Dictator Robert Mugabe's downfall was welcomed, but President Emmerson Mnangagwa has proved just as repressive and inept
‘s regime is widely seen as resorting to thuggery and voter fraud to hold on to power, beating opponents, blocking rival candidates from standing and falsifying results.
“This is the worst election I’ve ever participated in,” David Coltart, a former education minister running for mayor of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe’s second city, toldMr Coltart, 65, reels off a list of illegal measures preventing a free and fair vote, including banning CCC campaign rallies, preventing state media from covering the opposition, refusing to make electoral rolls public or publish a list of polling stations, and gerrymandering constituency boundaries.
Nelson Chamisa, leader of the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change , addresses supporters during a campaign rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe on 20 August Mr Mnangagwa, known as “the Crocodile”, earned a hardline reputation as security minister in the 1980s for his role in suppressing rebels in the western region of Matabeleland. Human rights groups say about 20,000 civilians were killed in the crackdown led by the army’s North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade., who had ruled Zimbabwe since its independence in 1980.
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