Zec dumps Mudede voters roll

IN a move that could go a long way in pacifying restive opposition forces, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) says it is now the sole custodian of the country's electoral processes and has started compiling its new voters' roll independent of Registrar-General Tobaiwa Mudede's office.

Zec chairperson Justice Rita Makarau said yesterday that the commission would now use Mudede's discredited old voters' roll as a "guideline only".

The old roll has been criticised for containing names of dead people, under-age children as well as a disproportionately high number of centenarians.