EDITORIAL: SADC's Shameful Silence on Tanzania's One-Party Election
There comes a time when silence becomes complicity — and the Southern African Development Community (SADC) has once again chosen to be complicit.
Today, as millions of Tanzanians troop to the polls, the spectacle unfolding is not an election — it is a coronation, choreographed and sealed long before the first ballot was cast.
Yet, SADC — that regional body supposedly tasked with safeguarding democracy, peace, and stability — has chosen to clap politely from the sidelines, issuing hollow statements about “peaceful elections” while democracy is being strangled in plain sight.
President Arthur Peter Mutharika, as Chairperson of the SADC Organ on Politics, Defence and Security, has urged Tanzanians to “vote in large numbers” and “exercise their democratic right.”
Noble words, but tragically detached from the truth.
Author's summary: SADC remains silent on Tanzania's one-party election.
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