Mugabe has lost despite the rigging

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Dear Editor,
It has been more than a week since elections were held in Zimbabwe and the people still don’t know the outcome giving the impression that the dictator Robert Mugabe plans to change the result which by all accounts show he was handily defeated.

Elections in Zimbabwe have been rigged in  a similar fashion to previous  electoral frauds in Guyana. But for last month’s election, Muagbe acquiesced to an opposition demand for ballots to be counted at the place of polling similar to Desmond Hoyte’s acceptance of the counting of ballots at polling places in Guyana for the 1992 elections. This spelled his doom.  Hoyte lost in October 1992 and Mugabe appears to have suffered the same fate last week……


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