The farm workers who reside near Zanu (PF) Bindura South winning parliamentary candidate Remigio Matangira’s farm told The Zimbabwean that, at one of the polling stations in the farming community MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai got 20 votes.
It is the 20 votes that the militia are saying should be accounted for, and their suspects are the farm workers.
“They are saying we should confess and tell them who we voted for on Wednesday .They are threatening us with death, saying they are now in charge of the government,” said one of the villagers whom we cannot name for her security.
“As far as we know we all voted for the Zanu (PF) councillor, Matangira and President Robert Mugabe because that is what they told us to do. In fact they have been always telling us that we should vote Zanu (PF) if we still want to reside on the farms we are working at, and for them to accuse us of selling out the vote is unfair and cruel. We strongly believe that the 20 votes which went to MDC-T were cast by polling officers, observers or the police officers who were manning the election,”another elderly woman narrated.
A local observer at the polling station confirmed that farmers were being in bused and assisted to vote.
“We were equally shocked on election day. Matangira’s militia could come with people some of them as old as our grandmothers using tractors. What these voters could ask the polling officers was the face of President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu (PF) logo on the ballot and nothing else,” said the observer.
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