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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 with the vision of a “rainbow” society. Racialized land seizures may serve as a brief political diversion, but as the case of Zimbabwe shows, it will only make the underlying problems worse.
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 ...
An uncertain road ahead for Zimbabwe in election year
Robert Mugabe, 89, is expected to be re-elected president after 33 years in power in elections due before the end of July 2013. But the focus this time will be as much on the choice of his main running mate for vice president as on him. If a president fails ...
Geopolitics: What impact will hero's death have on Zimbabwe politics?
The death of war hero and politician Solomon Mujuru in a mysterious fire has alerted conspiracy theorists in Zimbabwe. But what will it mean for who succeeds President Robert Mugabe asks a GIS expert in this briefing. CONSPIRACY theories are being floated following the suspicious death of one of Zimbabwe’s ...
