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Zim's Constitution

In ten days Zimbabwe will embark on the process of writing a new constitution. This process will either represent a great step forward for Zimbabwe’s future or will mark President Robert Mugabe’s last intransigent stand. Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai knows that his fellow Zimbabweans still live in fear. The question is whether the constitution-writing process will alleviate or exacerbate those fears.

 

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Derek Catsam

Derek Catsam is a Professor of history and Kathlyn Cosper Dunagan Professor in the Humanities at the University of Texas of the Permian Basin. He is also Senior Research Associate at Rhodes University. Derek writes about race and politics in the United States and Africa, sports, and terrorism. He is currently working on books on bus boycotts in the United States and South Africa in the 1940s and 1950s and on the 1981 South African Springbok rugby team's tour to the US. He is the author of three books, dozens of scholarly articles and reviews, and has published widely on current affairs in African, American, and European publications. He has lived, worked, and travelled extensively throughout southern Africa. He writes about politics, sports, travel, pop culture, and just about anything else that comes to mind.

Areas of Focus:
Africa; Zimbabwe; South Africa; Apartheid

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