If the state of Zimbabwe's inclusive Government in 2012 was to be described in one word, then "dysfunctional" would tersely explain the relations among the three governing parties. While since 2009 the leaders had pretended that all was well within their marriage, things came to a head in 2012 as their patience with each other ran out and the spectre of new elections became a reality.
Zimbabwe will have to go to elections next year following the end of the five-year life of the current Parliament which began in 2009. Although the marriage has subsisted this long, the differences characterising it have been dramatic.
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