Pic by Hardlife Samuwi. There are long queues with people complaining, saying ZEC officials are being slow. People are voting smoothly. Only one person was turned away for having an invalid ID. He says he believes everyone is going to vote by end of day today regardless of of the long queues, especially in Mt Pleasant.
Morgan Tsvangirai and wife Elizabeth Macheka. Picture by Hardlife Samuwi. Elizabeth Macheka. Photo by Herbert Moyo. By am, there were less than 20 people waiting to cast their votes in at Bulawayo PolyTech, city center branch. Some potential voters were turned away mainly for trying to vote at the wrong wards. People casting their votes in Goromonzi. Photo by Hilary Maradzika.
Long queues started forming at Jahunda Hall and Spizkop Terminus at 8am. By 9 am only 46 people had voted and of the 46, four had been assisted to vote. There are claims that the first hour was dedicated sorely to Police voting. About frustrated voters saying they have been here since 4 am. Voters queuing at Hopley Farm, Harare South. Voting going on smoothly SoutherneyeZim. Voting in Harare.
Both the young and elderly were part of the aspiring voters. Easy voting for farmers. Voting started on a positive note here. Mutumwa Mawere in Belvedere queuing to cast his vote. Voting started at at Sakubva Beit Hall and by , 45 people had voted and only one turned away.
But also in Harare Central, , at David Livingstone Primary School, a man failed to vote because his name did not appear on the voters roll yet he has voted since and amazingly his children in the same residential area are on the same voters roll.
There is a bit of delay at Chitsere Primary in Mbare as people are queuing at the wrong polling station. People are blaming Zec for failing to put the ward number at the entrance. Huge queue at Marimba Shopping Centre in Belvedere. The same situation in Kuwadzana Extension, people showing all the patience at the slow pace.
Smiles all around as people patiently wait to vote. The man in front of the queue says he arrived at 4am. People who woke up early to cast their votes in Mbare. About 15 people have been waiting for 2 hours to cast their vote in this crucial election. He was a professed communist who was committed to turning Zimbabwe into a one-party Marxist state.
After defeating the white-minority rule in the country that was once called Rhodesia, Mugabe saw himself as the supreme leader, and his party, the Zimbabwe African National Union ZANU , as the only legitimate political authority in the country.
Over 20, people perished in that conflict. According to Foreign Policy Magazine, what Zimbabwe desperately needs are structural reforms including tax simplifications, labor and product market deregulation, and privatization of money-losing state-owned enterprises.
Above all else, Zimbabweans must find a way to restore the rule of law and respect for property rights.
And the majority of Zimbabweans have been suffering. By 9 am only 46 people had voted and of the 46, four had been assisted to vote. There are claims that the first hour was dedicated sorely to Police voting. About frustrated voters saying they have been here since 4 am. Both the young and elderly were part of the aspiring voters. Easy voting for farmers.
Voting started on a positive note here. Voting started at at Sakubva Beit Hall and by , 45 people had voted and only one turned away. But also in Harare Central, , at David Livingstone Primary School, a man failed to vote because his name did not appear on the voters roll yet he has voted since and amazingly his children in the same residential area are on the same voters roll.
There is a bit of delay at Chitsere Primary in Mbare as people are queuing at the wrong polling station. People are blaming Zec for failing to put the ward number at the entrance. Huge queue at Marimba Shopping Centre in Belvedere. The same situation in Kuwadzana Extension, people showing all the patience at the slow pace. Smiles all around as people patiently wait to vote. The man in front of the queue says he arrived at 4am. About 15 people have been waiting for 2 hours to cast their vote in this crucial election.
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