South Africans Recruited to prepare Electoral Fraud in the DRC

NEWSPAPER REPORT (OFFICE TRANSLATION)

SOUTH AFRICANS RECRUITED TO PREPARE ELECTORAL FRAUD IN THE DRC, by Keren Kapi

In a press release delivered yesterday at "La Tempête des Tropiques", the honourable Jean Pierre Lisanga made troubling revelations about the credibility of the electoral process. The National president of the "Christian Convention for Democracy" (CCD) notes with reference to reliable sources that 'there will be fraud and manipulation during the elections in order to impose on the Congolese people a candidate who would be at the mercy of the international community in the person of the outgoing President".

Thus the recruitment of Mrs Gugulethu, a South African citizen and in the employ of the Independent Electoral Commission of South Africa until very recently, has been recruited since the month of February as advisor responsible for the electoral campaign of President Joseph Kabila and who, according to Mr Jean Pierre Lisanga Bonganga Sayo, is the key to this fraud. In terms of these revelations, the lady in question leads 128 "personalities" of the same nationality. Almost all of them are former members of the SA IEC and have been allocated to strategic positions, answering directly to Mrs Gugulethu.

Presented as members of a technical assistance team, these South Africans are placed, still according to Mr Lisanga, at strategic positions at the main server for election results and in the local centers for the compilation of electoral results.

The presence of South Africans placed in an institution that should be basically Congolese, is of major concern to Mr Lisanga. Also because of the degree of affinity between the South African President Thabo Mbeki and Jospeh Kabila which could, according to Mr Lisanga, influence the manipulation of results in favour of Kabila.

Faced with real threats of fraud and sabotage in the elections, Jean Pierre Lisanga supports the stance taken by the National Episcopal Conference of the Congo in order to obtain elections that would be truly free, democratic, transparent and peaceful. In the same vein he has invited the population to vehemently oppose any attempt to steer the country to political turbulence.