No matter what one might characterize what transpired in Zimbabwe over the past week - a coup, not a coup, or a 'smart coup' - there is one thing for sure... this was not, by any stretch of the imagination, a revolution.
The replacement of one dictator with another can not in any way be regarded as a revolution - moreover, when these two are birds of the same feather, and from the same party.
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