Zimbabwe: Repression & Dreams Deferred, Again

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"Robert Mugabe was really bad because he didn't listen to anyone unless under personal duress, and because of that terrible trait in him, it led to his spectacular and embarrassing undoing with the culmination of a military coup that was supported by the citizens and the rest of the world sealing his ungraceful demise. Everybody was just tired of the old man, and regardless of the unorthodox means used to remove him, it was a popular and celebrated end of a disastrous rule. His inconvenient and unintended successor and apprentice, Emmerson Mnangagwa, has only been in power for fourteen months, but he has perfected his former boss's art of not listening and being oblivious to what the rest of the world thinks of his rule, good or bad." - Hopewell Chin´ono

The sense of disillusionment with any hopes for Mugabe´s successor regime is virtually universal. On Twitter commentator Alex Magaisa noted on January 19: ¨The regime has caused untold damage to itself. If anyone gave it credit, it's now eroded. Far from being a New Dispensation it is performing far worse than the old regime in its vileness & absurdity. It's one thing to be incompetent. It's far worse when coupled with dishonesty.¨

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