{"id":76884,"date":"2023-04-18T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T08:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gold-mafia-al-jazeera-documentary-wont-influence-voting-patterns-analysts"},"modified":"2023-04-18T13:03:20","modified_gmt":"2023-04-18T11:03:20","slug":"gold-mafia-al-jazeera-documentary-wont-influence-voting-patterns-analysts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.cc\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gold-mafia-al-jazeera-documentary-wont-influence-voting-patterns-analysts","title":{"rendered":"Gold Mafia Al Jazeera Documentary Won\u2019t Influence Voting Patterns \u2013 Analysts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. <\/strong><\/span>Political analysts say the Al Jazeera \u201cGold Mafia\u201d documentary which exposed alleged gold smuggling and money laundering by individuals who named-dropped President Emmerson Mnangagwa may not have any impact on voting patterns in forthcoming general elections.<\/p>\n

In a recent interview with NewZimbabwe.com, political researcher Alexander Rusero said Gold Mafia trended on social media platforms but a greater part of the electorate was not on those platforms. Said Rusero:<\/p>\n

As much as you cannot downplay the role of social media in electoral politics, Zimbabwe\u2019s political balance of forces is still pretty much offline, and not online.<\/p>\n

The country\u2019s political gravitas is offline. Online discourses, exposes on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube where this documentary has been popularized remain elitist in the current scheme of things.<\/p>\n

There is nothing much. I would not want to go into the documentary\u2019s shortcomings but to then say, people would change their voting patterns or perception will be desperation.<\/p>\n

This documentary can actually bolster Mnangagwa\u2019s position in terms of loyalty in his party (ZANU PF); in terms of the Haves and Have Nots etc.<\/p>\n

Another political analyst, Eldred Masunungure told the publication that corruption by the elites has been normalized and as a result, the Al Jazeera documentary did not induce enough shock to alter voting patterns. Said Masunungure:<\/p>\n

Because corruption has been routinized in the country, there is not enough shock attendant on the \u2018Gold Mafia\u2019 expose\u0301s and therefore the impact on voting intentions may be muted.<\/p>\n

The impact of the \u2018Gold Mafia\u2019 documentary depends on multiple factors, one of which is that the revelations are not entirely new except that people\/voters did not have solid, irrefutable evidence as was provided by the documentary.<\/p>\n

The corruption in the country, especially involving the ruling elite, has been so embedded and systemic that most Zimbabweans have become numb to the pervasive problem.<\/p>\n

The other vital factor is the extent to which the revelations have been published beyond the urban areas and beyond the more politically sophisticated block of voters.<\/p>\n

Is there a critical mass of politically conscious and alert citizens who can speak truth to power in the ballot box?<\/p>\n

The Gold Mafia documentary exposed an alleged series of gold smuggling gangs in Southern Africa that help criminals launder hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

The gang members get rich while plundering their nations and keeping millions in abject poverty.<\/p>\n

They use gold to turn dirty cash into clean, seemingly legitimate money for those with large amounts of unaccounted wealth.<\/p>\n

The criminals do so by using a complex web of companies, counterfeit identities and fake documents.<\/p>\n

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Africa-Press – Zimbabwe. Political analysts say the Al Jazeera \u201cGold Mafia\u201d documentary which exposed alleged gold smuggling and money laundering by individuals who named-dropped President Emmerson Mnangagwa may not have any impact on voting patterns in forthcoming general elections. In a recent interview with NewZimbabwe.com, political researcher Alexander Rusero said Gold Mafia trended on social […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":76882,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[1493,2189,3867,4131,14199,14423,14473,14548,19],"class_list":{"0":"post-76884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-all-news","8":"category-economy","9":"tag-africa-press","10":"tag-africa-press-zimbabwe-2","11":"tag-alexander-rusero","12":"tag-eldred-masunungure","13":"tag-gold-mafia","14":"tag-gold-mafia-al-jazeera-documentary","15":"tag-gold-mafia-documentary","16":"tag-gold-mafia-episode-4","17":"tag-zimbabwe"},"yoast_head":"\nGold Mafia Al Jazeera Documentary Won\u2019t Influence Voting Patterns \u2013 Analysts - zimbabwe<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Political analysts say the Al Jazeera \u201cGold Mafia\u201d documentary which exposed alleged gold smuggling and money laundering ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gold-mafia-al-jazeera-documentary-wont-influence-voting-patterns-analysts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gold Mafia Al Jazeera Documentary Won\u2019t Influence Voting Patterns \u2013 Analysts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Political analysts say the Al Jazeera \u201cGold Mafia\u201d documentary which exposed alleged gold smuggling and money laundering ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gold-mafia-al-jazeera-documentary-wont-influence-voting-patterns-analysts\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"zimbabwe\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-04-18T08:25:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-18T11:03:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/sites\/14\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681797342.18.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1280\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gold-mafia-al-jazeera-documentary-wont-influence-voting-patterns-analysts\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/zimbabwe\/all-news\/gold-mafia-al-jazeera-documentary-wont-influence-voting-patterns-analysts\",\"name\":\"Gold Mafia Al Jazeera Documentary Won\u2019t Influence Voting Patterns \u2013 Analysts - 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