Let the people speak

TODAY is a historic and significant day in Zimbabwe’s body politic as it provides the country’s estimated 5,6 million registered voters an opportunity to elect their new leadership for the next five years.

After all the euphoria associated with election campaigns has died down, the onus is now on Zimbabweans across the political divide to sift through all the messages and political innuendos they were fed on to pick their choice among the record 23 presidential and thousands of Members of Parliament and council candidates in the race.

Being the first election since former President Robert Mugabe was forced to step down last November and the first without the late MDC-T founding leader Morgan Tsvangirai, who succumbed to colon cancer on February 14 this year, it is a major national test to the country’s democratic tenets.

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