..As “unofficial reports” of massive MDC victory continue to filter….

Whispers in groups at street corners, text messages on mobile phones and unconfirmed facts from "reliable" friends and relatives have become the channel for communicating yesterday's Zimbabwe's election result. The message is the same, a huge MDC (Tsvangirai) victory, including in rural areas once considered a Zanu PF stronghold. Voting ended around 1900hrs yesterday and the only national broadcaster, the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC), monopolized by Mugabe's ruling Zanu PF party, announced early today that they will start broadcasting the results in the morning. It is now well after 1600 hrs and the anxious crowd is still waiting impatiently for the first set of results from the 11, 000 polling stations around the country to be officially announced. Counting at most polling stations is well over.