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February 18, 2019
A Zimbabwe court Monday convicted leading oppositionfigure Tendai Biti of an election crime and fined him for announcing his ownresults for presidential polls last July, which he claimed he won.
Tendai Biti, a respected former finance minister,proclaimed his Movement for Democratic Change MDC the victor of the contestedJuly 30 poll which sparked anti-government protests that were put down bysoldiers which resulted in the death of six people in the violence.
Magistrate Gloria Takundwa ordered Biti to pay 200 dollars,the price of a full tank of petrol or go to prison for a week.
He was also handed a jail term of six months, whichwas suspended for five years.
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa, who was in court, saidthe conviction casts a very dark shadow on the country’s politics.
Zimbabwe was thrown into chaos following theelections, the first in the country’s history not to feature former presidentRobert Mugabe following his resignation in the wake of a brief militarytakeover in November 2017.