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How did ZANU-PF won in elections?
Zanu-PF's surprise win of six seats in Harare, previously a stronghold for Morgan Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T), came after years of a carefully planned campaign to dilute support for the opposition in key constituencies in the capital.

According to senior Zanu-PF officials, the party had specifically targeted seats held by senior officials of the MDC-T, calculating that this would destabilise Tsvangirai's party elsewhere.

The party targeted and won Harare North, previously held by Theresa Makone, a close ally and family friend of Tsvangirai, and Mt Pleasant, previously held by Jameson Timba, Tsvangirai's chief of international relations.

Zanu-PF also won in Mbare, the city's biggest township, and in Epworth. However, it did not manage to prise MDC-T secretary general Tendai Biti from his seat in Harare East.

Zanu-PF used Zimbabweans' hunger for land to parcel out pieces of property, clawing its way into the urban constituencies that had rejected it in previous polls.


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