"IF you take two Zimbabweans to the moon, leave them there and visit them the next morning, they would have formed three political parties," the late Professor Masipula Sithole, one of Zimbabwe's most venerated political scientists, once remarked.
Although his remarks were in jest, they served to highlight how Zimbabweans are fond of forming political parties.
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