(17 Mar 2013) SHOTLIST
1. Wide of men looking at results displayed at polling station
2. Close of polling results
3. Wide of polling results displayed at polling station
4. Pan of empty polling station
5. Mid of polling officers in car with ballot box.
6. Wide of car with polling officers driving off
7. Wide of polling officers loading generator into car
8. Wide of polling officers in the back of van with generator
9. Wide of Shingirai Takafireyi cutting a man's hair at his street side barbershop
10. Mid of Shingirai cutting hair
11. SOUNDBITE: (Shona) Shingirai Takafireyi, Local Resident:
"If all goes well as we expect, we might have a brighter future."
12. Wide of people looking at newspapers in the street
13. Close of newspaper headline (English) "Low turnout mars referendum hype."
14. Wide of people looking at newspapers
15. SOUNDBITE: (English) Voxpo, No name given:
"I am a foreigner, in fact I am an alien. If this constitution passes, I think we are going to have some chances of voting as Zimbabwean citizens. That's one of the things that I am happy about."
16. Wide man reading newspaper with headline reading, "Thousands decide on constitution."
17. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bernard K. Membe, Tanzanian Foreign Minister and Head of Southern African Development Community Observer Mission to Zimbabwe:
"The SADC observer mission noted reports of isolated cases of intimidation and harassment in some areas and in particular Mbare in Harare."
18. Wide of SADC observers
19. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bernard K. Membe, Tanzanian Foreign Minister and Head of Southern African Development Community Observer Mission to Zimbabwe:
"The mission has come to the conclusion that although some of the concerns raised are pertinent, they are nevertheless not of such magnitude as to affect the credibility of the overall referendum.
20. Cutaway
21. Mid of Rindai Chifunde Vava, Director Zimbabwe Elections Support Network
22. SOUNDBITE: (English) Rindai Chifunde Vava, Director Zimbabwe Elections Support Network:
"I think it was relatively calm and generally a smooth process despite some few incidents of delayed opening and shortage of materials in some of the polling stations and also intimidation in some of the poling stations. We do hope that for the general election they are going to address some of these issues particularly harmonising the constitution and the electoral act.
23. Wide of Zimbabwe Electoral Commission Chairperson Justice Rita Makarau
STORYLINE:
Zimbabwe's official election body says an estimated two (m) million people cast their votes in a referendum on a new constitution that seeks to curb presidential powers and strengthen human rights.
Judge Rita Makarau, head of the electoral commission, said Sunday the low estimate came from early returns from the nation's 9,400 polling stations.
Zimbabwe has an estimated 6.6 (m) million registered voters.
All main political parties had called for a "Yes" vote amid fears of a low voter turnout.
Zimbabweans were given just three weeks to read the 170-page draft of the constitution.
Many Zimbabweans are hoping that the draft constitution will become the supreme law of the land ahead of presidential elections that will bring an end to troubled unity government later in the year.
The draft proposes changes that are meant to curb election related violence that has marred many Zimbabwean elections in the past.
Shingirai Takafireyi, a barber in the township of Mbare, one of Harare's flash points, says he was hoping the draft would become law.
"If all goes well as we expect we might have a brighter future," he said.


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