Free and fair elections can help transfer from Mugabe as Zimbabwe voter registration begins

Zimbabwe set to register voters for key election

AFP – Zimbabwe will next week launch a campaign to register eligible voters, a key first step to organising crucial elections planned for later this year, a cabinet minister said Thursday. Zimbabwe is expected to hold elections to pick a successor to the power-sharing government formed four years ago.

For 33 years Robert Mugabe has bestrode Zimbabwean politics, ruling as a virtual government of one. But as his final election nears there are signs the strongman’s power is waning. In office since independence in 1980, Mugabe, now 89 years old, will ask Zimbabweans to re-elect him president in elections. | Democracy, elections and voting at Democracy Chronicles