ZANU-PF candidate house bombed in Bulawayo
By Admore Tshuma in England
A house belonging to a ZANU-PF parliamentary candidate for Emakhandeni / Entumbane constituency Ms Judith Mukwanda has been bombed with dynamites in Bulawayo, the Zim Diaspora has found out.
Information reaching London is that Ms Mukwanda’s house at Emakhandeni suburb was bombed by unknown assailants with a political objective. The house was bombed in the early hours of this morning, it was revealed.
At the time of the attack, Ms Mukwanda was reportedly in bed with her family.
The assailants allegedly threw a bag of dynamites at the door which immediately exploded causing a lot of damage in the house. No one was injured, according to our source Ms Mukwanda and her family have since been moved by police to a safe house.
It is believed that the bombers are part of the young and hopeless Zimbabweans who have lost faith with Mr Mugabe’s “one way” elections. These young people grow up with anger because poverty and unemployment caused by Mr Mugabe’s government.
The bombing should save as a warning to Mr Mugabe that any attempt to steal the elections at this difficult time could result in a massive scale of violence reminiscent of recent disturbances in Kenya which left over a thousand dead.
A senior journalist in Bulawayo told the Zim Diaspora that very few people have so far voted despite a high number of polling stations this time around.
Five million voters are expected to cast their ballots in a country with a population of 13 million, and 8,998 polling stations have been designated by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission.
An acute shortage of basic commodities ranging from sugar to bread to fuel - and inflation running at 100,000 per cent a year, which has rendered the Zimbabwean dollar almost worthless - have left many voters angry and frustrated.
“As I speak to you I have just done my suburban beat. I toured all the suburbs of Bulawayo and there was no any place where I saw a queue. In some polling stations polling officers were even sleeping, “he said.
The source attributed this to lack of confidence with Mr Mugabe’s elections saying most Zimbabweans see no point of voting. Results are expected tomorrow largely because of the verification process which takes hours to complete. This process involves tallying the number of ballots boxes and the number of registered voters.