Prominent journalist Hopewell Chin’ono has castigated aspiring opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) MPs and councillors for “doing very little to motivate the youths” to register to vote.
Chin’ono noted that since the last election, only 109,405 have registered to vote. With 32,000 dead people having been removed from the voters roll he said only 77,405 have been registered.
“Between 2018 and today, 2 million youths turned 18. Prospective CCC MPs/Councillors are not doing their work,” Chin’ono said.
“The truth is that CCC prospective MPs and Councillors are doing very little to motivate the youths. Serious politicians reach the youths via Tik-Tok, but none of our lot is there.
“They don’t care because they are targeting urban areas where they are guaranteed to win.”
Despite the opposition having a history of winning in urban areas, Chin’ono said if they do not motivate youths to register to vote, they would win but with smaller margins.
“They will win these urban seats and wards but with small margins affecting the Presidential vote.
“But for most of them they don’t care because parliament is a job, and not service.
“If Nelson Chamisa doesn’t do something drastic, he will lose because of his team’s failure!
“CCC should be a citizen movement which throws away the ‘…we were there when it started…’ nonsense which has crept into CCC from the old MDC.”
The investigative journalist further stated: “We are not fighting for useless candidates to replace a group of useless Zanu-PF MPs and councillors. Zimbabwe needs REAL CHANGE
“We are not interested in photographs of prospective MPs and Councillors in communities, we want to see the numbers of registered voters going up.
“Hakainde Hichilema didn’t post pictures at all, we saw the registered voters going up and we knew that it meant change was coming to Zed!”
He said any prospective and current MPs or Councillors “who don’t want to hear this truth are not only USELESS, but as bad as Zanu-PF.
“Citizens should not babysit old people and be afraid to call them out. We are fighting for a better Zimbabwe and not to help people to the feeding trough.
“Any serious and genuine prospective or current MP or councillor would not have a problem with being told the truth unless they are a mere useless job seeker!
“Job Sikhala is in jail today for fighting for a citizen’s rights.
“Why can’t you just mobilize youths to register?” Chin’ono added.
Every Zimbabwean has the right to campaign and influence a change of zanu government so let’s work together no one should expect things to be done by others
It’s not an easy road . Mugoni wepwere ndoasinayo . I advised him to jump into the political train he will get the experience needed and give the energy required
Every able bodied and right minded citizen must play the role of a mobiliser. This thing of expecting someone or some people to do it for us is absolutely wrong. Moda kuti mangwana vazoti ndisu takakusunungurai kubva kuZanupf like the war vets are doing now? Lets all own this struggle and lay equal claim to a future new Zimbabwe together.
Hon Isaac Butholezwe Mutasa You are right
Hon Isaac Butholezwe Mutasa 100% correct 💯.
Hon Isaac Butholezwe Mutasa thats true
Hon Isaac Butholezwe Mutasa mwachewe Zimbabwe became new on 18 April 1980 until My Lord Jesus Christ comes back . Hakusisina imwe new Zim , ichibvepi. Zvenyu zvekunyeperwa ne ma puppet politicians muchibvuma, forget and be real . Indeed we freed zimbabwe from the rabid racists and thieving colonialists, ko kunyepa here . We did our part. You can’t reinvent the wheel mubhoyi…
Tim Changai Why then do you talk of a second republic if republics cannot be regenerated. No one is saying the country was not fought for but it was not fought for by the so-called war vets alone. Our parents cooked and bought provisions for them. Most of these war vets are even fake, 42 years down the line they are still being vetted. What bullshit is that? A new Zimbabwe is a new system of governance,not this mess you people are doing. You can swear all you want that it will never happen,Smith said the same shit and went.Mugabe said the same and went and so shall you. Take that to the nearest bank. You talk of puppets yet ypu are mortgaging our country to China and even giving back land to whites. What shameless hypocrisy!
Its senseless to vote , 2018 we voted chamisa and no one defended our vote ….no kushandiswa 2023 will be home unregisterd citizen
Milton Milly Dick usadaro shaa
Milton Milly Dick not voting is in reality voting … it’s better to vote and raise your voice like yu are doing now
Milton Milly Dick The reason elections are lost is that people are not voting in large numbers.Records indicate Harare Province Hre,Ruwa, Chitungwiza,Norton only has less than 900k people registered as of June 2022.At least more than 1million more eligible voters are not registered.Now,how does the opposition expect victory when people in Cities and towns don’t even register to vote?.You can’t defend votes that are not there. Yes you voted bro,but you were very few.Now instead of not voting you need to convince those around you to register to vote and actually vote in 2023. Imagine if all those who voted in 2018 can get at least two people to vote in 2023.It means Chamisa’s 2,6 million will triple and that’s how elections are won.
That’s true
Milton Milly Dick chinonzi democracy unochiziwa here Hama. Hazvirewi kana vaka vhotera puppet chamisa murivashoma otonzi ahwinha kwete mubhoyi the majority votes takes the crown kwete zvenyu zve election denial. People were so so traumatized by the same whites who created MDC now ccc and you think they are stupid enough to vote for them under pretext of puppet chamisa. Nooo. Nada. Never . Kwete… Everyone knows who is behind chamisa and his cabal especially those in farms and rural areas where 68% of patriotic masses of zimbabwe live…. The 2023 elections are just a formality my boy…
CCC inenge isiri serious
Ngakuve ne drive. Fambai ne mota ine maspeaker nemusic muchitaura zvakanakira kuregister, kwete kungoda kuzovona wava muhofisi, its not automatic
Apart of hopewero, Wamba, Fadzai, Sikhala band Biti… Hapana CCC
𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗼𝗻𝗼 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗳𝗲𝗮𝗿 𝗼𝗿 𝗳𝗮𝘃𝗼𝘂𝗿, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀𝗲 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗖𝗖𝗖’𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗻 𝗮𝘄𝗮𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 2023.
Its called constructive criticism
77000 new registered voters. And there is zanu pf doing well mobilizing people to register. Wonzwa umwe achiti 2023 anopinda mukomana.
All these #registertovote have no impact. Social media and elections are two different things
Nhamo ndiyo ichatituma kuno register asi kana matunduvara nhamo garayi makadaro
100perc correct
This has been the norm with these opposition candidates only their presidium does the campaigning ivo vari planning on how to upgrade their lives when they get in to power. Tongovazivira pama posters tozovaona pa celebration ku local command center.
Esimon Wa Chiomadzi even kuzanu kwacho its the same tinongovaonera muma poster vazhinji vacho
Chamisa also must copy from Julius Malema. Not seat back and relax. We’re fighting for CCC, they’re not fighting for citizens back
He is right they are sleeping on duty
You can say that again, according to my point of view,they just want to be in the system and not change the system.
Ndipo chaipo
Chin’ono is against incompetence. When he hammers members of ruling party for same you should give him credit and stop attacking him and calling him puppet of the West