Friday, June 27, 2008

Reports from Zimbabwe - Boycott working

The boycott has been a resounding success

This is Bulawayo’s City Hall (12.53pm), usually the busiest polling station in the City Centre. Not today! It is starting to look like the boycott has proven highly successful, particularly, as expected, in urban areas. The turnout is interesting as the country’s urban areas have been under an onslaught of violence, intimidation and hate

I've never been a big fan of boycotts, but that's easy to say when you live in the United States and you can vote for anyone you want. In this case these people weren't given a real choice, a lot like Cuba, and the only chance for a free vote went away when the opposition candidate was beaten into pulling out of the race. What then?

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