Election fever, at its peak !

I am trying to squeeze myself into the only functioning lift in our building. I have to prepare myself for the stuffy experience where a lift with no windows nor fresh air and overloaded with more than the mandatory 10 people. As if to offer some form of relief, a young man wearing an MDC Tsvangirai T-shirt passes a comment:
"Don’t worry ‘sisi,’ everything will be alright on the 30th." It seems as if the mood in Zimbabwe is so fluid, it’s filled with expectation of political change that could retrieve Zimbabwe from the grave that it has been lying in since Independence.

It only takes one to walk down the street for one to see the posters on every sign post, wall, dust bin, and even on vehicles of every size and shape, something we last saw in 2002. One is without doubt that we are in the midst of a historic moment. For the first time Zimbabweans are going to vote in harmonised elections where for the first time we are voting for our representatives in local authorities, parliament (House of Assembly and Senate) and the Presidency.
So the B.I.G question is who’s the MAN? Who is it going be? Yet no one is that sure. There is so much uncertainty on which of the three would be our next president. Quite frankly I think we are in for a shock. It is so sad that Zimbabweans are so ill prepared. Don’t get me wrong, if there is one unwritten truism it’s that of the preparedness of Zimbabweans for a stolen election. We have had enough experience of that. The old man has so many tricks under his sleeve in that department.
All I keep hearing are Zimbabweans hidden behind closed doors and fearfully saying, ‘Between me and you it looks like he has already won the elections.’ We all want the change and are craving for it, but, but…. there is that nagging feeling of ‘we have been down this road before’ kind of feeling.
One candidate even said that she and other candidates may need advanced bookings with their doctors for trauma care since the large amounts of cash that they had spent from their personal fortunes spent on campaigning would have gone to waste… And so we wait!