Voters were asked to back his proposals to nationalise white-owned farms and formally hand greater powers to the head of state. Zimbabwe's 75,000 whites have been constantly targeted by the official campaign. Mrs Misihairabwi and seven other activists were arrested for distributing leaflets in Highfields, a southern township of the capital, Harare. I think they will detain us for 48 hours. We are all singing in the prison cell to persuade anyone who can hear us to vote no.
Many people suspect there has been widespread ballot-rigging.
By waiting until Friday before publishing the locations of polling stations, the Government ensured that at least 40 per cent of them had no independent monitors. Many of those off the lists are white and assumed to sympathise with the no campaign. Opposition leaders have threatened a legal challenge to the referendum result because, they said, election monitors had been threatened and harassed. A leading opposition figure was detained on Sunday. Tendai Biti and several other members of the Movement for Democratic Change and the National Constitutional Assembly were taken into custody outside a polling place in a township as they urged people to vote down the proposed constitution.