With the elections in Zimbabwe little more than a week away it is already clear that the results will be rigged. Members of the military have been filling in multiple postal votes and the voters’ roll is in a shambles. The opposition has been denied access to the mass media and no election monitors are being admitted from the West, which has been feeding millions of people left starving by Mugabe’s murderous rule.
There will be two media events – at 11.00 am and 15.00 pm – which will demonstrate how the elections are being stolen. They will feature the human rights activist Patson Muzuwa, who has appeared on the West End stage, and Fungayi Mubhunu, wearing the Mugabe mask he wore at a demonstration in Lisbon against the attendance of Mugabe at the AU/EU summit last December.
The mock elections are organised by the Zimbabwe Vigil, which has been demonstrating outside the Embassy every Saturday in support of free and fair elections since October 2002.
For further information contact Vigil Co-ordinators Rose Benton (07970 996 003) and Dumi Tutani (07960 039 775).