Mugabe will step down if he loses tomorrow. That's a big if.

July 31, 2013 03:30

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe stated bluntly today that if he loses tomorrow's elections he will step down, the first time the strong man has openly said so to the international media.

Yet on the eve of Zimbabwe's long-awaited vote '" which comes after more than three decades of uninterrupted rule by Mr. Mugabe, who led Southern Rhodesia to become an majority-ruled independent nation in 1980 '" the question is whether the fix for him is already in.

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