Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe was the first to be registered, at State House in Harare, as a voter when the biometric voter listing kicked off on September 14, 2017. PHOTO | AFP
The Zimbabwean government will award 300 tonnes of rice to the top 10 districts that mobilise the most people to register as voters ahead of next year’s election.
“It is now a competition. Let us encourage people to register as voters,” Justice Minister Happyton Bonyongwe told traditional leaders at the National Chiefs’ Conference in Bulawayo last week.
