Zimbabwe’s Eroding Authoritarianism

Issue Date January 1997
Volume 8
Issue 1
Page Numbers 127-41
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About the Author

Masipula Sithole, associate professor of political science at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare, is the author of Zimbabwe’s Public Eye: Political Essays (1998). He is a founding member of the National Constitutional Assembly (NCA) and is on the editorial board of Agenda, the NCA’s major publication.

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