Mozambique: Comment – In Early Elections Teachers Were Good MMVs, But Not Now

In the early multiparty elections 1994 and 1999 the choice of teachers to be senior polling station officials was a good idea. They were educated and had experience running classes, at a time when there were relatively few literate people for those jobs, and most did a good and neutral job. And it was accepted that teachers would have to miss two weeks of classes for training.

In the 1999 election staff were too neutral and Renamo’s Afonso Dhlaka probably won – and central STAE computer staff were…