Africa's elections this year have been marred by fraud and violence
but multiparty politics have become a fixture and parliamentarians
are beginning to pressure the hitherto untouchable presidents.
Also, a new spate of anti-corruption cases shows an increasingly
assertive judiciary.
Last month, South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka told an African Union-sponsored democracy conference in Johannesburg that elections were old news, that the key issue today was the...