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I agree that the poll is a set up to declare Mugabe has stolen the election. It was my first and immediate thought on reading the headlines. The other guy mungojerry I call him is a western stooge. If he had opposed Mugabe and also opposed the western powers that are no doubt bankrolling him I could have respect for him. Mungojerry is another Chalabi, one of the power hungry stooges that brought destruction on his own people in Iraq. Traitor is too good a word.

I do Zillion times agree with Banda. Why are Africans keep accepting other cultures; Especially so, Europeans to keep destroying our Continent, Africa. When are those stupid and ignorant Africans going to wake up and smell the burnt coffee. Do those stupid Africans actually think Europe cares for the Black Skin or the Continent. All they care for is our minerial resources. That's the Fact!!!!!!

Banda, you cannot say that talk radio is "dangerous." Radio is a well respected medium that works very well in many countries to inform and entertain the people. What happened in Rwanda is an exceptional case and comparing that to SW Radio in London is plainly ignorant. It is obvious that SW Radio has an agenda and probably does support Tsvagirai but many newspapers, television networks, and radio stations in every free and democratic country will endorse one candidate over others in an election. That is fact. And why is it that they cannot support Tsvangirai but The Herald can support Mugabe? Wake up to democracy; a concept that is simple, honest, and fair.

It is interesting that whenever a hard hitting, factual article is printed that does not agree with the Zanu-PF party line, there are always Z-PF party loyalists who will not only disagree with the obvious, but do so in such grandiose terms as to prove themselves ludicrous lackeys. The world knows the truth, and that is that mugabe has gone from a hero to a pathetic megalomaniac. The “breadbasket” did not become the “basket case” for any other reason. To think otherwise is foolish.

I would also suggest that people should go for the long term fighters thats Tswangirai and the issues regarding the running of the country be looked into at a later stage as the country sets for revision of the constitution and other governing polices

I a afraid that Zimbabwe is slowly drifting into a new dimension of monopoly . Zanu and it's suppoters have created a monopoly of thought and will not allow people to think differently lest you be labelled a puppet of the worst and a traitor of the struggle. They have even unleashed this terror that some people are beginning to think that it is illegal to think !!!!!!!!!

I a afraid that Zimbabwe is slowly drifting into a new dimension of monopoly . Zanu and it's suppoters have created a monopoly of thought and will not allow people to think differently lest you be labelled a puppet of the worst and a traitor of the struggle. They have even unleashed this terror that some people are beginning to think that it is illegal to think !!!!!!!!! What is wrong in accepting the results of this poll when people accept whatever you publish in your Herald ? I think whoever who is going to win the election other than Matibili has to work hard to remove fear and culticising leaders in the minds of many!

I a afraid that Zimbabwe is slowly drifting into a new dimension of monopoly . Zanu and it's suppoters have created a monopoly of thought and will not allow people to think differently lest you be labelled a puppet of the worst and a traitor of the struggle. They have even unleashed this terror that some people are beginning to think that it is illegal to think !!!!!!!!! What is wrong in accepting the results of this poll when people accept whatever you publish in your Herald ? I think whoever who is going to win the election other than Matibili has to work hard to remove fear and culticising leaders in the minds of many!

MDC and MPOI are sister organizations as far as i'm concerned. Is it any wonder that these two were formed around the same time? Tsvangirai is now a hard sell. I think the researchers ought to include the rig factor. I think.

I WAS interested to see the "leaked results" of the Mass Public Opinion Institute - MPOI - survey regarding who would win the Presidential election this year.

I have known MPOI since my dear late friend and colleague Professor Masipula Sithole set up the Institute some years ago. In Mas's day, we could trust results from this institute to be a genuine reflection of whatever question was being surveyed. Unfortunately, since then the Institute seems to have lost some of its impartiality, perhaps because one particular political party has its headquarters only two buildings away, at Harvest House.

My skepticism of the survey results published on Studio 7 and in the Zimbabwe Independent last week is based on the fact that in 2005 MPOI conducted a survey and then kept the result secret "because some of your top people didn't like it" in the words of Professor Eldred Masunungure, Director of MPOI.

