Zimbabwe: Analysts say free and fair elections will depend on political climate

The country is far away from staging free and fair elections because voters in Zimbabwe still don’t enjoy broad freedom to criticize government, to publish their criticism and to present alternatives, according to a political analyst. The government recently published new electoral laws that it said would provide a better electoral framework. But Cape Town based political analyst Glen Mpani said only when the ruling Zanu-PF regime guarantees basic human rights, values tolerance, allows equality before the law and the due process of law, will people talk of free and fair elections.