The new chairman of Zimbabwe’s electoral commission will oversee his Herculean task to overhaul the country’s skewed electoral system from his Namibian base, an online news agency reported Friday.

The MDC dismisses the clandestine and nicodemous gazetting of regulations calling for all foreign investors to cede 51 percent of their investment to ‘indigenous people

Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said he has rejected as “null and void” regulations published yesterday requiring companies valued at more than $500,000 to be black owned.

The regulations were passed without “due process” and have no force as they were gazetted without consultation with government, according to a statement published on his Web site, dated yesterday.