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'Free polls possible'

The chance of a free and fair election in Zimbabwe is "good" if all the agreements reached as part of the political facilitation process are implemented, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, said yesterday.

The chance of a free and fair election in Zimbabwe is "good" if all the agreements reached as part of the political facilitation process are implemented, Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, said yesterday.

"If they implement the laws that parliament passed around security, information and media, and all those laws that the opposition wanted done and they all agreed [upon]," Dlamini-Zuma, pictured, said in response to a question at a press conference.

"All those things should be implemented now in the run-up and during the election - then the prospects should be good," she said, referring to agreements between President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party and factions of the opposition MDC as part of mediation effort by President Thabo Mbeki.

Zimbabwe is due to hold joint parliamentary and presidential elections on March 29. - Sapa

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