Zimbabwe: No Sir, Nothing Has Changed

16 March 2018
opinion

While Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa is trying to convince the world that he is making progress since replacing his mentor, former President Robert Mugabe, a number of Zimbabweans in the diaspora do not agree with his assessment of the current situation in the country.

I have no iota of doubt that most of my readers have, by now, gone through Emmerson Mnangagwa's Op-Ed (read lies) published by The New York Times on 11 March 2018. This treatise is a direct response to the lies by Mnangagwa who is masquerading as the president of the Republic of Zimbabwe following his illegal and unconstitutional rise to power. For the avoidance of doubt, Zimbabwe never held elections in November 2017 and events that led to dictator Robert Mugabe's resignation had nothing to do with "freedom, progress and a new way of doing things." The military did not support the so-called popular, peaceful revolution. It is in the public domain that the military junta initiated Mugabe's ouster to secure its narrow interests and indeed, its ill-gotten wealth at the expense of the people of Zimbabwe.

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