Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe Vows To Step Down If Defeated

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has said he will quit after 33 years in power if he loses Wednesday's election. "If you lose you must surrender," the Zanu-PF party leader said. His remarks came as Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party accused Zanu-PF of doctoring the voters' roll. Zanu-PF denied the accusation, saying it was the responsibility of the electoral comm ...

Responding to a question from the BBC, the president, who was in a jovial mood, said he would step down if he lost and insisted that there had been “no cheating”.

But the MDC has said the electoral roll released on Tuesday by Zec dates back to 1985 and is full of anomalies.

“You cannot have a voters’ roll given to you less than 24 hours before an election,” Jameson Timba of the MDC told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme.
“The voters’ roll in itself is in total shambles. We’ve got a good number of duplicate names,” he said.
“You’ll find that a person is registered twice – same name, same date of birth, same physical address and a slight change is made to that person’s ID number.”
Zanu-PF’s Bright Matonga denied allegations of vote-rigging, saying the MDC had play
Zanu-PF’s Bright Matonga denied allegations of vote-rigging, saying the MDC had played a part in the compilation of the electoral roll.