Tsvangirai to address the 'What Happened Rally'

Former Prime Minister, Morgan Tsvangirai is set to address a rally at Sakubva Stadium in Mutare on Saturday with the MDC claiming that their leader will reveal to supporters how the July 31 polls were "stolen."

The Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) announced that President Robert Mugabe had won 61 percent of the presidential vote while his Zanu PF won by a two thirds majority in Parliament but the MDC immediately described the election as a farce claiming Zanu PF had rigged.

The rally dubbed What Happened? will also be used to commemorate the party's 14th anniversary.  

The MDC turns 14 on Wednesday.Tsvangirai's party is still devastated after losing the July 31 elections. The party's national organising secretary, Nelson Chamisa told the Daily News on Sunday yesterday that Tsvangirai will provide answers to how Zanu PF "rigged" the elections.

Sadc has since endorsed the election result as "free, peaceful and generally credible."

Last week, the MDC claimed that a Sadc report on the July 31 election presented by Tanzania's foreign minister Bernard Membe was false.Political analysts like Trevor Maisiri said the endorsement of the election by Sadc sounded a death knell on the MDC's hope of securing any help from the regional body.

Said Chamisa: "We will hold a rally to commemorate our 14th anniversary and come up with a way forward. We did a forensic report and it has damning discoveries which we want to share with the whole country at Sakubva Stadium on Saturday."

The party which has presented the biggest challenge for Zanu PF had prior to the election raised issues of the electoral irregularities which included; the failure of political parties to access an electronic and hard copy of the voters' roll.