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...killed and hundreds more injured in post-election violence - and refugees continue to stream across the border into South Africa. Despite growing calls from around the region and the world for the immediate release of the election results, Mugabe appears unmoved. Last Friday he celebrated the 28th anniversary of Zimbabwean independence by aiming his wrath against Britain, the former colonial power, whose bidding he accuses the opposition of doing. "Down with thieves who want to steal our country," he thundered, in his first speech since the elections, calling on Zimbabweans to be vigilant "in the face of vicious British machinations...
...Under the white government of the time, there was more than one way for a political aspirant to agitate for change. Mugabe fought for freedom; Tsvangirai chose the mine-workers union. In 1980, Mugabe, then 56, inaugurated a free Zimbabwe. Eight years later, Tsvangirai became secretary-general of the Zimbabwean trade-union movement. Outraged by Mugabe's growing tyranny, Tsvangirai's unions broke with the state...
...Tsvangirai is ebullient and casual, wears cowboy hats and has the burly figure of a man fond of food.Mugabe sports a tiny Hitler mustache and favors tailored suits but sometimes wears shirts and baseball caps bearing images of his own face. The two men appeal to different sections of Zimbabwean society--Mugabe to rural villagers and liberation stalwarts, Tsvangirai to the young and the urban...
...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 official control of the public sphere, coercion of racial and cultural minorities, drowning of opposition voices, a reigning economic elite subjugating poor masses...
...struggles against Western imperialists seeking to regain control of the country. For instance, in 2003 Mugabe declared the Internet to be a tool of Western imperialism perpetuating “the iniquity of hegemony” during a UN conference. What he forgot to mention was his monopoly on Zimbabwean media outlets. At least the Western imperialists build fine cars, something Mugabe, who arrived at the opening parliamentary session last year in a Rolls Royce, can appreciate...