Zimbabweans will participate in what could well be the country’s most significant election in July or August. The fate of the country’s 16m population could hinge on how the election is conducted and perceived. Anver Versi looks at the main contestants.
After the general election in Nigeria in February, the next most significant election in Anglophone Africa will be in Zimbabwe in July or August.
There is huge interest in the conduct and outcome of this election, particularly from Zimbabwe’s neighbours, especially South Africa, as well as the broader Southern, Eastern and Central Africa.
Zimbabwe has always occupied a special emotional, as well as ethical space in the African collective psyche, from the brutal wars of liberation against Ian Smith’s racist regime, to a glorious decade following independence in 1980, to Robert Mugabe locking horns with the British government over land reforms, to the virtual banishment of the country from all forms…
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