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: Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning by Nigel Biggar
Book Review: The British Empire has been overly criticised, so much so that some, like the book's author, view this as a "slanderous caricature that equates British colonialism with slavery and racism"[1]; and thus the embodiment of evil. The leftist cult of anti-colonialism, certainly in Africa, has its origins in the Cold War, in nationalism and decolonisation expediently accelerated in the 1960s.
South of the African Equator 