Chamisa attacks harbinger of a more violent 2023

THE 2008 run-off elections pitting former President Robert Mugabe and MDC founder Morgan Tsvangirai (now both late) witnessed violence on an unprecedented scale.

Mugabe had been outpolled by his great rival, Tsvangirai, who however, did not garner enough votes to avoid a run-off and the stakes were high, possibly his political life and the continued existence as a force to reckon with on the political arena of his beloved Zanu PF party which had lost its parliamentary majority for the first time since independence in 1980.

And so, he unleashed the party militia on suspected MDC supporters. 

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