(13 Mar 2002)
Harare
1. Campaigners watching results being announced on TV
2. Wide of Tobaiwa Mudede announcing result on television
Harare
3. TV pictures of election results being announced with UPSOUND: (English) Tobaiwa Mudede, registrar-general of state electoral directorate
"I, Tobaiwa Mudede, the registrar-general of the elections, having ascertained the results of the 2002 presidential poll in the 120 constituencies, do hereby declare Robert Gabriel Mugabe of Zanu-PF party, who has received the majority of the total number of the valid votes cast, the winner of the presidential election for the office of the president of the Republic of Zimbabwe."
Harare
4. Zimbabweans reading newspapers on street
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Patrick Chinamasa, Zimbabwe Justice Minister
"This election has been fought over the issue of land. We went to the people to seek their mandate for us to complete the unfinished business of the liberation war and it looks like they are going to give us a firm mandate to complete that task."
(Q: Would you say the election was free and fair?)
"Very free and fair, and I think that any objective-minded person will agree that this election was conducted freely and fairly and in an atmosphere of peace."
Harare
6. Tsvangirai arriving at post election result press conference
7. Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) flags at press conference
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Morgan Tsvangirai, Leader of Movement for Democratic Change
"This election as announced by the Registrar-General's office does not reflect the true will of the people of Zimbabwe, and is consequently illegitimate in the eyes of the people. We therefore as MDC do not accept this result.
9. Cutaway audience at press conference
Harare
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Morgan Tsvangirai, Leader of Movement for Democratic Change
"As we are talking here, the people of Zimbabwe are seething with anger, but how that anger is going to be directed in a constructive way, in a strategic way, that's for the matter of various structures of our party to discuss. We seek no confrontation with the state, because that's what it's looking for, but it is the people who themselves will have to decide in various forms what action to take."
11. Wide shot media conference
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Motsuenyane, head South African Observer Mission
"It is the view of the South African observer mission that the outcome of the 2002 Zimbabwe presidential elections should be considered as legitimate.
13. Cutaway South African flag
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Sam Motsuenyane, head South African Observer Mission
We are hopeful that now that the people of Zimbabwe have spoken, the world will respect their verdict."
15. Cutaway of presser
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Duke Lefhoko, head Southern Africa Development Community Observer Mission
"The election campaign was marred by incidences of violence in all provinces. Police and party leaders have not denied the fact that there has been violence in various forms. What seems to be in question was the perpetration of that violence. Violence was visited up on ordinary voters, party supporters and leaders alike."
Bulawayo
16. Various of ZANU PF supporters in street celebrating Mugabe's victory
(AUDIO AS INCOMING)
17. Army troops in truck going along road
18. Various of army and riot police around the regional office of the MDC
STORYLINE:
Zimbabwe's government has declared President Robert Mugabe the winner of the most bitter presidential election in the country's history, a vote observers says has been deeply marred by irregularities and ruling party violence.
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