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Zec acting chairperson Mrs Joyce Kazembe today said the polling officers, who include supervisors, would be deployed at the 9 449 polling stations countrywide.

The referendum polling officers started training yesterday in all the provinces and are expected to complete tomorrow  ahead of deployment.

Zec officials are conducting the training.

“What we call referendum polling officers are being trained at various command centres beginning today and they will be deployed to their stations beginning Wednesday,” Mrs Kazembe said.

“All in all, we have 70 000 polling officers who also include supervisors.”

The polling officers have been drawn from the civil service, parastatals and local authorities.

Mrs Kazembe said returning district and constituency officers had been trained over the weekend.

Data capturers have also been trained while those for Harare province were trained on Monday.

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Meanwhile, observers from outside the country continue to arrive with a 40-member team from the Sadc Parliamentary Forum jetting into the country today.

The team is led by His Royal Highness Prince Guduza Dlamini, the speaker of the National Assembly of Swaziland and will deploy its teams to the 10 provinces beginning tomorrow.

It comprises parliamentarians from Botswana, Democratic Republic of Congo, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania and Zambia.

The mission will hold an official opening session tomorrow morning followed by an orientation and training session for delegates to acquaint them with the context and environment.