From Rhodesia to Zimbabwe: The Politics of Transition
Pergamon Press (for the International Peace Academy)
1981
170 pp.
Comment
Zimbabwe has been ruled by a unity government since 2008, but President Robert Mugabe and his party continue to usurp power and pillage the country's wealth.
A member of the Commonwealth observer group during the Zimbabwe election reports how the highly disparate Zimbabwean elements were held together during the electoral process largely by the political skill and determination of the British monitors-as well as the apparent recognition by all parties that the moment was finally at hand. A highly readable account of an exemplary peacemaking process.
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