The survey conducted then was a snap survey in Harare on the issue of the forthcoming Senate election. The question was whether people were in favour of MDC participating in that election. This survey was taken in September, 2005, one month before the disastrous split of the MDC over this issue. Prof Masunungure told me, on the fringe of another encounter in early 2006, that some 75% of respondents in Harare were in favour of participating the Senate election, and that this is what "some of your top people" were not happy about. MPOI therefore suppressed that result, and the entire world was allowed to come under the impression that Zimbabweans as a whole rejected the Senate project. This impression was false - and Morgan Tsvangirai's sudden volte face in August to reject anything to do with the Senate (when in March and April he was promising people Senate seats) was publicly supported by MPOI's silence on their findings.

So now we have MPOI declaring that Morgan Tsvangirai will win the Presidential election, with Mugabe coming second and Makoni third, while over 30% of voters still keep their vote their secret.

Since more than 30% of respondents would not say which presidential candidate they would vote for, and since even Tsvangirai got less than 30%, I do not believe this poll to be a very reliable indicator of the actual election result. Was it leaked to campaign for Tsvangirai?

Trudy Stevenson is MP for Harare North constituency and the secretary on local government for the MDC faction led by Arthur Mutambara JOIN THE DEBATE ON THIS

I have no problems that SW Radio supporting Morgan Tsvangirai. But to claim that it is a respectable, objective, and ethical is real not being honest. As a matter of fact, it is a very biased Radio in the so-called free-world (London, UK). How ironic that the British talk about a free press, while busy sponsoring a bias and propaganda radio station, that is what bothers most Zimbabweans. The British are full of double standards and it reduces their credibility in Zimbabwe and else where in Africa. At least we know the Herald is pro-Zanu pf. Pretty much everybody knows that. But for a Radio station 10,000 miles away and totally ignorat of local interests and politics is far worse and dangerous. They have been making numerous dangerous claims. The bottom line is they are a very dangerous group. Yes, it is Radio Rwanda that caused the death of thousands of people. Radio right wings in Europe and USA are partly responsible for the Nazi killer gangs and racists groups.

the people of Zim we are living in an illusion we think a miracle is going to happen. The rigging machinery is still on and inside information says that these elections were won two years ago .We are just playing to Mugabe's agenda this is a non event stop discussion it and think where you are going to get US50billion to reconstruct that country .wake up and smell the coffe.

phiri, u tend to cite in a subjective way.. Yo discussions with professors and drs or whoever u mentioned are not conclusive and in ths discussion, irrelevant.. Do u know that, these radio stations (underground) are the very same ones that have liberated the people by givin information which is far from the propaganda (the one u now call african, but called it western 30 years ago). This just shows the replacement of white minority propaganda by black elitist minority.. The very thing they fought for is the same thing they now fight against.. SW radio and other stations should and must be allowed to air the majorities views..

Don't fool yourself, Zimbabweans make a distinction between white Rhodesian and anglo white sponsored terrorism thru Radio, and Liberation Radio Stations. Whether it is Western propaganda (which is now the common form of propaganda) or Chinese propaganda does not matter, all are bad. Colonialist are losing their foothold in Africa and now are turning to propaganda. White Rhodies propaganda is cheap, foolish and racists. Rhodies complain just about anything these days. When they arrive in UK, they still complain that they would rather be in Rhodesia - I don't get it!!! Africans like myself and others have a right to confront largely white anglo propaganda;the more prevalent propaganda in the 21st centuary. It is not the Russians, or chinese, or Indians - but the USA and UK period.

Phiri, why do you care so much about 'anglo propaganda'? Do you worry about consumer advertising or medical research reports as much? If you are confident and content in your situation then the opinions of others, and hence propoganda, matter little. Southern Africa's problems are due not to western propaganda but corruption through greed. Botswana is the exception. Propoganda and Finger pointing are far from being new or unique to African politics, the Botswana situation is. Maybe there is a lesson to be learned there. The facts speak for themselves.