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Nelson Chamisa has the opportunity to foster peace, tolerance and democracy within Zimbabwe’s main opposition party.
To stem the tide of the current crisis before it totally overwhelms President Mnangagwa and the ruling Zanu-PF, he needs to immediately cease the brutal onslaught on civilians.
Zimbabweans face a complicated array of choices at the polls.
Zimbabwe’s upcoming elections potentially marks the start of a new order in the country, where the stakes are extremely high.
Emmerson Mnangagwa has a struggle on his hands as president of Zimbabwe, but he doesn’t face much of a challenge from the opposition.
Despite spirited efforts to douse the flames of infighting within the MDC-T, matters came to a head at a recent rally in Chitungwiza.
Morgan Tsvangirai’s unique power was that he made Zimbabweans excited about the idea of change.
But for ZANU-PF’s coercion, Tsvangirai could well have ushered in a democratic era in Zimbabwe as the country’s second president.
Changing the South African system to allow for direct election would require the country to look carefully at how a directly elected president should be held accountable to parliament.
Zimbabweans have every right to celebrate the end of Robert Mugabe’s long and disastrous reign, but they would be wrong to assume that this is the end of their political problems.
Zimbabwe’s new leader needs to shake off his infamous reputation and the suspicion that he is merely another Mugabe in a younger frame.
After the fall of autocratic ruler Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe faces a difficult choice between the stability of a transnational government or a potentially divisive election contest.
With their cavalier power plays and gross economic negligence, the Mugabes squandered the goodwill of crucial backers.
Zimbabwe’s ruling party is facing a wave of online and offline protest.
The new forms of protest in Zimbabwe raise the possibility that the country’s long-simmering crisis may have reached boiling point. The time could indeed be ripe for a unique form of politics.
Opposition parties have emerged at different stages of Zimbabwe’s post-independence history but none have seriously threatened ZANU-PF dominance.
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Fellow, Clare Hall, University of Cambridge; Professor of Development Studies, University of Johannesburg
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Professor of World Politics, SOAS, University of London
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Associate Professor of Sociology & Director of the Centre for Data Ethics at the Institute for Intelligent Systems, University of Johannesburg
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Professor, Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa (UNISA), University of South Africa
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Founding Director of Program on Intrastate Conflict, Harvard Kennedy School
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Professor of Democracy, University of Birmingham
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DLitt et DPhil Student in Politics, University of South Africa
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Professor, University of Fort Hare
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Research Fellow, African development and democracy, University of Sussex
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Professor of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand
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Acting Director: Institute for Pan-African Thought & Conversation, University of Johannesburg
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Associate Professor, Department of Journalism, Film and Television, and Vice Dean Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg
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Research Fellow under South African Research Chair: Cities, Law and Environmental Sustainability (CLES) Faculty of Law, North-West University
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Part-time Lecturer, African History and Politics, University of Zimbabwe
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Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for Africa Studies in the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State
