We also examined potential differences due to Political Trust. Political trust has not been shown to be factor in Western studies to lie behind more active political participation (van Deth.2001), but previous Zimbabwean studies have shown consistent differences between rural and urban groups in the degree of trust they place in key political figures and agencies (RAU. 2018 (a); RAU. 2018 9b)). Given the mooted relationship between Apostolics and residence in rural areas, we expected to find that Apostolics evinced greater Political Trust than other religions. Table 6: Political Trust Index President Parliament National electoral commission Local government council Ruling party Opposition political parties Police Army Courts Traditional leaders Religious leaders Other religions Apostolic [n=983] [n=216] 41% 50%* 25% 37%* 24% 31%* 23% 32% 32%* 42%* 8% 23% 34% 28% 40% 41% 6%* 35%* 43%* 47%* 51%* 45%* In general the levels of trust are not very high, with only in trust the president (in February 2017) and traditional leaders reaching around 50%. However, members of Apostolic churches have significantly higher trust in every single official or organisation than members of other churches, and, furthermore, have much lower trust in opposition political parties. When seen in the context of high levels of political fear by Apostolics (and other churches), the low trust levels seem obvious. *significantly different on χ2 (p=0.001) Given this lack of trust in opposition political parties, it is not surprising that Apostolics are the stronger supporters of ZANU-PF than members of other churches. Other religions show greater support for the MDC-T and other political parties than the Apostolics, but there are also very much higher frequencies of the “reticent” – those answering as inapplicable or refused to answer in the members of other churches, but the Apostolic members also have reasonably high frequencies of being “reticent”. Table 7: Political Affiliation Taking the rates of “reticence” in the context of high levels of political fear and relatively low levels of political trust, it does not seem that in can be axiomatically assumed that members of Apostolic churches can be comprehensively assumed to be in the packet of ZANU-PF. Those that express open political affiliation do not support opposition political parties, but very high numbers are “reticent”, and it is not evident where their support would have been placed (or where it was placed) in the 2018 elections). Close to MDC-T Close to ZANU-PF Close to other party Reticent about closeness to party Vote for MDC-T Vote for ZANU-PF Vote for other party Reticent about voting Other religions Apostolic [n=983] [n=216] 14%* 6% 32% 46%* 3%* 1% 51%* 16% 35% 6%* 42%* 47% 12% 53%* 3% 32% *significantly different on χ2 (p=0.001) 7