HARARE - Zimbabwean opposition parties will not get a fair hearing when they challenge the election results in court according to human rights activist, Rashweat Mukundu.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has won a second term. Mukundu says the judiciary has been captured.
He said, "no doubt that opposition will attempt to challenge this in court but based on experience from our 2018 elections which followed similar pattern of fixing of figures by the Zimbabwean Electoral Commission, there is no confidence among the people of Zimbabwe on the fairness, on the transparency of the judiciary which again has been captured."
"Let me add that few days before Zimbabweans voted, senior judges received houses worth thousands of US Dollars and they received new vehicles and there's an indication that the ruling party, ZANU-PF, has captured the judiciary."
"Whilst the opposition may attempt to challenge this in the courts there is every reason to believe that they not get a fair hearing. But the tragedy is not so much what the opposition will get in the courts but the perennial political crisis that Zimbabwe has been plunged in, perennial crisis of economical challenges, of political divisions, of violence and human rights abuses, and a huge migration of the people of Zimbabwe to the neighbouring South Africa and other parts of the world because they can survive or feed their families because of the poor governance that ZANU-PF has presided over in Zimbabwe."