secure  this  crucial  proportion  of  voters  in  future  elections.  There  is  now  an  engrained  suspicion  that   politicians,  regardless  of  party,  do  not  have  the  interests  of  the  impoverished  rural  or  urban  voter   at  heart,  and  are  more  interested  in  having  their  turn  at  the  trough  than  in  ensuring  legislation  and   national  budgets  that  will  lead  to  development  in  rural  areas.  It  is  now  the  responsibility  of   Zimbabwean  citizens  nationwide,  as  well  as  for  civic  groupings,  to  monitor  the  parliamentary  and   council  performances  of  Zimbabwe’s  elected  representatives,  and  to  seek  ways  of  insisting  that   election  manifestos  are  adhered  to.         One  of  many  promises  made  by  ZANU  PF  during  its  campaign….       Voting  in  Bulawayo,  2018         27