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Gloves come off in Zim poll; War vets hit streets as Mugabe vows to fight and MDC call on Mbeki for help.(News)

Article from: The Independent on Saturday (South Africa) Article date: April 5, 2008

BYLINE: Moshoeshoe Monare, Deon de Lange and Fiona Forde

The gloves have come off in the Zimbabwean presidential elections with embattled president Robert Mugabe vowing to fight a presidential run-off election.

As 400 members of Zimbabwe's notorious "war veterans" took to the streets in a show of force, Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party said it would challenge the result of the parliamentary poll in 16 seats in court. If it wins these cases - and the subsequent by-elections - it could regain its majority in Zimbabwe's ...

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