An Analysis of Democratic Transition in Zimbabwe and the Clamour for Leadership Renewal. A Case study Of Zimbabwe’s political Experiences and the Hegemony of ZANU PF From 2000-2013
Political systems and processes in Zimbabwe have attracted much commentary and attention in the world over, with much attention hinged and fixated on elections and the amassment of political hegemony by ZANU PF despite ruling in a dire state of a crippled and plummeting economy that s...
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| Language: | English |
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2017
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| Summary: | Political systems and processes in Zimbabwe have attracted much commentary and
attention in the world over, with much attention hinged and fixated on elections and the
amassment of political hegemony by ZANU PF despite ruling in a dire state of a crippled
and plummeting economy that should be inciting social and political dissent. Elections
are associated with vote rigging, political violence and unscrupulous political activities
that range from appointment of party loyalist in key, strategic and influential positions
that define and determine politics of the day. The cry has been that such appointments
have been in electoral and state institutions that have the mandate to necessitate
democratic transition, the partisan appointments have led to a manifestation of the
hiring of white collar electoral fraudsters who miraculously Nikuv elections to the favour
of the mostly contested hegemonic political player ZANU PF. This study adopted a
qualitative approach to its gathering of information regarding the hegemony of ZANU
PF in Zimbabwe’s political experiences and processes, in its qualitative nature it
attempted to gain an understanding of the underlying reasons and factors driving the
political happenings and establish how people interpret the hegemony of ZANU PF, the
interpretation of the Zimbabweans’ perception of the state of affairs was thereby
established through the use of questionnaires and focus group discussions that showed a
true reflection of the political realities on the ground with an aid of purposive sampling.
Established was that the hegemony of ZANU PF is convolutedly tied to the lack of
political resilience and charisma amongst opposition parties, incompetent political
parties, partisan legal systems that favour the incumbent and general stateism.
Strategically, with a great level of political astuteness, ZANU PF has seemingly been
identified with using the containment-elimination approach in gobbling up its political
opponents and adopting a political illusory approach to deceive its opposition by
creating facades of democracy that hinder a transition of political power through
elections. Notwithstanding is that Zimbabwe needs thoroughly nurturing of political
leadership in schools, political parties and if necessary establish political academies to
help inculcate a spirit of political leadership in order for political competition to be
feasibly witnessed in Zimbabwe’s democratic transition story. |
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