THE candidate for Zimbabwe’s ruling Zanu-PF party won a by-election to fill the seat left vacant after the death of war veterans leader Chenjerai Hunzvi. Bernard Makokove of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) defeated the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change’s (MDC) Oswald Ndanga by 15 570 votes to 5 207, state television station ZBC said. The two-day poll which took place on Saturday and Sunday in the district of Chikomba, central Zimbabwe, was organised to replace Hunzvi, who died in June. The Chikomba seat fell vacant after Hunzvi’s death, reportedly from malaria, although the independent media claim he died from Aids. – AFP
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