SOUTHERN AFRICA
Spring 2004
"Rotberg Facilitates Landmark African Leadership Document"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
A landmark Code of African Leadership was unveiled in March by the African Leadership Council (ALC), a group of current and former African leaders. Belfer Center Program on Intrastate Conflict Director Robert Rotberg, who serves as the Council's Interim Executive Director, facilitated the development of the document.
Spring 2004
"Frazer Nominated to be US Ambassador to South Africa"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
Former Kennedy School Assistant Professor Jendayi Frazer's recent nomination for an appointment as the US Ambassador to South Africa came as no surprise to her Belfer Center colleagues.
May 18, 2003
Mbeki Is Avoiding the Right Course on Zimbabwe
Op-Ed, Financial Times
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Mbeki Is Avoiding the Right Course on Zimbabwe
September 16, 2002
South Africa's Free Media Have No Friend in Mbeki
Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
Free and vigorous news media are essential to democracy, especially in the developing world, where there is little other accountability. Yet vigilant media threaten those leaders who prefer unquestioned control and propaganda outlets.
Fall 2001
"The Rise and Fall of the South African Bomb"
Journal Article, International Security, issue 2, volume 26
The author examines South Africa's decision to build nuclear weapons in the 1970s and 1980s and then the unprecedented decision to dismantle them in 1990–91.
May 3, 2000
Saving Zimbabwe from Mugabe
Op-Ed, Christian Science Monitor
By Robert Rotberg, Director, Program on Intrastate Conflict and Conflict Resolution
The impending transfer of authority from Zimbabwe's increasingly discredited rulers to a newly empowered grassroots political movement is fueling savage intimidation - killings of black opponents, invasions of white-owned farms, and the assassination of white farmers.
What unites those killed, both black and white, is their support of the Movement of Democratic Change, Zimbabwe's new popular counter to the 20-year rule of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF).
