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Few can doubt the proposition that there is an important difference between information and knowledge, and that more of the former does not necessarily lead to the latter. Whereas a great deal has been written from all manner of perspectives about the situation in Africa both before and since independence, the resulting corpus of literature has seldom yielded a mainstream understanding of basic aspects of state politics. Doubtless many feel that the more they read about the continent, the less they known about what is going on and why.

Im Gefolge eines Korruptionsskandals wurde in Simbabwe eine Oppositionsbewegung gegründet, die "Zimbabwe Unity Movement" (ZUM). Kurze Beschreibung des Skandals und der Gründe zur Formierung der ZUM. Diskussion des Verhältnisses von Demokratie und nationaler Einheit: Grundlagen der Entwicklung in Simbabwe; Unterschiede zu Angola und Mosambik; ideologische Widersprüche innerhalb der ZANU und zwischen ZANU und ZUM. (DÜI-Wsl)

The debate on whether or not to introduce a de jure one-party state in Zimbabwe has been a contested issue since independence but especially in 1990 with the expiry of certain sections of the Lancaster House Constitution whose provisions ruled out the one-party system. The debate has extended to questions on the accountability of government and party institutions, the forms and levels of popular democratic participation in those institutions and the relationship between civil society and the state. This book presents contributions of Zimbabwean intellectuals, public figures, journalists, trade unionists and students. Most of them counsel against the adoption of the one-party state model arguing that it is an anachronistic and undemocratic system which restricts democratic space which is the right of the masses to have