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Zimbabwe: Fear versus democracy

Zimbabweans living in South Africa returned in droves earlier this year to vote; this time many are unlikely to make the trip for the second round runoff for the presidency on 27 June between President Robert Mugabe, leader of ZANU-PF, and Morgan Tsvangirai, of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), because they are resigned to a Mugabe "victory".


Tsvangirai was detained by the police twice last week. (Image: IRIN)
In elections on 29 March, the ZANU-PF party lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since independence from Britain in 1980, and Mugabe trailed opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai in the presidential vote. But Mugabe, an 84-year-old former guerrilla fighter, has insisted he will not leave State House, regardless of the outcome of the runoff.

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[9 Jun 2008 13:21]

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