Democracy as made in Africa, Zimbabwe sets impractical date
African perspective on retention of sound democratic systems in the continent may be long overdue. After prolonged silence on the Zimbabwe factor Felix Kilonzo turns to the paper two of forced marriage kind of leadership. Kenya and Zimbabwe share a lot in common for the last 30 or so years but of great importance is how the presidency manipulates elections to continue clinching on unpopular power strategy. Its now official that Zimbabwe goes to polls on July 31 after the Supreme court directed the president to decide on the elections date a move that has attracted the so called ‘rare unity’ among the chief opposition political parties who includes Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of MDC-T and other key political leaders protested the move to near the elections taking in to account the country promulgated a new constitution on May 22. According to a Zimbabwean newspaper, its reported that on Wednesday five parties – the MDC, led by the prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, a breaka