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Mugabe abandoned the best interests of Zimbabwe??€™s people long ago. He is a dictator doing all he can to hold onto power. That land reform is an entirely legitimate issue should not cloud our condemnation of the man or of his corrupt, harmful policies and abuses of democracy...
...can’t say I approve of Mugabe’s despotic rule, even after Barron’s favorable portrayal. But I am convinced that if Western governments think Mugabe is solely to blame for Zimbabwe??€™s plunge into the abyss, it is only because they have not looked in the mirror. Like other nations in Africa, Zimbabwe desperately needs a real and dramatic redistribution of land to undo the legacy of colonization. The problem is that neither Mugabe nor his critics have figured...
...white farmers in Zimbabwe who now demand a peaceful and orderly land reform were content to do nothing through much of the first two decades of Zimbabwe??€™s nationhood. And Mugabe himself was not particularly concerned with land reform until it became politically expedient. But just because land reform was politically motivated does not mean that Western governments can take the high ground in their condemnation of Mugabe. For all the nations that criticize Mugabe, none has advanced a feasible and timely plan for reform. Britain, in particular, failed by not providing Zimbabwe with the money needed...
...lack of teamwork shows in the statistics. Sophomore Lauren Henderson,—who like Harvard’s Shelley Maasdorp hails from Zimbabwe??€”has accounted for nearly all of the team’s scoring this season with five goals in six games. But outside of Henderson’s goals and two penalty strokes by senior Kelly Cochrane against Vermont, UConn has just one goal all season...
...also remembers being nervous about a visit by a then little-known African leader—Zimbabwe??€™s President Robert Mugabe...