It's now 17 days since the election and yesterday the high court rejected the request by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) for the results to be released. As promised, the opposition party has now called a general strike.
As 80% of Zimbabweans don't have jobs to stay away from, it's questionable whether the strike will have much impact. Some younger elements may go for the more raucous, and illegal, option of street protests.
We'll be keeping an eye on how the situation develops.
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9:45am
Well, it seems that traffic in Harare has been as strong as ever this morning, so no sign yet that people are staying away from work. Though they'd been talking of it for a while, the MDC only really announced the strike last night - that's not much time for publicity.
10am
One of the things the MDC wants to avoid is the threatened recount (the MDC thinks it will surely overturn its victories). Today, one of the authors of Zimbabwe's new electoral law says that such a recount would be illegal. Welshman Ncube is a member of the MDC, but see what you think of his argument.
10:30am
SW Radio has seen MDC strike fliers. One says, "Zimbabweans have been taken for granted for too long, we demand presidential results be announced now".
Another states that the MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai won the election with 50.3% of the vote and there is no need for a run-off, while another one is targeted at the business community.
SW Radio also reports that the MDC would like the strike or "stayaway" to last for an indefinite period ... or until the results are announced.
10:45am
One organisation is bravely stoking the MDC's strike. Sokwanele, consistently agitating for the MDC throughout, today exorts Zimbabweans to stay at home and ring mates to make sure they do too.
11am
Posting on the Sokwanele blog, Hope relays stories of soldiers chasing people through the streets of Glen Norah, Harare, this morning, and later in the morning that a bus was burnt in the Warren Park township of the city.
According to her source, companies in the industrial sites of Harare have reported a less than 50% turnout by staff ... which if even nearly accurate would be good news for the MDC.
Hold on. Hope also reports that an email sent in to Sokwanele this morning indicates many - or at least the sender - were not aware of the general strike until too late. The emailer tells Hope:
"Even myself was not aware until this morning when I was already at work."
1:30pm
Our man in Harare, Chris McGreal, says the strike has "been a bit of a flop". He's not surprised: "the 20% that do have jobs in Zimbabwe need the money". He does however report that the mini-bus drivers who drive workers into the centre of Harare from the townships did go on strike this morning. Other than that, "if you were in the centre of Harare, you wouldn't have noticed."
1:45pm
An interesting development from South Africa. The ANC has issued a statement saying they think the situation in Zimbabwe "dire". This is at odds with Thabo Mbeki's softly softly approach. He's said that he thinks the elections in Zim were "normal". Mbeki no longer heads up the ANC, though he's still president of the country.
3pm
The ANC has said it will "make contact directly" with the Zanu-PF and also the MDC "with a view to having dialogue on the situation in Zimbabwe." Mbeki is supposed to be mediating the situation... the ANC evidently think they can do a better job.
4pm
The MDC may be emboldened by the ANC's stridency today but it will be slightly frustrated that the high court has just postponed their stop-the-recount hearing. The MDC want to block the state-run election commission's move to recount votes in 23 constituencies. They will now get to persuade the court of their case one day later. Why has the court delayed it?
(We now have a change of author on this post, with me - Peter Walker - taking over from the departing Allegra.)
5pm
Further upping the stakes, the MDC is now saying it will only take part in any future presidential runoff vote if the poll is administered by an organisation from outside Zimbabwe. A spokesman for Tsvangirai says the country's electoral commission "has no capacity to run any credible election", AP reports.
