The man who knows the secrets of Mugabe's re-election is Tobaiwa Mudede, the Registrar-General, the outspokenly pro-Mugabe official who runs all Zimbabwe's elections. More than a month before the election Mudede told a meeting at the International School in Harare that he could imagine no circumstances in which he would declare anyone other than Mugabe the election winner. Pictures in the state-run Herald of how the results were announced are almost beyond parody. In the centre sits Obriel Mpofu, who announced the results on TV, flanked by Mudede and a series of other Mugabe loyalists, including the Police Commissioner, Augustine...