Tensions mount as Zimbabwe election looms
President Robert Mugabe’s branding of opposition supporters as traitors rang out repeatedly on state radio, raising fears of new political violence as his party and its main rival held rallies two days before parliamentary elections.
Voters will tomorrow choose 120 members of Zimbabwe’s 150-seat parliament. The president appoints the remaining 30 seats, so the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change would need to win 76 seats for a majority.
