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Summary APC3701 - The Politics Of Southern Africa - ten (10) themes identified by Moore (2014: 104 – 110) that can guide an inquiry into democracy in Zimbabwe.

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Write an essay in which you name and critically discuss the ten (10) themes identified by Moore (2014: 104 – 110) that can guide an inquiry into democracy in Zimbabwe.

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According to Moore (2014;101),’’[a] combination of trickery, coercion, populism, the
connivance of its regional peers, and the opposition’s flat-footedness resulted in a
ZANU-PF ‘victory’ in the election of 31 July 2013’’. The ZANU-PF conquered the
main opposition MDC. ‘’The results of the July 31 – and what led up to them – may
have sounded democracy’s death knell’’.
This summary will be focusing on if democracy in Zimbabwe – “lite” (liberal and
concerning Schumpeterian élites) and “thick” (expanding participation in all social
spheres) forms – died?
George Charamba from the ZANU-PF claimed that his party’s ideology was originally
hegemonic and that liberal (democratic or Western) ideologies do not suit Zimbabwe.
Politics pure and simple is hard work of alliance-building and organisation.
’’It is certainly not easy to create a democratic modus vivendi with the dead of past
disenfranchisement’’ - (Chinaka 2013; Moore 2005). ’’[C]ivil society activists and
politicians who do not agree with Charamba’s assertion that Zimbabweans have
conceded to ZANUPF’s ideological hegemony, serious interrogation of the election’s
politics is warranted’’.
TIG
TIG or ’government of national unity’ and concludes that the ZANU-PF used the
period of co-governance to consolidate its party structures and systems, strengthen
its networks of power and accumulation; according to Kriger 2012.
Lifestyle
Corruption and corrupt lifestyles are evident in the process of ambition and to
acquire power. The African lessons are clear, unless one believes Africans admire
‘big men (and women)’ and that politicians can invoke God one minute and chase
Mammon the next.
Ignoring opinion polls
Public opinion polls in 202 and 2013 gave ample warning both of the @eclipse of the
MCD-T’s golden era (Booysen 2012, forthcoming; Bratton and Masunungure 2012)
and of its losing the election, but the MDC-T ignored disaster’s portents.
Ignoring intelligence
Zimbabwe’s intelligence community is regarded as indiscreet and unsecured.
Meaning that it shares more than it conceals. The reports of ZANU-PF’s plans to
cheat, with the help of the Israeli election, with possessed sophisticated computer
technology for fixing elections (Birrell 2013; Silverstein 2013; Sole 2013).

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