Zimbabwe's Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa today pledged that next year's elections will be peaceful, "free and fair" despite opposition concerns about electoral interference.<br/><br/>He was speaking on the sidelines of a conference aimed at courting South African investors in Johannesburg today.<br/><br/>The ruling ZANU-PF party, in power since independence in 1980, has a stranglehold on government and is often accused by the opposition of electoral fraud, voter intimidation and violence.<br/>'<br/>'''''''<br/>