Is there an election coming?
Was up in the rural area for the weekend, Madziwa area, north of Shamva. Nicholas Goche country. I know, because I saw one poster to vote for him, as MP. Saw another poster on the back of an ET. And saw two torn (but new) posters. And that is all I saw out there. Is there an election coming?
Five Police points on the way home. But never even slowed down. Waved through every one. I guess we did not look like we had drugs under the seat, or explosives in the spare tyre. Were they just practicing (to intimidate)? Or just showing a sudden presence (which in itself is intimidation)? Or were they getting to the rural areas for the weekend too?
Back past the toll gate, inside the city, before the Shamva turn off from Mtoko Road, then elections is a bit more evident when you look. Whole ZESA substations covered in posters. A few on trees. Many vandalized (or just put up badly by clumsy people who tore them in the effort – too much excitement). But even then, cannot read them as you drive past. No one else seems to be looking at them.
Looks to me like this will be the non-event to rival the Constitution referendum. Which caused a landslide somewhere.