South African President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Zimbabwe Friday, where he is meeting with President Robert Mugabe. March 29 election results were delayed for one month; election officials say opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, of the Movement for Democratic Change, garnered just 47.9 percent of the vote, compared to Mugabe's 43.2 percent, which will mean a run off – results which Tsvangirai, disputes. Meanwhile, doctors are reporting a massive rise in post-election violence: groups of loyal Mugabe youth have taken to rural areas, where they have brutally beaten opposition members to death. At least 32 opposition members have been targeted and killed so far, and 40,000 farmers have been forced off their land since the election; while many in Zimbabwe are bracing for a possible economic and political collapse. FSRN Anchor Aura Bogado spoke with Grace Kwinjeh, founder and national executive member for the main opposition party the Movement for Democratic Change, and the chair-person of the Global Zimbabwe Forum, a network of Zimbabweans in the diaspora.

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