Timing for Meaningful Alliance formation
Greenwell Matchaya, PhD In the previous article titled Principles of Engagement for a Successful Alliance Formation available both on nyasatimes and mfumusaka’s blog ( http://mfumusaka.blogspot.com/2018/11/principles-of-engagement-for-successful.html ) we tackled the issue of requirements for healthy discussions leading to alliances and covered issues of objectivity, importance of facts, good faith, lawfulness, consensus, certainty, roles and responsibilities, formalities inter alia . This article seeks to take it from the previous discussion and tackle few issues on why an alliance may be important and under what circumstances may it be meaningful(less). This is important to ensure alliances are not merely ceremonial, but serve a noble purpose. As with the previous one, this article is not meant to discourage or encourage any political party anywhere to go into, or withdraw from any potential political formation, alliance, party or grouping, rather, it seeks to contr