President Robert Mugabe has long been at the reigns of administrative authority in Zimbabwe; not only leading the ruling ZANU-PF party, but manipulatively yielding partisan supporters positions, to further benefit his political standing. During the recent parliamentary elections in Zimbabwe, Mugabe’s ‘reign’ was seemingly thwarted, when MDC (Movement for Democratic Change) leader, Morgan Tsvangirai was ostensibly declared the winner of the elections, furthermore reforming Zimbabwe’s administration.

But bully-like authoritative demands from Mugabe have halted the proliferation of a possible MDC occupation of Zimbabwe’s government. A democratic related re-count has been called for, mainly by Mugabe and numerous ZANU-PF officials, and only chaos has in sewed within Zimbabwe’s public and the ongoing political limbo.

Quote culled directly from this article in The Economist:

“Human Rights Watch, an international group, says that ZANU-PF, the ruling party of President Robert Mugabe, has set up torture camps across the country as part of a systematic campaign to intimidate the opposition.”

Mugabe seems to be taking the most literal and obvious approach to the fact that he is ultimately ousted by an opposition –whose numbers are growing, given the treatment of the Zimbabwean people (“The MDC says that ten of its supporters have been killed, some shot dead. The opposition also says that some 3,000 families have had to flee their homes, 500 people have been put in hospital and over 400 opposition activists have been arrested.”) –and knows it.

It seems outlandish, a political figure who has already schemed a recount –presented and supported almost entirely by the ruling party– punishing those in support of an opposition who has seemingly already ousted his administration. The bitterness of Mugabe’s actions have been portrayed on a humanitarian level and although surrounding nations, mainly SADC, have not deemed Mugabe’s actions as ill-minded or out of mere anger towards election results, many African nations (Tanzania, Botswana, Kenya –who faced similar conflict) have pushed to address Mugabe’s actions. Single-dominant political factions, in power for a protracted amount of time, must be non-existent.