After two months of intensive rallies and flashes of political violence that claimed at least one life, Zimbabwe will hold by-elections on Saturday to fill 28 parliamentary and 121 hundred local government seats. | CdeLENIN
Rounding up his last star rally for Zanu-PF in Chitungwiza on Thursday, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said that in July 2018 they voted for crooks who were anti-Zimbabwean and that they should correct that.
It was not a smooth road for the recently rebranded Citizens Coalition for Change , led by Nelson Chamisa. Their last star rally in Epworth in Harare on Thursday was initially blocked by the police. It took a court challenge by the CCC to get the police to overturn their earlier declaration. A Zanu-PF election officer, speaking to News24 on condition of anonymity, said his party pulled out all the stops to have rallies, even in areas where it had no strong support base.
At one point, the CCC had to go online to raise about R80 000 for local dancehall musician Ricky Fire to perform in all the party's star rallies. In December last year the party raised R2 million to buy a bulletproof car for Chamisa to use after his Toyota Fortuner was allegedly shot at during a campaign in Mutare in November.
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