03 Aug 2018
In Brief:
Zimbabwe's opposition leader Nelson Chamisa on Friday insisted that
he won the country's landmark election, calling the official results
"fraudulent, illegal, illegitimate and characterised by serious
credibility gaps".
"We won this election and we are ready to form
the next government," Chamisa told a press conference, after President
Emmerson Mnangagwa of the ruling Zanu-PF was declared victor with 50.8%of the vote. - AFP
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa responds to question on Mugabe by saying he doesn’t know if he voted for him. His possible support doesn’t make him an ally
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa says he would not attend Mnangagwa inauguration
03 Aug 2018
On election results as well as SADC, Chamisa says Zimbabwe hasn’t known peace for 38 years. We are back to where we were in 2008
03 Aug 2018
Question on SADC. Chamisa says he is in the process of engaging Cyril Ramaphosa
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa refuses to say when they will be filing a court challenge only saying we have one of the finest legal teams in Africa
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa refuses to reveal his strategy going forward. We must be transparent but we cannot be naked
03 Aug 2018
Journalists are asking Chamisa to share proof of rigging and how he will "fight" Mnangagwa who has police and military on his side
Chamisa: You may think that. We have institutions that support the will of the people
He Continues with the claim that ZEC rigged results and refuses to allow them to verify
03 Aug 2018
Questions and answer session now. A journalist asks what MDC makes of an independent tally by an NGO observer group which corroborates ZEC results.
Chamisa says he doesn’t know what the journalist is talking about. Sticks to his original figure. Has political reasons for not giving final figure
03 Aug 2018
Nelson Chamisa addressing journalists in Harare. (Carien du-Plessis)
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: We do not believe in violence even if we have the capacity to resort to arms
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: We will pursue all legal and constitutional routes because Mnangagwa cannot form a government. Also appeals to international community to support "the credentials of democracy"
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: We are not accepting fake results. We want a proper result to be announced
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa questions turn out rates which ZEC said was 75% for parliamentary results and 84% for presidential
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: When they announce at night they want to give you a darkness result. Their rigging was poor; Mugabe was at least sophisticated. Their numbers don’t even add up
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa claims MDC results show he had 2.3 million votes and Mnangagwa under 2 million
That gives him 56% and Mnangagwa 44%
03 Aug 2018
A camera falls from a window above, starling people. “Don’t worry we are covered by the Holy Ghost” Chamisa jokes
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa says the “outgoing president” Mnangagwa must account for the violence by army
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: ZEC are very malleable and liberal with their futures. Says these don’t add up
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa also mentions examples about what he claims are tampering to ballot boxes and the transport of ballots
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: They inflated Mnangagwa‘s vote, which is why they did not announce by constituency but by province
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: I hope Mnangagwa is open for the business of democracy and transparency
03 Aug 2018
Mnangagwa must allow young men to do their job which they were elected to do
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: We want to advise Mr Mnangagwa if he is a born again let him honour his pledge for free and fair election. He must be honest and sincere
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: We are going to be challenging a number of election results. Already got advise on legality of results
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: the bar of an acceptable election result will not be lowered just for expediency
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa addressing journalists (Carien du Plessis)
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: because we won this election we are ready to form this government
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: A misunderstanding characterised this election. Result is fraudulent and illegitimate
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa claims another victim died last night from the army shooting protesters on Wednesday. This brings unconfirmed death toll to 7
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: Mnangagwa did not win this election. MDC won the elections. We have a tally to prove it. Proper verification of results wasn’t done
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa says there was some disappointment about reports that elections were free and fair
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa thanks Zimbabweans for voting and being tolerant. It’s not easy. Even with their bastardizing we managed to score 2 million votes
He thanks journalists for the coverage
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: if you go around country there is no celebration. Today is a day of morning of a repeat of what we have seen in the past
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: Many of our people had been visited and interrogated for abiding in an election. The thank you we have been getting for taking part in election as law abiding citizens is a thank you of bullets, tanks, guns
03 Aug 2018
Nelson Chamisa addressing journalists during a press conference in Harare. - Carien du Plessis
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa: This is the behaviour of people who lost and not won an election
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa greets journalists and calls this a turning point press conference. If police can do this with press conference, what more with ordinary people, he says. - Carien du Plessis
03 Aug 2018
Zimbabwe's president says the scenes of riot police dispersing
journalists waiting for an opposition briefing "have no place in our
society.
"President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Twitter says authorities
are "urgently investigating" the events as journalists awaited
opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, who has rejected the results of
Monday's election. - AP
03 Aug 2018
Zimbabwean riot police with batons and shields are now leaving after
breaking up a press conference by opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, who
has alleged rigging of the presidential election.
Police chased
away reporters without explanation but ruling party officials are now
urging reporters to attend the briefing. There is no sign of Chamisa. - AP
03 Aug 2018
MDC opposition leader Nelson Chamisa arrives at the Bronte
Hotel in Harare for a press conference minutes after he was broken up by
several dozen riot police armed with tear gas cannisters, as Zimbabwe's
opposition rejected today what it said were the "fake" results of
landmark elections.
03 Aug 2018
Earlier supporters gathered outside told journalists they were ready to shed blood for Chamisa. - Carien du Plessis
03 Aug 2018
Sibanda says he is just going to debrief now and ensure that he is safe - Carien du Plessis
03 Aug 2018
Chamisa walks in to applause. Some supporters come in from outside with journalists. They are now singing - Carien du Plessis
03 Aug 2018
MDC spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda confirms to journalists now press conference is going ahead and Chamisa is now on his way - Carien du-Plessis
03 Aug 2018
Journalists asked to go back into hotel now as police trucks are leaving. Carien du Plessis
03 Aug 2018
MDC supporters are now dancing and chanting around the police truck as police get on and then off again.
The public order act prohibits political gatherings. Police don’t seem to be acting. There is a host of local and international journalists on scene - Carien du Plessis
03 Aug 2018
"I'm told it was apparently a misunderstanding. Police claim to have thought this was a political gathering. Police had to be convinced that this was a press conference and we are now back inside the hotel grounds." - Carien du Plessis
03 Aug 2018
Zimbabwe anti-riot personnel arrive at The Bronte Hotel in
Harare where international journalists and observers are gathered for a press
conference by MDC leader Nelson Chamisa. (AFP)
