`Enough of corruption, enough of poverty, enough of brutality, enough of Zanu-PF'

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: June 19, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

AT AN exuberant final rally yesterday before next weekend's parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe, the leader of the main party challenging Zanu-PF's 20-year grip on power confidently predicted victory, saying that President Robert Mugabe was "history" and that he "does not love the people of this country, only power".

Firm in his belief that only mass election-rigging or a low turn- out can prevent a win for his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Morgan Tsvangirai told 16,000 supporters in a Harare football stadium: `'Zanu- PF is rotten and should be thrown away. We met here a year ago to ...

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