Zimbabwe elections an acid test for Africa’s nascent democracy

Former Robert Mugabe ally Emmerson Mnangagwa hopes to keep the ZANU-PF party in power -- but a recent poll had Nelson Chamisa of the Movement for Democratic Change just three percent behind

Zimbabweans go to the polls tomorrow in what will definitely be a momentous moment for a country smarting from decades of misrule.

It will be the first time the southern African nation, rich in diamonds and copper but fraying at the edges due to bad economic policies, will hold a post-Robert Mugabe General Election.