Here is a timeline of events leading up to Monday’s landmark vote and its bloody aftermath. – New president pledges polls –On November 24 Mnangagwa is sworn in as president, promising that elections due in 2018 will go ahead. The much-criticised election authority meanwhile declares there has been no rigging, after the opposition repeatedly alleges the vote process was flawed. – Violence erupts –On August 1 the election commission announces that ZANU-PF has won most of the seats in parliament. It does not give the results for the presidential vote.

Source: Punch August 02, 2018 13:18 UTC