(12 Dec 2001)

Harare, November 2001
1. Mugabe motorcade arriving at funeral of slain comrade amid singing women
2. Militant Zanu PF youths dancing and singing ruling party songs at a funeral
3. Mugabe getting out of car
4. Militant Zanu PF supporters dancing and singing ruling party songs at a funeral
5. Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe on stage
6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Robert Mugabe, President of Zimbabwe:
"The MDC perpetrators of political violence and crimes against humanity and their international sponsors should also know that their days are numbered."

Bulawayo, November 2001
7. Various of smouldering MDC regional office (3 shots)
8. Burned out college run by ZANU PF member and former MP

Harare, June 2000
9. Various of international election monitors at work during the 2000 general elections in Zimbabwe (2 shots)

Harare, December 2001
10. Set up Patrick Chinamasa, Zimbabwean Justice Minister
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Patrick Chinamasa, Zimbabwean Justice Minister:
"As far as we are concerned no organisation, foreign power, person is going to come to Zimbabwe and act as an (election) observer without an appropriate invitation extended at the appropriate time by the government of Zimbabwe."

Harare, November 2001
12. General view, presser EU delegation at Harare airport
13. SOUNDBITE: (English) Chris Patten, European Commissioner for foreign
relations:
"We haven't asked to come in and monitor elections or to replace what was done by civil society. What we have said is that we are prepared here as we would like here, as we have done elsewhere, to observe the elections."

Harare, June 2000
14. President Mugabe casts his vote
15. Various at polling station (2 shots)

Harare, December 2001
16. SOT (English) Morgan Tsvangirai, leader of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)
"If Zanu PF can accept a code of conduct that is going to retain some normalcy, some peaceful campaigning and allow Zimbabweans to have a free choice. That is the only basis upon which we will have a legitimate outcome at the end of the elections."

Harare, November 2001
17. Various police patrols and reaction to demonstration by civic organisation

Harare, December 2001
18. SOUNDBITE: (English) Magaret Dongo, President Zimbabwe Union of Democrats:
"It's not a question of waking up on the wrong side of the bed and abuse your power. As far as I am concerned, Mugabe is abusing his power because he has to have respect for the law and he has to have respect for the citizens of Zimbabwe."

Suburbs of Harare, June 2000
19. Various at funeral of right hand of MDC leader Tsvangirai (2 shots)

STORYLINE:

Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe is gearing up for presidential elections in March next year.

The ruling party ZANU PF is gathering in Victoria Falls, Thursday, to launch its campaign.

Since last year's parliamentary elections this southern African country has witnessed a lot of political motivated violence.

Indeed the build-up to next year's crucial ballot promises to be all but peaceful.

Last month at the funeral of a fellow comrade of Zimbabwe's independence war, President Mugabe told the crowd he is ready to combat the opposition movement MDC by all means necessary.

Mugabe's warning followed clashes in Zimbabwe's 2nd city of Bulawayo, triggered by the abduction and murder of one of his party's faithful.

ZANU PF hardliners and so called "war veterans" unleashed their anger for the death of their comrade by setting the MDC's regional offices on fire.

Opposition supporters then reacted by torching a college owned by a close Mugabe ally.










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