The most exciting and nerve wrecking election in history is going on in Zimbabwe. The candidate list in alphabetical and no ranked order is; Robert G. Mugabe. In charge of his campaign is the militia. On his voters list are also the militia men, but also the always faithful and reliable dead!

I saw a horror movie “The return of the living dead” many years ago. Rotten corpses stood up from the grave every midnight, and crowding the streets in hunt for brain matter from living people. I can picture similar scenes in the streets in Zimbabwe these days. The John and Jane Does only wake up for elections though, and only there to vote for Mugabe. No matter of brains this. No worries or horrors!

Now that the voting is over, we can only wait in anticipation for the result. I wonder how they’re counting the percentages. How far back and how many are they including from the death list? Does the votes from living, dead and colonial whites count equally much? They must have thought this through already. These factors are crucial for a credible result, isn’t it?!