Tag: politics
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Echoes of Botswana: Will Namibia’s elections redefine the region?
*Ntibinyane Ntibinyane Namibia’s upcoming elections have sparked a flurry of speculation. Just weeks after Botswana’s ruling Botswana Democratic Party (BDP) was ousted from power after an unprecedented 58-year uninterrupted reign, many are asking whether a similar political earthquake could occur in Namibia For 34 years, the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) has dominated the…
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Why Botswana’s shift has Zimbabwe’s ZANU-PF on edge
*Ntibinyane Ntibinyane As the region and the continent at large continue to digest the outcome of the recent Botswana elections and their ramifications reverberate across borders, a bigger debate is unfolding on the changing political landscape of southern African. The debate is now more focused on the upcoming elections in neighbouring Namibia after the Botswana’s…
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How They Did It: Digging up Zimbabwe’s Gukurahundi Massacre Dossier
*Ntibinyane Ntibinyane It began with a tip-off from a former head of an international humanitarian organization who used to be based in Zimbabwe. There was an explosive dossier detailing heinous crimes of the Gukurahundi — a series of massacres of civilians carried out by the Zimbabwe National Army in the 1980s — and had been…
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