EDITORIAL: Region’s voters demand change
All three parties have been operating under what might be described as Victor's logic
Something is happening in Southern Africa. What is it? One very obvious feature of the World Economic Forum in Davos is that three new leaders or leaders-designate of Southern African countries have taken to the stage. SA’s newly installed ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, Zimbabwe’s new President Emmerson Mnangagwa and new Angolan President João Lourenço were all strutting their stuff at the forum. All three leaders represent the party of liberation. Yet they represent stuttering governments with economic policies that have failed and constituents aching for renewal. A big part of that failure is common to all three: their parties are stuttering because they have become infected by corruption, and excising that corruption has become the major task of the new administrations. The question now is whether they are up to the surgical intervention required to deal with corruption in their body politic.
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