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Table 3: Distribution of new nonagenarian voters, October 2010 Constituency New Voters Over 90s New Roll Total over 90 MAZOWE NORTH 1542 55 479 GOKWE MAPFUNGAUTSI 1810 57 917 GOROMONZI NORTH 1460 62 817 MAZOWE CENTRAL 1474 76 962 NKAYI SOUTH 925 76 896 GURUVE NORTH 4567 90 660 GURUVE SOUTH 2201 90 888 MT. DARWIN EAST 9407 172 723 MARAMBA PFUNGWE 7630 221 833 MHANGURA 8974 258 847 GOKWE NEMBUDZIYA 13896 314 670 CHEGUTU EAST 10397 442 1012 MHONDORO NGEZI 12660 449 954 CHIPINGE EAST 13424 662 1270 Figure 2: Distribution of new voters over the age of 90, October 2010 6
As may be seen, there is a particular concentration of nonagenarians in the three Mashonaland provinces – the Zanu-PF heartland – and in a few selected key seats elsewhere. In Chipinge East there are no less than 662 of these nonagenarians. All told, there are 4,368 nonagenarians among the new voters – an almost impossible number. It is worth pointing out that there are also 1,425 voters on the roll whose gender is, oddly, declared to be undetermined – denoted with a “U”. Among these new voters of uncertain gender, there are no less than 171 voters under the age of 18 – who, accordingly, should not be on the roll at all. There are also 1,235 new voters whose address is given as *** Box -. Their inclusion defies the requirement that addresses must be given. Even more spectacularly, of these 1,235 people, no less than 1,160 are more than 100 years old. There are thus a considerable number of centenarians among the new voters. But this astonishing fact pales into insignificance when the total voters' roll of October 2010, incorporating both “old” and “new” voters, is examined. Thus, in the single constituency of Mount Darwin East, we find 118 registered voters over 100 years old, the majority of whom have their date of birth recorded as 1 st January 1901. This means they are all more than 110 years old! Another nine have birth-dates of 1 st January 1905, and 25 are given as having been born on 1 st January 1910. 3 Overall, the full voters' roll shows no less than 41,119 centenarians. This is an impossible figure. The United Kingdom (UK), with a total population of over 60 million and an average life expectancy more than 30 years longer than Zimbabwe's, has only 10,000 centenarians. The data on the roll also shows that only 19,626 of these centenarians are women, while 437 are of uncertain gender (!) and 21,056 are men. This is a further absurdity, for the roll thus reveals a large masculine majority among the centenarians, even though women in Zimbabwe, as elsewhere in the world, have a longer life expectancy than men. A male majority among the centenarians is thus an impossibility. An additional impossibility is a male majority among the centenarians purely among the new voters. Finally, there are no less than 16,828 registered voters with the same date of birth, given as 1st January 1901. It might be argued that the enumerator simply gave this birth date to all very senior citizens who were in doubt as to their true age – though that already suggests an impermissible degree of official intervention in the registration process. However, if one's credulity is stretched by this extraordinary number of 110-year-olds, it is stretched way beyond breaking point when one learns that no less than 1,101 of these 110-year-olds are registered in Mr Mugabe's birthplace, Zvimba, presumably to act as a reserve category capable of producing particularly pleasing results for Zanu-PF there. 3 For list of centenarians with same date of birth in Mt Darwin East, see Appendix 3. 7
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