News24 | Jeremy Seekings | Zambia’s democratic slide hits home as Stellenbosch scholar silenced

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The writer reflects on the rapid descent into autocratic abuse of power by the country’s president, Hakainde Hichilema, including the revocation of the passports of academics critical of his government.

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