Mugabe's self-defeated foes

摘要

With senate elections due on November 26th, the Movement for Democratic Change (mdc), Zimbabwe's opposition party, looks bent on self-destruction. On paper, the row is about whether the party should take part in the elections. A faction led by Morgan Tsvangirai, the party's president, says no; another, rallying behind Welshman Ncube, the mdc's secretary-general, says yes. But the rift runs much deeper-and threatens to make the party irrelevant.