If vote rigging is successful and Mugabe takes all, MDC-T will certainly call the election null and void. Then the stand-off begins. The army and ‘friendly’ observers are likely to support Mugabe, but will Britain the EU and the USA? To coin a phrase: the events unfolding are conducive to creating the perfect storm. – Mike Rook, Surrey
Post published in: Letters to the Editor
29.7.2013
13:44
Explosive elections
EDITOR - The fuse is now burning and sizzling towards an explosive Zimbabwe election result. Eight million ballot papers have been printed, well in excess of the population count. The registered voters, plus the known unregistered younger citizens, plus those who departed the scene one way or another, comes to a total that is about two million more than the adult population.