeed in their ways,
    when they carry out their wicked schemes.

    8 Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
    do not fret—it leads only to evil.
    9 For those who are evil will be destroyed,
    but those who hope in the Lord will inherit the land.

    10 A little while, and the wicked will be no more;
    though you look for them, they will not be found.
    11 But the meek will inherit the land
    and enjoy peace and prosperity.
    God Bless Zimbabwe. Jesus is Lord

    • Chimbwido Warvet

      Mapererwaka blaz mavakutaura zva Mwari na Jesu wamusakamboona. You see, I have been looking forward to seeing Mwari na Jesu since I was born over fifty years ago but I am continuously bombarded with the view that I will only see them when I die. Is it logical and rational that I should continue in believing this nonsense. Why should I only see these two when I die and not now? And who wrote the Bible you have quoted above and when was that? All academic literature I have read in my lifetime are attributed to someone else but the Bible which is highly academic is not. Why is that? Is someone playing games here?