Being Middle Class in Zimbabwe
Zimbabweans lined up to vote (Photo: Nigel Mugamue)
Zimbabwe’s electoral commission announced that President Robert Mugabe’s party has won at least a two-thirds majority in parliament. And the opposition party led by Morgan Tsvangirai has said there were widespread polling irregularities and it would not accept the results. To get a better understanding of what day to day life is like for Zimbabwe’s middle class, anchor Carol Hills speaks with Harare resident and blogger, Nigel Mugamue.
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