Zimbabwean politicians have geared up to full campaign mode as the nation heads towards its harmonised general elections on 23 August 2023. The polls will determine presidential, senate, parliamentary and local council elected roles and, ultimately, who shall rule Zimbabwe, its cities and towns for the next five years. Ruling party, ZANU-PF, has retained its grip on power for the last 43 years and is not likely to relinquish control easily. Not surprisingly, election skulduggery and malfeasance have been quick to raise their ugly heads.
Double, double toil and trouble
Zimbabwe election fever is beginning to brew. Once again we seem destined to be sliding down the slippery slope of electoral farce and abuse of the democracy everybody so craves. The mood is gearing down towards long standing protectionism of the ‘struggle’, versus the real need for change; adoration of the 'revolutionary' saviour party, rather than tolerance of the nouveau that may bring change; and hero worship of its decrepit, but now fast disappearing, old guard, revolutionary leadership, than new faces at the helm.
Book Review: Death Flight by Michael Schmidt
This book is the product of research uncovering of some of South Africa's darkest secrets during the last years of Apartheid. The revealing expose, was, seemingly, overlooked at the time by the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions' (TRC) investigators. It reiterates the now clearly obvious belief that civil wars, political insurgencies and mass civil disobedience spawn the most grotesque and inhumane crimes on either side of the fray. South Africa was no exception.
South of the African Equator 