Violence: Zanu PF's Poll Trump Card.

(From Zimbabwe Standard - AAGM)

Byline: Caiphas Chimhete

... despite statements by Mugabe and Chihuri against violence

TWO months before the March parliamentary elections, incidents of violence within the ruling Zanu PF and against the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) are on the increase country wide despite calls for peaceful polls by President Robert Mugabe, The Standard has established.

The irony of it all, say some observers, is that most of the alleged perpetrators of the politically motivated violence are in fact, senior Zanu PF officials and legislators, raising questions about the sincerity of statements by Mugabe and police commissioner, Augustine Chihuri declaring "zero …