“Who is auntie Blair?â€
March 31st, 2005
The funniest and most encouraging things I’ve heard this week are: 1) lots of people are asking “Who is auntie Blair?”- having a go at ZANU PF’s big “Anti-Blair Campaign”. And 2) Village headmen who have been telling villagers that they need to line up behind the headmen in the polling booths have apparently been told: “we’ll line up, but we’re
going to need 2 lines: one for you headmen and another for all the rest of us!”
A story that encapsulates many aspects of things happened yesterday: a young white Zimbabwean friend of mine was driving past a group of party activists that looked like they were putting up MDC signs on a wall, so my friend slowed down and greeted them with the open palm salute of the MDC, accompanied by the slogan “Chinja!”. Much to his surprise and consternation, the group was actually ZANU-PF youths that were taking down the MDC signs! But although they began cursing him vehemently and he drove off in a frightened hurry, that was the end of the incident, which in past elections he would have been lucky to escape without serious injury.
