It seems incongruous now, but Robert Mugabe was once considered a hero in Africa. He rose to prominence fighting colonial rule in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1980, he won the general election after calling for reconciliation between previously rival parties – including whites – and became Zimbabwe’s first prime minister. Now, he presides over a vicious kleptocracy in which gang-rape and murders are rife, inflation is an astronomical 231 million per cent and clean water is available only to the privileged few. At time of writing, the death toll from the cholera epidemic has surpassed 1,100; prices are doubling daily; unemployment has reached 90% and, at 40.9 years, life expectancy is the world’s lowest. And still, the world dithers.
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Monday, December 22, 2008
ROBERT MUGABE
It seems incongruous now, but Robert Mugabe was once considered a hero in Africa. He rose to prominence fighting colonial rule in Rhodesia during the 1960s and 1970s. In 1980, he won the general election after calling for reconciliation between previously rival parties – including whites – and became Zimbabwe’s first prime minister. Now, he presides over a vicious kleptocracy in which gang-rape and murders are rife, inflation is an astronomical 231 million per cent and clean water is available only to the privileged few. At time of writing, the death toll from the cholera epidemic has surpassed 1,100; prices are doubling daily; unemployment has reached 90% and, at 40.9 years, life expectancy is the world’s lowest. And still, the world dithers.
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