Date: Sun, 25 Jun 2000 00:04:51 -0700
To: "Zimbabwe Crisis Mailing List":;
From: Zimbabwe Crisis
Subject: ZimCrisis#66 -- Election Bulletin #2 -- Report from Harare
Cc: "NG organisations":;, "African press":;
Hi everyone,
An election report from Harare.
Craig
My wife and I had planned to vote at midday on the first day of voting but changed our mind when we heard about the large queues. My friend queued for 3 hours.
We decided to brave the dawn and awoke on the second day of polling at 05:30. We had breakfast and met our 5 workers in our car park at 6:45 am.
We all arrived at the polling station at 6:57 to find a mixed black and white crowd of about 20 in an orderly queue. Promptly we started to move forward at 07:00. After presenting our ID our hands were scanned to ensure that we had not previously voted and then we passed on to be checked that we were on the voters roll. As to be expected this was a mess. Although they had split the roll into 4 separate sections, there was no sign the indicate what part of the alphabet was included in each location. This meant a disorganized scramble to find where to go, I found mine after waiting my turn at 2 others.
The rest went fairly smoothly. Everyone that was voting was cheerful and chatty and the mood was one of cautious optimism. One of my workers that had recently returned from leave in the rural areas told me that 'no one is going to vote for ZA_NU (PF)'. On the day before the election my wife reported that a shop attendant had told her that 'after the election they will give Mu_gabe 15 minutes to get out of the country. Everyone here is very angry with him. At this point in time we are all very positive about the outcome of the election but uncertain about how Mu_gabe will react to his defeat.
Sorry about the '_'s, the purpose of this is to defeat any word search eavesdropping.
Craig
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To: "Zimbabwe Crisis Mailing List":;
From: Zimbabwe Crisis
Subject: ZimCrisis#66 -- Election Bulletin #2 -- Report from Harare
Cc: "NG organisations":;, "African press":;
Hi everyone,
An election report from Harare.
Craig
My wife and I had planned to vote at midday on the first day of voting but changed our mind when we heard about the large queues. My friend queued for 3 hours.
We decided to brave the dawn and awoke on the second day of polling at 05:30. We had breakfast and met our 5 workers in our car park at 6:45 am.
We all arrived at the polling station at 6:57 to find a mixed black and white crowd of about 20 in an orderly queue. Promptly we started to move forward at 07:00. After presenting our ID our hands were scanned to ensure that we had not previously voted and then we passed on to be checked that we were on the voters roll. As to be expected this was a mess. Although they had split the roll into 4 separate sections, there was no sign the indicate what part of the alphabet was included in each location. This meant a disorganized scramble to find where to go, I found mine after waiting my turn at 2 others.
The rest went fairly smoothly. Everyone that was voting was cheerful and chatty and the mood was one of cautious optimism. One of my workers that had recently returned from leave in the rural areas told me that 'no one is going to vote for ZA_NU (PF)'. On the day before the election my wife reported that a shop attendant had told her that 'after the election they will give Mu_gabe 15 minutes to get out of the country. Everyone here is very angry with him. At this point in time we are all very positive about the outcome of the election but uncertain about how Mu_gabe will react to his defeat.
Sorry about the '_'s, the purpose of this is to defeat any word search eavesdropping.
Craig
Zimbabwe Crisis Mailing List
http://www.niner.net/zimcrisis
This is currently a manually administered mailing list. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send your request to DELETED. Personal requests for removal will be carried out immediately. Requests from governmental, political or press organisations (or their representatives) will be treated less favourably. The purpose of this list is not necessarily to redistribute published news reports. Rather, it is intended to distribute reports from or directly affecting people in Zimbabwe. If you have seen something before, I apologise. Hopefully that will not be a regular occurrence.
Brief list of helpful sites on the issue:
- Zimbabwe Crisis Mailing List Archives -- http://www.niner.net/zimcrisis
- Comprehensive news updates -- http://www.1freespace.com/beetee
- Offers of and requests for help for Zimbabweans -- http://pub9.ezboard.com/boffersofhelp
- Commercial Farmers' Union -- http://www.mweb.co.zw/cfu
- Movement for Democratic Change -- http://www.in2zw.com/mdc
- Zimbabwe Democracy Trust -- http://www.zimbabwedemocracytrust.org
- BSAP Pursuit of Zimbabwean Criminals -- http://www.bsaphq.f9.co.uk
