TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Ingredients for a free and fair election.............................................................................3
2. The objective of the SADC political mediation process................................................. 4
3. Background.....................................................................................................................4
4. Instruments of violence and intimidation........................................................................ 5
5. Utterances by service chiefs and misuse of the army...................................................... 6
6. Policing of elections........................................................................................................ 7
7. Vote buying .................................................................................................................... 8
8. Hate speech......................................................................................................................9
9. Political campaigning and the right to protest................................................................. 9
10. Media coverage of elections........................................................................................ 11
11. Election organisation and management....................................................................... 13
12. Foreign and local observers
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13. Conclusion................................................................................................................... 19
Appendix I......................................................................................................................... 20
Table 1............................................................................................................................... 20
Table 2............................................................................................................................... 21
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