Growing Pains

Twenty-eight years of one-party rule by President Robert Mugabe's ZANU-PF party was never likely to be fixed in a 100-days, which is how long the new coalition government has been in office. But the population, and indeed, the wider world's, desire to democratise Zimbabwe remains resolute, in our view. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai is managing the process well, despite allegations that some of his senior colleagues appear to have succumbed to the pecuniary lures of governmental office. The current situation can best be described as an impasse driven by ZANU-PF hardliners, but the momentum is with

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