Zimbabweans In The Diaspora Ready To Vote

Monday, June 11, 2018

Zimbabweans residing in Francistown celebrating the resignation of Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe president PIC: KEOAGILE BONANG

FRANCISTOWN: Zimbabwean business community along Blue Jacket Street, popularly nicknamed "Bulawayo Street" by Francistowners, has expressed its readiness to go to the polls in the upcoming plebiscite.

The polls, scheduled for July 30, 2018 will be the first election in the post-Robert Mugabe era following his ouster in a military-assisted soft coup last November.

It will also be a test for the Emmerson Mnangagwa-led administration to deliver a free, fair and credible election that is without violence unlike in the past when the polls were mired in mayhem.

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Zimbabweans In The Diaspora Ready To Vote

FRANCISTOWN: Zimbabwean business community along Blue Jacket Street, popularly nicknamed "Bulawayo Street" by Francistowners, has expressed its readiness to go to the polls in the upcoming plebiscite.

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