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...Opposition presidential candidate Morgan Tsvangirai has fled the country, while 10 opposition activists have been killed and hundreds more injured in post-election violence - and refugees continue to stream across the border into South Africa. Despite growing calls from around the region and the world for the immediate release of the election results, Mugabe appears unmoved. Last Friday he celebrated the 28th anniversary of Zimbabwean independence by aiming his wrath against Britain, the former colonial power, whose bidding he accuses the opposition of doing. "Down with thieves who want to steal our country," he thundered, in his first speech since...
...This is the endgame of the endgame. Checkmate already happened on the 29th of March.' TENDAI BITI, secretary general of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, saying its presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, would not take part in a runoff election against President Robert Mugabe because Tsvangirai won the March election outright...
...This is the endgame of the endgame. Checkmate already happened on the 29th of March.' TENDAI BITI, secretary-general of Zimbabwe's main opposition party, saying it would not take part in a runoff election because its presidential candidate, Morgan Tsvangirai, beat President Robert Mugabe outright in the March contest...
...delay is widely seen as a stalling tactic by Mugabe's Zanu-PF regime to give its "shock troops," government-allied mobs known as the "war veterans," to fan out across the country, seize land and intimidate voters in the event of an eventual presidential run-off. Tsvangirai told TIME this week that what was happening in Zimbabwe was a "de facto military coup." Government spokesman Bright Matonga has countered - with no evidence to support his claims, however - that the veterans are trying to resist a program of land seizures by white farmers crossing into Zimbabwe from South Africa...
...support and empathy from neighboring states in the SADC. Many southern African leaders, such as South African President Thabo Mbeki, are his peers in the African liberation movement. Others, such as Angolan President Jose Eduardo dos Santos, have ruled just as undemocratically, and for just as long. In interview, Tsvangirai told TIME that his talks with SADC leaders had suggested Mugabe's support was evaporating. "Everyone realizes he is a cheat," he said...