Politics
The Second Chimurenga and its aftermath has for years inclined the popular vote from the district towards Robert Mugabe's ZANU PF. However, the socio-economic recession that has been part and parcel of Zimbabwe's fabric has been steadily tilting the people toward's the opposition MDC, as witnessed by Mugabe's defeat in the March 29 Presidential election.
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Famous quotes containing the word politics:
“The Germans—once they were called the nation of thinkers: do they still think at all? Nowadays the Germans are bored with intellect, the Germans distrust intellect, politics devours all seriousness for really intellectual things—Deutschland, Deutschland Über alles was, I fear, the end of German philosophy.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“Beware the politically obsessed. They are often bright and interesting, but they have something missing in their natures; there is a hole, an empty place, and they use politics to fill it up. It leaves them somehow misshapen.”
—Peggy Noonan (b. 1950)
“Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion.”
—Richard M. Nixon (b. 1913)