As is always the case every election time, politicians come to the people with all types of goodies to win their hearts and this year had its fair share.

“When they came at our work place everybody was scrambling for the caps and calendars and in the area where my company is, it was all yellow,” went the lady.

Yellow is the colour being used by Simba Makoni which depicts the sun and therefore means a new day coming Zimbabwe’s way. Some Zanu PF candidates were selling scarce commodities to those in the voters’ role at cheap prices as a gesture of goodwill. In Chitungwiza Zanu PF candidate Christopher Chigumba was selling mealie meal and cooking oil at very cheap prices to would be voters. In Zengeza Fredrick Mabamba who also happens to be a Zanu PF went around giving people on the voters’ role 1kg of salt each. However most that got this salt were complaining that even though they can not resist these free things, can they eat salt alone when they do not have mealie meal or cooking oil on their tables.

This year Zanu PF partly dropped its empty promises style of campaigning they used to do like in Chitungwiza whereby in every election the residents would be told, “we want to built a railway line for you linking you to Harare,” but it would just end like that. Again it is the hope of many that these gestures of goodwill coming from the politicians should not only end soon as they get the vote of the people but if they get to be in power, they continue doing good.

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