SOUTH Africa's governing ANC leader Jacob Zuma has criticised the delay in publishing the results of Zimbabwe's presidential elections held 11 days ago.
Mr Zuma said the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) should have announced the results by now.
Zimbabwe's MDC opposition is taking legal action to get the results, but after days of delay, the High Court in Harare has only now begun considering the MDC's request for the immediate release of the election results.
Mr Zuma said Zimbabwe's election had become an international issue, and admitted it did not augur well to keep Zimbabwe and the rest of the world in suspense over the election results.
His comments were in stark contrast to those of his rival in South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki, who last weekend called the situation "manageable". On Monday, Mr Zuma met Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, when he visited Johannesburg for the day.
Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party is trying to persuade Zimbabwe's neighbours to take a more public stand, and said there had been a deafening silence in the region over the bloodshed in Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe's MDC opposition is taking legal action to get the results, but after days of delay, the High Court in Harare has only now begun considering the MDC's request for the immediate release of the election results.
Mr Zuma said Zimbabwe's election had become an international issue, and admitted it did not augur well to keep Zimbabwe and the rest of the world in suspense over the election results.
His comments were in stark contrast to those of his rival in South Africa, President Thabo Mbeki, who last weekend called the situation "manageable". On Monday, Mr Zuma met Zimbabwe's opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, when he visited Johannesburg for the day.
Mr Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party is trying to persuade Zimbabwe's neighbours to take a more public stand, and said there had been a deafening silence in the region over the bloodshed in Zimbabwe.
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