94/26
I was walking down the street this morning with a friend when I saw some graffiti, scrawled on the back of a road sign. The numbers “94/26″ had been scrawled in bright red letters. When I looked a little puzzled my friend said, “You know what that means, don’t you?”
I confessed to being rather ignorant and he explained, “That is the size of the MDC victory. The MDC actually won 94 of the 120 elected seats in parliament, and ZANU PF only 26. ZANU claimed a two-thirds majority but that is a sham. Leaving aside the massive vote rigging that went on, they only won 26 seats.”
“I knew about the vote rigging,” I said, “but I didn’t realize it was on that scale. So MDC in fact thrashed the ruling party?”
“Exactly!” said my friend said with a broad grin and a five-fingered salute for the party.
