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...wait for the results of an election that took place over 10 days ago, it is clear that Mugabe??s only legacy will be a perverse system of oppression in which only his close aides benefited from his despotic regime. After the political, social, and economic devastation of the last decade, it will now be up to neighbouring African states, as well as Western powers, to create incentives for the next Zimbabwean “savior” not to end like this one. In Mugabe??s empire, Zimbabwe lives in arrested development: There is absolute...
Somewhere along Mugabe??s 28 years of unchecked rule, however, Zimbabwe lost its way. Within a year of coming to power, Mugabe signed a deal with North Korea to have a military unit trained by war-hardened Asian communists. The Korean-trained brigade was responsible for a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign against a racial minority, the Ndebele, who had sought autonomy from Mugabe??s increasingly authoritarian rule. The campaign was baptized “Gukurahundi,” which in the language of Mugabe??s racial majority, the Shona, means “cleansing...
...amidst opposition cries of rigged elections, Mugabe launched a dictatorial land reform that obliterated productivity. But rather than benefiting disenfranchised black peasants, the program left Mugabe??s inner circle of political allies with much of the land. With the main source of hard currency in shambles the spectacular crash of a once-thriving economy, inflation took off. The government printed trillions of dollars, and inflationary expectations became embedded in the economic cycle...
...Hussein’s government during the time the Iraqi dictator was in power, the country’s decision to veto a United Nations resolution condemning human-rights violations in Myanmar, and its policy of “silent diplomacy” in regard to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe??s “assault on civil liberties” in his country. “[South Africa’s] approach to foreign relations is rapidly undermining our international credibility and has all but obliterated the moral high ground we struggled so hard to achieve through...
Zimbabwean people don’t buy this. Ask most passerbys what they think about President Robert Mugabe??s ruling ZANU-PF party and they’ll whisper urgently, “Be quiet!” They are all afraid of “getting into politics” and being marked as oppositional. Young people who criticize the government are called “sell-outs” and “white-sympathizers.” Roaming thugs beat them or send them on to the cops who, on a bad day, can lock...