news bulletins – answers

Tsvangirai speaks out

true/false

1. Tsvangirai states that his party denies that the planned election is really an election at all. T
2. He will now go to war. F: Mugabe has ‘declared war’ and ‘they will (his party) not be a part of it’
3. The reporter feels that he is pulling a stunt to attract world attention. F: this is what he says but we don’t know what he feels
4. Tsvangirai is a criminal. F: he is being treated like a criminal
5. He has gone to Holland. F: He is in the Dutch Embassy in Zimbabwe
6. His party are preparing for the election. F: they pulled out of it because the ‘circumstances were almost impossible to run an election’
7. In a quarter of the country they are unable to deploy their polling agents. F: three quarters of the country
8. The country is almost inaccessible. T
9. The March election result was respected. F: it ‘must be respected’ implying that it wasn’t
10. He will leave the embassy soon. F: when it is feasible – so not sure when