A new constitution paves the way for presidential elections by James Stent Three army-green tents stand on a large and littered field caught between a main road and a wall of derelict apartment blocks in Mbare, a working-class suburb of Harare. Orderly queues stretching to over 100 m lead to these bivouacs turned into polling stations. The residents shuffle forward, quietly, identity cards in hand, ready to vote on a new constitution, Zimbabwe’s first since independence in 1980. The day before, not far from this field, a mob attacked campaign workers putting up pro-constitution posters. A BBC reporter got caught…
