Zuma criticises Zim poll delay
08/04/2008 20:19  - (SA)  

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Johannesburg - ANC president Jacob Zuma on Tuesday criticised the delay in declaring the results of Zimbabwe's presidential election.

Zuma, elected head of the African National Congress in December and the frontrunner to become the next president of South Africa, indicated that "keeping the nation in suspense... keeping the international community in suspense" was wrong.

"I don't think it augurs very well," he said in an interview with SABC news.

Zuma was speaking a day after meeting Morgan Tsvangirai during the Zimbabwe opposition leader's first foreign trip since the election.

Tsvangirai's Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) won control of the Zimbabwean parliament for the first time in the March 29 polls but the outcome of the simultaneous presidential election is still to be declared.

Tsvangirai has claimed outright victory but the ruling Zanu-PF says there is no clear winner and has endorsed Mugabe to run in a possible second-round run-off vote as well as demanding a complete recount.

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