Voting started at 0700 hours with scores of people emerging to cast their votes.
“We were anticipating a rate of 50 people per hour but since we opened at exactly 0700 hours there have been an average of 150 to 200 people voting every hour so far,” said a Returning Officer at one of the polling stations who spoke on condition of anonymity.
At around 0600 hours Zanu (PF) Political Commissars were moving around houses urging people to go and vote but were not saying whether to vote “No or Yes”.
Generally, the atmosphere here was calm while all polling stations are manned by police with every individual casting his or her vote peacefully.
Each polling station has three voting booths and an average of eight Referendum Officers being led by a Returning Officer.
Harare South constituency is one of the Zanu (PF) strongholds due to residential resettlement exercise that took place during Garikai/ Hlalani Kuhle in 2006 in Retreat Farm, Hopley Farm, Stoneridge Park, Ushewekunze and Southlands, when homeless people were allocated housing stands by the party.
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