Zimbabwe At last, all prepare for elections

From: New African | Date: March 1, 2008| Author: Sasa, Mabasa | Copyright information

After the huff and puff of recent months, Zimbabwe's unified elections are due on 29 March, and the opposition is not staging a boycott as it threatened. And, as Mabasa Sasa from Harare reports, there is even a "new" face on the cards, Dr Simba Makoni, a "dissident" from the ruling Zanu PF party who is running against his former boss, President Robert Mugabe.

With polls to elect a president, parliamentarians and local government councillors due at the end of this month, Zimbabwe's poli...

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