African States Taking Cue From Zimbabwe’s Policies

AFRICANGLOBE - May 12, 2014

Political parties championing resource nationalism are gaining popularity in Africa’s body politic.
By embarking on successful land reforms and empowering Zimbabweans through indigenisation and empowerment laws, Zanu-PF has remained the dominant player in Zimbabwe’s politics.
Now, other African parties of like mind are following suit.
Barely eight months after its formation, South Africa’s Economic Freedom Fighters — led by firebrand politician Julius Malema — made tremendous inroads in the May 7, 2014 polls with more than one million votes.
The party, which wants to nationalise mines and banks and pursue land reforms, yesterday had 6.2 percent of the vote with most ballots counted.
The result made EFF the third largest political party in South Africa and is on course to get around 20 seats in that country’s parliament.
A “political infant”, the EFF also scored big in North West province where it is now the official opposition to the ruling African National Congress party, which had 62.4 percent of the national vote at the time of writing.

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