ZEC : first six seats announced

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1. ShowsOn
   March 31st, 2008 11:17
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   Is this story accurate? It says the count is now 12 seats each for Zanu-PF and MDC:

   http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23461825-23109,00.html

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2. tariro
   March 31st, 2008 11:38
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   Confirmed also on radio in Joburg. It never seems to stop raining. So what next? Can we really afford another 5 years?

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3. tariro
   March 31st, 2008 12:17
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   The 11am bulletin on SABC- SAFM announced the seats split between MDC and ZANU. Mid-day news MDC leading though no official figures. To quote ZEC, this is a very complicated election.

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4. Paul From Zim
   March 31st, 2008 12:58
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   What a surprise – the ZEC results show MDC and ZPF “neck and neck”. Looks like Cde Bob is heading for his 57% “win” (as announced prior to the whole farce). Wake up Zimbabwe, or don’t complain when you have him for another 5 years!

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5. This is Zimbabwe reader
   March 31st, 2008 13:01
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   Rumours fly as Zimbabwe bloggers wait impatiently – agency

   By Marius Bosch of Reuters news agency.

   Bloggers mixed wild rumours with gallows humour on Monday as Zimbabweans waited on tenterhooks for the result of the most crucial election since independence.

   The opposition MDC and ruling ZANU-PF were running neck-and-neck in first parliamentary results issued by the electoral commission, 36 hours after polls closed.

   Many bloggers shared opposition suspicions that the delay meant President Robert Mugabe was trying to rig the result to extend his 28 years in power.

   “Across the country Zimbabweans agree that the MDC has trounced ZANU-PF but they don’t believe (correctly) that this automatically translates into Mr Mugabe handing over the keys to State House, and his black Mercedes,” wrote a blogger called Bev Clark on http://kubatanablogs.net/kubatana/ — an online community of Zimbabwean activists.
   Even in cyberspace the tension of waiting for the results began to tell.

   “It’s late and if I watch (MDC secretary general) Tendai Biti making the same comments on the same report they have been running since this morning I am going to do grievous bodily harm to the next person who walks through the door,” one blogger wrote on thisiszimbabwe http://www.sokwanele.com/thisiszimbabwe/ Writing on Sunday, poet Samm Farai Monro, better known as Comrade Fatso, told on his blog http://comradefatso.vox.com/ of wild rumours flying around the capital Harare.

   “The streets are waiting. We woke today to rumours of Mugabe fleeing to Malaysia and news of the MDC press conference. We carried our bababarazi’d (hungover) selves to the conference after a night of ragga at downtown Harare’s Tube Nightclub. According to the MDC’s counting process they are way ahead in the polls. Victory is on people’s lips. But so is rigging”.

   CRUMBLING ECONOMY

   Zimbabwe’s crumbling economy was also widely discussed. Clark described searching for an Easter egg in Harare, where most shop shelves are bare. Official inflation is more than 100,000 percent and the currency is virtually worthless.

   “A hunt like you’ve never seen before — I stopped at three supermarkets where there were no eggs of any kind, no bread, no milk. In fact not much of anything at all. What we do have on our shelves are very expensive South African imports when what we need are reasonably priced Zimbabwean products. Instead of an Easter egg I bought a packet of Simba Mexican Chili chips for Z$100 million ($2)”, Clark wrote.

   Many blogger comments on the Botswana-based news website http://zimbabwemetro.com related to fears that the elections may be rigged.

   “I want to say to Mr Mugabe, this is your perfect time to say goodbye,” said comments by “Snoopy”, a Zimbabwean living in Australia.

   “You can leave with a small amount of dignity if you leave now rather than no dignity at all in the next few weeks when there will be blood on the streets if you steal this election and again tell the people you do not care … Go now Bob.”

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6. BM
   March 31st, 2008 13:11
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   This just in from zimbabwe journalists website 11.45am:

   Biti said the results so far announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) were still tallying with theirs. ZEC has announced 24 constituencies with MDC and Zanu PF sharing the spoils.

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7. BM
   March 31st, 2008 13:17
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   Website for above info:

   http://www.zimbabwejournalists.com

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8. tariro
   April 1st, 2008 10:56
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   SAFM news highligh at 10h55 this morning, MDC leading with 56 seats and ZANU trailing with 53. I wonder why they are keeping this 50-50 ratio. Who is fooling who here? But frankly, Zimbabweans, what are we going to do should Mugabe steal the elections as he is poised to do?

   Go to war, accept the defeat and wait for 2013?

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9. NUST
   April 1st, 2008 14:16
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   l think this results are being cooked.we can’t wait anymore.mugabe must go.we are not worried who will be the MP we need a new president.from

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