So yesterday’s “historic announcement” was confirmation from both Morgan Tsavngirai and Arthur Mutambara that the two MDC factions were to reunite – if I was being picky, I’d point out that it’s hardly ‘historic’ to return to the party’s starting point, but it’s significant in that it gives the MDC an overall majority in the House of Assembly (technically, while the two MDC factions were separate it was a hung house) and evens up the numbers in the Senate. It also presents a united front to Zanu-PF.

A few other key points from the joint press conference given by the two faction leaders:
- MDC would form a government of national unity and this may include former Zanu-PF candidates and independent candidate Simba Makoni;
- the two of them were speaking out against violence – they issued a request to stop violence, and relayed the message to Mugabe that these are crimes against humanity;
- regarding the election ‘count fight’ between ZEC and Zanu PF: MT will raise disputes if the results don’t tally with theirs;
- MDC are working for the peaceful transfer of power and putting national interests ahead of personal interests; and
- there will be no run-off – “the people have spoken”.

I had been hoping the press conference, which was called on very short notice, would be related to the Presidential poll results, but sadly not. Back to the waiting game.