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'Aliens' stage demo for right to vote
15 Jul 2013 at 06:05hrs | Views
About 50 "aliens" demonstrated outside the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission offices in Harare on Friday, demanding to be allowed to participate in the forthcoming harmonised elections after they failed to regularise their citizenship and register as voters in the just-ended voter registration exercise.
The demonstrators accused ZEC of making cumbersome demands for change of citizenship.
Coordinator of the group, Kimberly Nyatsanga, left a petition at the ZEC gate and the Registrar-General's Office after they found the gates closed.
Meanwhile, the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe has accused ZEC of deleting names of its members from the list of polling officers for the July 31 elections.
The demonstrators accused ZEC of making cumbersome demands for change of citizenship.
Coordinator of the group, Kimberly Nyatsanga, left a petition at the ZEC gate and the Registrar-General's Office after they found the gates closed.
Meanwhile, the Progressive Teachers' Union of Zimbabwe has accused ZEC of deleting names of its members from the list of polling officers for the July 31 elections.
Source - newsday
