Monday, January 28, 2008

Zimbabwe 2008: The triumph of the politics of fear

It is now a reality that the harmonised polls will be held on 29 March 2008.
Only last year this time, the conventional wisdom in many opposition circles was that President Mugabe would not secure the mandate of his party as a candidate when his term expired let alone him being democratically endorsed as candidate of the party for the 2008 elections.
Many experts advanced the notion that Mugabe would not last the year as the head of state and ZANU-PF will disintegrate into tribal factions. A combination of internal party contradictions and confusion was meant to facilitate the exit of Mugabe from the political scene.

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