President Emmerson Mnangagwa


The people of Zimbabwe go to the polls on July 30. Will the elections be free? This question may have to be put to president Mnangagwa who is anxious to win his own mandate and unlock foreign investment and diplomatic support.

The 75-year-old president had masterminded the fall of Robert Mugabe from power last November.



Now, the main opposition party has raised concerns over “ghost voters” before the elections. One can say that the people are rightly worried.

The inclusion of voters aged 141 and 134 on Zimbabwe’s electoral roll is causing concerns that the country’s first vote of the post-Mugabe era may not be particularly free.

It has also been discovered that more than 100 voters are sharing a single identity number and registered at one address. This was after a court ordered the electoral roll to be made public.