Marching to Freedom

The long night of one-party rule in Zimbabwe looks to be ending at last, with parliamentary results apparently handing a narrow majority to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change for the first time since independence in 1980.

I now hope that the results show that Mugabe has lost the Presidency too. That man's government has lead Zimbabwe right to the very edge of destruction, driving millions of refugees away, huge unemployment, rampant HIV/AIDS spread, terrible impossible inflation, etc etc.

His replacement by a new government would be good for the people of the country and good for Africa too. The sooner it happens, the better.

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[Libertyscott]

Yet the ANC continues to support Mugabe, and nobody points a finger at Mbeki and Mandela for this. Mugabe has been a murderous thugs for decades, but it's only taken the outright destruction of the country for the left to catch up to acknowledging it.