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Scenarios for Southern Africa after Malawi’s election ‘miracle’
In 2019, Malawian President Peter Mutharika won a second term with a narrow margin. But the opposition coalition, alleging irregularities, brought the matter to court and obtained an annulment of the results. A second election in June 2020 saw the opposition leader peacefully elected – an anomaly in a region where entrenched liberation parties tend to crack down on any threat to their authority.
South Africa lurches toward uncompensated land seizures
The politically explosive land question has been revived in South Africa at an awkward moment. A motion by the Marxist-Leninist opposition to allow farmland to be expropriated without compensation hit the ruling African National Congress (ANC) as it was beset by corruption scandals, a slumping economy, and widespread voter disillusionment ...
Zimbabwe’s Mnangagwa faces political, social and economic crises
Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa has a daunting task ahead. He has indicated he wants to engage with the West, encourage investment and open up the country’s politics. But elements inside his own party are holding him back. The military wing of the ZANU-PF, led by Vice President Constantin Chiwenga, seems ...
Elections in Zimbabwe: An African tragedy
A richly endowed country, Africa’s former breadbasket Zimbabwe, has become a basket case of a state due to idiosyncratic policies, systemic plundering and violence after 1980, when alleged “liberation” forces, in fact terror groups, took power. The nonagenarian dictator Robert Mugabe was finally removed in a palace coup, but the ...
Troubled Zimbabwe starts to think about life after Mugabe
Robert Mugabe still presides over the chaotic country of Zimbabwe at the age of 90. Amid regular reports that his health is failing, political succession has become a major issue. The major opposition party, the MDC, was heavily defeated in the 2013 elections by Mr Mugabe’s Zanu-PF, in which two ...
