Voter registration apathy mars Mwenezi, Chivi constituencies

A PALTRY 43 000 potential voters had successfully registered by the end of the first phase of the biometric voter registration programme in Mwenezi East, West and Chivi South constituencies, amid reports that most eligible voters from the three constituencies had migrated to neighbouring South Africa in search of greener pastures.

The number is less than 47 000 people registered to vote in the April 2017 by-election in Mwenezi East, which was won by Zanu PF’s Joosbi Omar.

The two Mwenezi constituencies are traditionally Zanu PF strongholds.

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