At Pambazuka News Patrick Bond and Grace Kwinjeh provide a trenchant overview of Zimbabwe's “political roller-coaster.” Meanwhile reports of intimidation of opposition supporters continue to emerge. If a tragedy represents a series of events in which the inevitable outcome is visible to the audience but not to the protagonists, Zimbabwe's election is shaping up to be a classic tragedy (with the caveat that Robert Mugabe, at least, knows exactly what is going to happen).
