Zimbabwe’s unity government has reached the hundred days mark. This is a landmark of sorts, I suppose, albeit a rather artificial one. We live in an age of instant punditry, but my best interpretation of the plight of Zimbabwe is to reserve judgment. Governments are not based on increments of a hundred days (I think the obsession with the first hundred days of an American presidency is silly as well, as I pointed out in a public lecture here at the University of Keele last week) and so let us see how things play out. The country is surely in better shape than it was a hundred one days ago, but that strikes me as a rather low bar to clear.
