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Original Post Date: 2002-03-11 Posted By: Jan
From the News Archives of: WWW.AfricanCrisis.Org
Date & Time Posted: 3/11/2002 5:43:05 PM
Zim Election 3rd Day Opens After Delays & Chaos
Source: The Mail&Guardian, March 11, 2002.
Lines of hundreds of people had formed outside polling stations in the capital’s populous townships, but they failed to open on schedule at 7am (0500 GMT) as electoral officials received conflicting instructions.
Voting finally resumed four or five hours later, according to opposition officials and press correspondents touring the capital.
A polling station in the working-class suburb of Kuwadzana was among the first to reopen, with voting starting at 11:10 am (0911 GMT), witnesses said.
A few hundred people were waiting there to cast their ballots following a chaotic weekend during which masses of would-be voters were deterred by mile-long queues.
A voter in Kuwadzana said some people were either too tired to show up early Monday or had to go to work.
Meanwhile, Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa announced that the Zimbabwe government had abandoned plans to appeal against a High Court ruling that extended voting in the country’s crucial presidential elections for a third day.
“I am no longer going ahead with the appeal as I had indicated earlier as it will add confusion,” Chinamasa told Ziana news agency. “I think we want to avoid confusion.”
Chinamasa told state radio earlier Monday that the government had agreed to extend voting for a day in the capital Harare and the satellite city of Chitungwiza.
The announcement followed a High Court order late Sunday to extend the vote at the request of the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
The justice minister had vowed Sunday to appeal against the ruling, which is a blow to President Robert Mugabe.
The court ruling followed two days of chaotic voting in Harare, where heavy turnout and a cutback in the number of polling stations in the city produced queues of thousands of people on Saturday and Sunday.
The MDC claimed that Mugabe had deliberately reduced the number of voting centres in Harare to delay balloting in the capital, the MDC’s main stronghold. – Sapa-AFP