Intraparty wrangles in MMD worry AVAP – Saturday post

Description
The article is about intraparty fighting in the Movement for Multi-party Democracy (MMD), which resulted in the expulsion of Kasama District Chair Brillian Sefuke.

Analysis
The story highlighted the participation of female leaders in political processes and how power relations play in intraparty conflicts. The story is gender-aware in that it gives agency to the female leader who has been expelled from the MMD. The woman openly challenges the national executive committee and also the MMD to be democratic and treat politicians, both women and men, fairly.

Headline
The headline summarises the article. Judging from the content of the story, the headline is not judgemental and does not place blame on any named source.

Sources
There are two main sources in the story, one female and one male, thus it is balanced. The female source is given a platform to speak at length about her expulsion from the party. The male source, in line with the headline of the article “intraparty wrangles…À explains how his organisation has planned training workshops for political parties to resolve conflicts and promote internal democracy.

Language
The language used in the article addresses both women and men. Bonnie Tembo, director of the Anti Voter Apathy Project, addresses the political party and does not take sides.  

Visual images
There are no images used in the story.

Story angle and perspective
The story is told by two central sources and both provide valuable arguments which enrich the perspective of the story. The angle is encouraging to female politicians to challenge intraparty politics that disadvantage them.

The story is centred on conflict within political parties and this is demonstrated by the case of Brillian Sefuke, who was expelled from her party. Notably, the journalist gets the view of the woman who has been expelled and she is directly quoted, thus giving her agency. She also speaks at length and challenges her party and the National Executive Committee to treat her fairly. She is consciously aware that she is being victimised by her male counterparts in the political party. The article thus clearly demonstrates what transformative leadership is about. The journalist thus presents fair arguments which are not moralising and they do not place blame on any individual.

Placement or positioning
The story is on page five under the home news section of the newspaper. It is on the left hand side of the page and it is placed next to a mining story that is given more space and has a photograph. To this end, one can conclude that the story “Intraparty wrangles in MMD worry AVAPÀ not considered a prominent story.

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