CHRIS ROPER: Fight the dying of the democratic light

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In Zimbabwe — as in South Africa — the ‘bad guys’ are trying, by legislative and legal means, to stifle justice and evade accountability. If apathetic citizens allow them to succeed, the democratic project will be lost, writes ChrisRoper.

I was in Namibia last week, attending a conference on information and communications rights in Africa and eating a lot of beef.

Namibians are inordinately proud of their beef, though conference centre catering is probably not the best way to showcase it. Discussing this and other useful Namibian myths with other delegates, I proffered the information that Windhoek is habitually voted Africa’s cleanest city. But when I googled that to make sure, it turned out that Kigali, Rwanda, now tops all the polls. Another victory for dictatorships over democracies, alas. And there have been quite a few of those recently. ..

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