BREAKING: Supreme Court orders election by July 31

The Supreme Court has ordered President Robert Mugabe to hold elections by July 31 2013.

Report by Tapiwa Zivira, Online Reporter

Chief Justice Godfrey Chidyausiku made the ruling this afternoon after a Zimbabwean citizen, Jealousy Mawarire, made an application to compel Mugabe to set an election date before the life of the current parliament ends on June 29.

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