As March 29 draws near by the day, election fever is slowly gathering momentum in the country.

Voter educators can be seen moving around different residential areas and primary elections for contesting parties have already started. Officials from Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) are moving around teaching people on how to check their names in the voters’ role. This includes moving around churches teaching people on what is required for them to be registered. Zanu PF is in the process of holding rallies everywhere with the Morgan Tsvangirai faction doing the same though not as constant as is being done by the ruling party. The party seems not to have dropped the theme that land is what people need and so they shall be given. This goes against the fact that all productive land was given to those with high ranks in Zanu PF and the masses were left out. Most people had to forcibly acquire land on their own but still farming inputs are not availed to them as they find their way to the party gurus at cheap prices and then they sell them at exorbitant prices to peasant farmers.

The government failed in its land redistribution programme to put into consideration the peasant farmer yet they are using the same theme to garner support. Also the ruling party is blaming opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai for all the problems this country is facing. “Let us defeat MDC once again as its leader has been on the rampage calling for sanctions against Zimbabwe. Look now electricity is going because of him,” was a statement from one Zanu PF Member of Parliament at a rally held in the rural areas. Though it is a fact that Tsvangirai asked for sanctions, they were purely against the ruling elite and so they are up to now, smart sanctions. The ruling party is sizzling to think that the country is no longer a net exporter but the opposite being true. This therefore means that the little foreign currency the nation has is failing to carter for its foreign needs that highly include the purchase of supplementary electricity from neighbouring countries.

To add excitement in the Zimbabwean politics, Simba Makoni has finally gone public on his intentions to stand in the presidential election in March. This comes after days of speculation from both the media and the public. Though he has not renounced his membership from Zanu PF, Makoni is going ahead in challenging President Robert Mugabe in the elections.

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