Finger-licking crowds have not distracted from concerns about the fairness of this week's elections.
Free fried chicken and an endorsement from an unbeaten former world boxing champion have formed part of the intriguing choreography of election campaigning in Zimbabwe.
Team Pachedu will be using an app called Mandla, meaning strength, to help monitor "hotspots" it feels Zanu-PF "takes advantage of" - a reference to a belief that the ruling party's long stay in power has been the result of rigging. Last month, Mayweather flew into the country aboard a private jet and at the behest of prominent gold dealer Scott Sakupwanya, an aspiring Zanu-PF MP for Mabvuku - an opposition stronghold in the capital, Harare.
Director Jestina Mukoko told the BBC that the main incidents had been arson, assaults, kidnapping threats and intimidation - all related to the elections and mainly perpetrated by Zanu-PF.The CCC says the police have banned nearly 100 gatherings since it was formed in January last year Monitors describe this as one of Zimbabwe's most litigious elections with more than 100 court cases related to the disqualification of mainly opposition candidates.Unemployment remains a problem, with only 25% of Zimbabweans holding formal jobs
Freeman Chari, co-ordinator of an activist monitoring group CredibleVote, says research has revealed glaring anomalies in the voters' roll with "millions of people shifted from their traditional voting areas in opposition strongholds".
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