Zimbabweans Head to the Polls in Crucial Election

(29 March 08-RV) Zimbabweans voted today in the most crucial election since independence from Britain in 1980, many of them desperate to end the misery of economic collapse under veteran President Robert Mugabe. The country's once prosperous economy in ruins, Zimbabwe is suffering the world's highest inflation rate, chronic shortages of food and fuel, and a rampant HIV/AIDS epidemic. We spoke with Bev Clark of the Kubatana Trust of Zimbabwe, who told us more about the feeling on the streets during today’s vote.