The accreditation “bungle” affected journalists as well.

But the Pan African Parliament’s information officer Khalid Dahab said

members of its 19-member observer mission were accredited until April 10.”I would assume that is the expiry date,” he said from Zimbabwe where the

mission was deployed in all 10 provinces.Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) official Eddie Cross shared Moyo’s concern.”They don’t do things like this casually,” he said. However, he said the

foreign observers would be too few to make a difference in a country nearly

the size of Texas, which had 9000 polling stations. More than 1400 observers

had been accredited.He had harsh words for the Southern African Development Community’s (SADC’s)

150 observers. “SADC observers seem to be incredibly naive. They don’t

understand what’s going on the ground.