SA will only take stand on elections after poll

South Africa will not take a stand on the fairness of Zimbabwe's elections until after the poll, Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad said on Monday. Pahad said South Africa would try to help ensure that tension in the country abated so that the elections could go ahead. "Our main objective has to be to meet with all groups to try to ensure that conditions are created for the easing of tensions, and that the election does take place," Pahad told reporters in Pretoria. Pahad said South Africa's own observers would only report back after the elections. "I have to wait for them to inform me what their analysis is. I can't sit here and analyse what is going on there," he said. "We will wait for the reports about the situation there, on the basis of which we will also have to make some judgement."