This past weekend South Africa’s Sunday Independent published a lengthy (by op-ed standards) piece of mine on the Zim elections, which are taking place today. It continues one of my prevailing themes in the last few weeks, and indeed represents an attempt to synthesize my last month’s writing on Zim here at the FPA and elsewhere. They titled the piece “Only thing left for Zim voters is hope,” which, sadly, seems about right, though I am crossing my fingers that I’ll be proven wrong as the votes are counted in the next few days.