Zimbabwe elections: Generals dig in

THE country’s securocrats — who for the past four years have threatened to destabilise the coalition government by their open declaration of allegiance to Zanu PF — have further solidified their position with Zimbabwe Prison Service Commissioner-General Paradzai Zimondi yesterday telling his subordinates to rally behind President Robert Mugabe in this year’s harmonised polls.

Report by Everson Mushava/ Hilary Maradzika

Addressing prison guards at the conferment of promotions to prison officers in Harare, Zimondi described this year as “historical” and “a special year in the history of this country”, a year, he said, that should see Mugabe getting a landslide victory.

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