JOHANNESBURG — If Zimbabwe’s election this week delivers a win for the party he supports, Gilbert Zondo could be back home by the end of the year, reviving the teaching career he abandoned five years ago to live in exile in South Africa."It would be nice to stand in a classroom again and do the job I was trained for," Mr Zondo, from Bulawayo, and in his 40s, said in Johannesburg as he sat in a bus loading passengers for a trip to Zimbabwe’s second city.Several million Zimbabweans left their country in the decade before 2009, fleeing political turmoil and an economic meltdown that slashed real wages. Many say they went abroad to escape persecution by President Robert Mugabe’s dominant Zanu (PF), which critics accuse of using intimidation to stay in power.Mr Zondo is among a trickle of Zimbabweans heading back to vote in Wednesday’s poll, when the 89-year-old president will bid to extend his 33 years in power in a closely watched vote.In depth: Zimbabwe pollNews, views and analysis of...
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