Nelson Chamisa hopes to replace the MDC, which dissolved in acrimony, with a new party that can take on the government, On 24 January, President Emmerson Mnangagwa s main opponent in the last general elections, Nelson Chamisa, launched a new political party, hoping to close the chapter of rivalries and splits that marked the demise of the country s dominant opposition party for over 20 years, the late Morgan Tsvangirai s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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President Review: Camilla Nielsson s Extraordinary Documentary Traces the Alleged Theft of an Election President Review: Camilla Nielsson s Extraordinary Documentary Traces the Alleged Theft of an Election
The Danish docmaker follows up 2014 s Democrats with another essential chapter in Zimbabwe s long, endlessly sidetracked road to democracy.
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“Democrats,” Camilla Nielsson’s superb 2014 documentary about the tortuous construction of Zimbabwe’s 2013 constitution, was most riveting as a snapshot of a country still trying democracy on for size, wary of what it saw in the mirror. Studying the troubled coalition government that paired president Robert Mugabe’s long-ruling ZANU-PF party with the more liberal opposition of Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) Alliance, Nielsson’s film posited any progress at all as fragile, easily undone by a volatile political system: Audiences might
(Pixabay) On the wondrous effects of dollarization in one Zimbabwean city.
Zimbabwe’s economy has gone through the wringer. In just 20 short years, it has witnessed two episodes of hyperinflation. And, if that wasn’t bad enough, Zimbabwe’s real GDP per capita has plunged by 21 percent over that same period.
When you visit Zimbabwe’s Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River, you will find that it is still one of the Wonders of the World in the traditional geomorphological sense. But, you will quickly discover that it is also an economic Wonder of the World. Indeed, when you enter the town of Victoria Falls, it’s as if you have walked into an alternative African economic universe. Victoria Falls is an island of stability in Zimbabwe, a country that has descended into monetary and fiscal chaos. How could this be?
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