RELIGN M132 Chapter Notes - Chapter N/A: Botswana Democratic Party, Grace Mugabe, Robert Mugabe

• School: UCLA
• Department: Religion, Study of
• Course: RELIGN M132
• Professor: Kathlyn Cooney

Document Summary

The zimbabwe african national union patriotic front (zanu pf) is currently in charge of the former, and the botswana democratic party (bdp) is currently in charge of the latter. Yet, how politics worked in each of these regimes has been dramatically different. In zimbabwe, robert mugabe was the regime"s only leader from 1980 to 2017, and even though he was 93 at the time of his overthrow he showed little intention of ever stepping down prior. His wife, grace mugabe, stated in 2017, for example, that he should run as a corpse in the 2018 elections if he died before the vote. 1. In botswana, by contrast, ian khama is the regime"s fourth leader and, due to term limits, likely to step down once his term expires. 3. Moreover, though botswana is considered authoritarian in this book because of evidence of unequal playing fields in its elections,5 a number of observers actually classify it as democratic. 6 in other words,