{"id":195597,"date":"2008-06-27T17:41:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-27T22:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/27\/zimbabwe-vote-proceeds\/"},"modified":"2008-06-27T17:41:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-27T22:41:00","slug":"zimbabwe-vote-proceeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/06\/27\/zimbabwe-vote-proceeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe Vote Proceeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And it appears that it&#8217;s not enough that Mugabe and his thugs forced Tsvangirai out of the race, that they are now <a href=\"http:\/\/iht.com\/articles\/2008\/06\/27\/africa\/zimbabwe.php\">using violence to force people into the ballot booths<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><p>In some other suburbs of Harare, the capital, residents said they had been rounded up Thursday night, forced to chant pro-Mugabe slogans until daybreak and then force-marched to the polls. They were told to <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">copy the serial numbers off their ballots so it could be confirmed later that they had voted for their 84-year-old president<\/span>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(<span style=\"font-style: italic;\">emphasis mine<\/span>)<\/p>\n<p>The interesting thing is that I think that I&#8217;m more disgusted with South African President Thabo Mbeki than I am with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe.<\/p>\n<p>As near as I can figure out, Mbeki is Mugabe&#8217;s butt boy because he is afraid that what is happening in Zimbabwe, where the trade union movement became the basis for a popular political movement, will happen in South Africa, where the trade unions have become increasingly hostile to the ANC and its IMF driven cheap labor policies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And it appears that it&#8217;s not enough that Mugabe and his thugs forced Tsvangirai out of the race, that they are now using violence to force people into the ballot booths: In some other suburbs of Harare, the capital, residents said they had been rounded up Thursday night, forced to chant pro-Mugabe slogans until daybreak &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,971,1032,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-195597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-civil-rights","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195597"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=195597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}