{"id":196568,"date":"2008-04-14T16:39:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-14T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/14\/zimbabwean-high-court-refuses-to-force-release-of-election-results\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T16:39:00","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T21:39:00","slug":"zimbabwean-high-court-refuses-to-force-release-of-election-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/04\/14\/zimbabwean-high-court-refuses-to-force-release-of-election-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwean High Court Refuses to Force Release of Election Results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition is now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.news.com.au\/story\/0,25197,23538785-2703,00.html\">calling for a general strike as a result<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of note, there is also talk of a recount, which appears to be outright vote theft in an attempt to screw with the parliamentary results too.<\/p>\n<p>For what it&#8217;s worth, if there is a villian in all of this outside of Mugabe and the ZANU-PF, it&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sabcnews.com\/africa\/southern_africa\/0,2172,167616,00.html\">South African President Thabo Mbeki<\/a>, who appears to be doing his level best to aid and abet the vote fraud in Zimbabwe.<\/p>\n<p>I think that part of this is the sentiment among Mbeki and the ANC that as a &#8220;revolutionary&#8221; Mugabe is one of them, and part of this is being driven by electoral concerns: They are concerned that the principle of the democratic defeat of a revolutionary leader might at some later date be applied to the ANC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition is now calling for a general strike as a result. Of note, there is also talk of a recount, which appears to be outright vote theft in an attempt to screw with the parliamentary results too. For what it&#8217;s worth, if there is a villian in all of this outside of Mugabe and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1095,1000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196568","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196568"}],"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=196568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196568\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}