The seed of conflict

As the constitutional referendum took place on the 16th March 2013, both the ruling party, Zanu-PF and opposition party, the MDC are intensifying intimidation and campaigning before the elections scheduled in July 2013. One of the most powerful methods of currying favour with potential voters in a country wreaked with severe drought and hunger is the issuing of farming supplies and food.

In this footage, various meetings are recorded in which both Zanu-PF and the MDC use the promise of farming supplies to loyal and often desperate supporters in a bid to secure votes in the scheduled elections in July.

In a country that was once hailed as the “bread basket” of Africa, many believe the political influence of the ruling and opposition parties has ironically created the humanitarian food crisis they claim to be able to solve through the sparse distribution of farming supplies, particularly maize seeds.

Further questions are also being raised as to where the political parties are getting the supplies used in the campaign as there is a huge shortage nationally that has required humanitarian organisations to intervene by supplying food supplies, some say the same that the parties are using to gain votes for the upcoming election.

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