Harare - Zimbabwe's main opposition said yesterday President Robert Mugabe's government had deployed troops in an opposition stronghold in a bid to intimidate voters ahead of next year's presidential elections.
State radio reported on Saturday that the army had been sent to Lupane district in Matabeleland province in north-western Zimbabwe to quell political violence following the recent killings of two members of the ruling ZANU-PF party.
"It is plain to us that this is yet another ploy to intimidate voters but it will not work," opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) secretary-general Mr Welshman Ncube said after visiting the district yesterday.
