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Zimbabwean people don’t buy this. Ask most passerbys what they think about President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party and they’ll whisper urgently, “Be quiet!” They are all afraid of “getting into politics” and being marked as oppositional. Young people who criticize the government are called “sell-outs” and “white-sympathizers.” Roaming thugs beat them or send them on to the cops who, on a bad day, can lock...
...then multiplied through leveraging rhetoric in the petty tiffs of daily life. Take two teenage boys fighting over a girl at a bar. Boy number one takes boy number two aside and says, “I heard what you said about our president. You should be careful, ZANU-PF is a large party, and we wash out poisons like you.” Neither boy belongs to ZANU-PF—in fact, both probably hate the party—but boy number two will leave the club terrified and alone, while boy number one will get the girl...
...reality, the President of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, and the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) simply stole another election. Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe for 25 years, and—despite the fact that the former breadbasket of Africa has become the famine-ravaged basketcase of Africa—his iron-fisted grip on power seems unassailable...
...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 areas, where famine—thanks to Mugabe’s land...
Zimbabwe's parliamentary election was far more peaceful than the last couple of polls, but the result was the same. By late Saturday, President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party had won 78 of the 120 seats up for grabs. Together with the 30 M.P.s appointed by the President, that assures Mugabe a compliant parliament for another five years and gives him the two-thirds majority he needs to change the constitution. While most Zimbabweans are preoccupied by domestic crises - such as 80% unemployment and widespread hunger - Mugabe, who has ruled since 1980, and his party campaigned as if they...