By IRNA
Pretoria : Robert Mugabe has called for a recount in Zimbabwe’s presidential election – claiming there were “errors and miscalculations” in the vote.
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai accused Mugabe of deploying loyal forces for a “war on the people” to reverse the results, which have still not been released.
“Militants are being rehabilitated,” he told a press conference, adding that the central bank was printing money “for the finance of violence” ahead of a run-off vote.
His Movement for Democratic Change party (MDC) says it won last week’s presidential election.
But the Sunday Mail said Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party had asked the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission “to recount and audit all its electoral material”.
“Consequent to the anomalies, the party has also requested that the commission defer the announcement of the presidential election result, ” the paper said in its online edition.
The newspaper also quoted Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa as saying ZANU-PF had rejected an offer from Tsvangirai to form a unity government.
The Zimbabwe High Court has postponed until today a legal bid by the opposition to force the release of the presidential voting results.
Armed police initially prevented MDC lawyers from entering the High Court before allowing them in.
Meanwhile, state-owned radio said a group of pro-Mugabe war veterans had vowed to occupy all white-owned farms in Masvingo Province.
It came amid reports that white farmers were returning to land seized by the government.
The veterans have in the past been used to intimidate Mugabe’s opponents.
In 2000, they led a wave of violent occupations of white farms as part of a policy to redistribute land to blacks.