ZIMBABWE NETZWERK e.V.

Zimbabwean Politics in the Post 2013 Elections Period: The Constraints of 'Victory'

Brian Raftopoulos writes at Solidarity Peace Trust:" Zanu PF's and Mugabe's overwhelming electoral `victory' in July 2013 was the result of a combination of the continuing legacy of firmly inscribed memories of post-colonial violence, Zanu PF's persistent legitimacy from the liberation struggle, the declining fortunes of the opposition MDCs, the combination of coercion and patronage by the ruling party in context of a reconstructed political economy, regional solidarity for the `party of liberation, and the limits of international pressure on the Zimbabwean crisis. ...".