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...mystery why the opposition Movement for Democratic Change’s (MDC) parliamentary seats fell from 57 to 41; the election deck, as always, was stacked wildly in Mugabe??€™s favor. Mugabe directly appoints 30 members of the parliament, which means that the MDC needs to win 76 seats to have a simple majority while the ZANU-PF only needs 71 seats to have a two-thirds majority. The ZANU-PF supports this structural advantage through gang violence, voter intimidation, and shameless abuse of food aid. Simply put, voting for the MDC is a death sentence in rural...
These tragic conditions are a direct result of Mugabe??€™s attack on his opponents and those who support them, of wholesale government mismanagement, of regime-wide corruption and looting of the national purse and of Mugabe??€™s continuing attack on the commercial farmers who once were the backbone of Zimbabwe’s prosperity and jobs...
...active harassment and some ballot rigging, the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) last month managed to win more municipal seats in country-wide elections than the government party and now controls almost all of the major cities, including Harare and Bulawayo. But it is not yet clear whether Mugabe??€™s regime will in fact permit the MDC victors effectively to exercise their new powers in the cities. A few months ago, the MDC mayor of Harare was suspended—illegally—and frog-marched out of his office...
Mark G. Chavunduka, who vocally advocated the freedom of the press and his opposition to President Robert Mugabe??€™s government, was selected by Harvard University’s Nieman Fellows to receive this year’s Louis Lyons Award for Conscience and Integrity in Journalism...
...privately owned publication became a forum for criticism of Mugabe??€™s government. In January 1999, Chavunduka and Ray Choto, the chief reporter at The Standard, were arrested and brutally tortured after the newspaper published a story reporting an alleged military coup against Mugabe...