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Tsvangirai bid receives a major knock
05 Aug 2013 at 06:17hrs | Views
MDC-T leader PM Morgan Tsvangirai's plans to take his poll challenge to Sadc received a major knock yesterday after the regional bloc's point man on Zimbabwe, South African President Jacob Zuma, endorsed Zanu-PF and President Mugabe's victory and described last Wednesday's elections as a "successful vote".
Tsvangirai and his party lost dismally to Zanu-PF and Mugabe in the council, parliamentary and presidential elections.
The premier has since rejected the outcome of the polls and said he was in the process of compiling a dossier on how Mugabe stole the elections to be handed over to Sadc and the African Union.
Tsvangirai wants Sadc and the AU to push for fresh polls, but Zuma yesterday issued a congratulatory statement to Mugabe after he controversially secured his seventh term in office since independence in 1980.
In a statement released by South Africa's Foreign Ministry, Zuma extended his "profound congratulations" to Mugabe for winning a seventh term in a "successful vote".
Tsvangirai and his party lost dismally to Zanu-PF and Mugabe in the council, parliamentary and presidential elections.
The premier has since rejected the outcome of the polls and said he was in the process of compiling a dossier on how Mugabe stole the elections to be handed over to Sadc and the African Union.
Tsvangirai wants Sadc and the AU to push for fresh polls, but Zuma yesterday issued a congratulatory statement to Mugabe after he controversially secured his seventh term in office since independence in 1980.
In a statement released by South Africa's Foreign Ministry, Zuma extended his "profound congratulations" to Mugabe for winning a seventh term in a "successful vote".
Source - newsday
