Mugabe is shameless

President Robert Mugabe and his ruling cronies have been documented carrying
out torture, murder and mayhem. Yet the police, army and CIO baldly deny the
proof and carry on with their abuses.

Blatant vote rigging has been proved in Zimbabwe's courts, as far back as
Margaret Dongo's case, but Mugabe just keeps holding fraudulent elections
that are marked by violence, intimidation and ballot stuffing.

It is a well known fact that the roll of Zimbabwe's registered voters is
riddled with dead voters, ghost voters, double entries and just about any
kind of false entry that can be imagined. A partial audit in 2003 showed
that 25 percent of the voters listed on the roll in one constituency were
non-existent.

With a voters' roll so full of errors, vote rigging is easy. Especially for
a regime that has its military control the voting and counting process.

The latest exposure was provided by the respected South African Institute
for Race Relations which found that the voters' roll includes an impossible
number of people over 100 years old. More than 40,000 centenarians, 16,800
of them born on Jan. 1, 1901. This in the country that has one of the
world's lowest average life expectancies at 37 years