‘Sadc must supervise Zim elections’

Zapu has urged Sadc, the guarantor of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement (GPA), to deploy its security forces and electoral officials to superintend the country’s forthcoming general elections to ensure they are free and fair.

Addressing delegates at last week’s Independent Dialogue meeting in Bulawayo, Zapu legal adviser Stephen Nkiwani described the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) and the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) as partisan and unfit to deal with national elections without outside assistance.

“The truth is that we want to guard against violence by insisting that the monitoring force for forthcoming elections should consist of our own ZRP which is not trusted and trusted members of the Sadc police force,” he said.

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