POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: CAUSES OF ZIMBABWE'S ECONOMIC PROBLEMS : Mugabe,'s own history and actions attest to a schizophrenic personality, posturing as a Marxist revolutionary, sometimes by only wear...

Mugabe,'s own history and actions attest to a schizophrenic personality, posturing as a Marxist revolutionary, sometimes by only wearing Communist attire during elections and emitting searing populist rhetoric, some just know him as an educated man recognized for his Western suits, love for English cricket, tea and admiration for British royalty. Mugabe was for long content and not inclined to upset the applecart when it came to Western interests. Most importantly, after Independence in 1980, apart from command economic and social services delivery approach, Mugabe did not seek to reform the settler colonial state structure in line with his party’s socialist and one-party state manifesto. He happily inherited colonial institutions, laws and even top individual officials and bureaucrats to run the state while he learned the ropes.   Zimbabwe cannot create, and thereafter continue, needed formal sector employment. Thus not only does Zimbabwe very urgently need to repeal the neg

POLITICAL SITUATION IN ZIMBABWE: NOTHING TO FEAR IN MUGABE : Mugabe will be removed by politicians who will surmount the fear of death and breathe courage to the population. Leaders, who will, with...

Mugabe will be removed by politicians who will surmount the fear of death and breathe courage to the population. Leaders, who will, with their trusted people power and large numbers, demolish Mugabe’s thin fortresses of violence and extract freedom and justice from the sinking regime. In his lifetime, Mugabe must see the colour of defeat, taste the bitter cup of justice and smell the freedom of his victims. The many Zanu PF hardliners who continue to show fanatical and near cultic support for Mugabe are not Zimbabweans who love and honour “a dear leader.” It is a collection of fearful beneficiaries of Mugabe’s violence, corruption, patronage and pillage who stand to lose their freedom, wealth and even lives in the case of his departure. These are Mugabe’s zealots who have raped, murdered, robbed and stolen in the name of Mugabe and are most likely to be thrown into extremism upon Mugabe’s death and run down Zimbabwe in a bloody civil war if not managed strategically by the politic