Multiparty Democracy and Militarised Transition

This chapter focuses on how elections in Zimbabwe over the years could have been exercises in wasting time and critiques the role of the military in election processes and in guaranteeing ZANU-PF’s hegemonic control of the state. It starts with the elections held in 2008 and ends with an analysis of the political and military episodes of 2017 that unconstitutionally removed Mugabe from power.