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Bomb explodes at Zanu PF candidate's home

Bomb explodes at Zanu PF candidate's home: "THE air of tense calm as Zimbabweans voted in general elections on Saturday was pierced by a bomb attack on the home of a Zanu PF election candidate in Emakhandeni suburb, a working class township in the second largest city of Bulawayo.
Judith Mkwanda, who is running for MP, was targeted by unknown assailants while she slept at 2AM Saturday - a petrol bomb shattering windows and rupturing a section of the roof."

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