….or how else could you describe the remarkably fast counting of votes in the presidential run-off. While in March the electoral commission wasn’t able to announce results for more than a month after the ‘election’, ‘President’ Mugabe is scheduled to be sworn in today, 2 days after the poll.

Congratulations to the Zimbabwean electoral commission for a significant improvement in performance, but I can’t help wondering what kind of incentives were being introduced to bring the commission up to speed.

Axes?