The Insider

The campaign manager for the Movement for Democratic Change- Mutambara candidate during the 2008 elections complained to United States embassy officials that the votes that Vice-President Joice Mujuru got for the Mt Darwin West constituency was “dubiously high” for the support that she had.

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South Africa’s former ambassador to Zimbabwe Kingsley Mamabolo, who was Pretoria’s special envoy to the Great Lakes, said he believed there was some truth in President Robert Mugabe’s statements that his votes were undercounted by Zimbabwe Electoral Commission officials in the 2008 elections because some of the officials were among the many ZANU-PF members who were “jumping ship to the MDC”.

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The Herald reported a week after the 2008 elections that five Zimbabwe Electoral Commission officials had been arrested for allegedly tampering with electoral results and prejudicing Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front presidential candidate Robert Mugabe of 4 993 votes.

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Arthur Mutambara and his secretary-general Welshman Ncube, both beaten in the general elections, promised to back Morgan Tsvangirai in the presidential elections run-off if he provided their faction with government positions and ambassadorships.

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African National Congress President Jacob Zuma’s advisor Mo Shaik said the international community should not expect Zuma to resolve the Zimbabwe crisis after the indecisive elections of 2008.

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The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front which lost its parliamentary majority in the lower house to the Movement for Democratic Change made some amends in the Senate where it won 30 of the 60 elected seats but analysts said this was only going to delay but not stop legislation.

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African National Congress President Jacob Zuma’s advisor Mo Shaik said there was nothing Zuma could do about the indecisive 2008 elections in Zimbabwe except wait and see.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said he had won the 29 March elections outright but he was prepared for a runoff provided it was held 21 days after the announcement of the results.

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Although the Southern African Development Community and the Pan African Parliament observer missions said the 29 March elections had been credible they were disturbed by the delay in releasing the results as this was part of the election process.

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The United States embassy ruled out a Morgan Tsvangirai victory and a government of national unity in the 2008 elections arguing that President Robert Mugabe could announce himself the winner or the election would have no outright winner with a run-off most likely.

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