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Two candidates aim to end Robert Mugabe's 28-year rule in Zimbabwe and haul the country out of near economic collapse. Zimbabweans go to the polls this weekend (March 29) in presidential elections. Eighty-four-year-old Robert Mugabe, in power for 28 years, is running for yet another term in office. Backed by his ZANU-PF party he says he's confident of a win. At a recent rally he told supporters he would not budge and the country would never become a colony again. Zimbabwe is in crisis and Mugabe blames it all on the west. He says economic sanctions slapped on the country are designed to punish him for his radical land reforms of the year 2000 when about 4,500 white farmers were evicted by war veterans. Those who took over the commercial farms lack equipment and Zimbabwe now has to import food from its neighbours. With an inflation rate of over 100,000 percent the country is also facing its worst economic emergency: 1 USD is equivalent to 35,000,000 Zimbabwean dollars. Soaring unemployment has forced many to leave the country in order to survive. About 5,000 illegal Zimbabweans enter South Africa daily and there are already an estimated 3,500,000 Zimbabwean economic refugees globally. It's why opposition leader Morgan Tsvagirai wants to remove President Mugabe. This has been the sole mission of his Movement for Democratic Change party or MDC since the year 2002. His supporters say its time to give Mugabe the red card, the symbol used to expel a player from a soccer game...