Emmerson Mnangagwa, a yes man and another political sycophant to Mugabe, and a graduated apprentice executioner. How could this work for any change to the catastrophe it all is?

And as for the return of the white farmers, (not mentioned), wouldn't the desire to reestablish their wasted lives, (thanks to Mugabe), be saying more about the realities of the places they fled to, than the shattered dreams they left behind in Zimbabwe?

Crude native politics reigns supreme in Africa. Proving the lie that it is, that equality works. The same big, big mistake taken by the democracies in the West, now paying the same price for the madness it is, as we also race to the bottom.

A great article and well written.

Dan

I'll give you gentle folk a walk through how politics works in (South)Africa.

You park your car on a public street in any town, and there'll be a milling of "the boys", jockeying for their minder money. You'd better pay if you wants your car there when you return.
But it's not finished yet; now we get political "African style". So on our return, car still there, all good...for me. But sadly not the competition of the minders.

Next visit, the minder population has reduced. Redacted by murder! Nothing changes in Africa, from the bottom to the top!

Dan

Legacy?

That he was an evil little man with a veritable river of innocent blood on his hands, and with his Leadership a terrified nation that became a Banana republic and a pariah to most civilised people, be they black, white or brindle!

Epitaph?

Here lies a notorious, Black baby butchering Bastard, lying here without a single redeeming feature to claim as his own but rather evil incarnate as his only available earned legacy!

It's said one should never speak ill of the dead and something I mostly agree with, except, in this case, there's not a single redeeming feature one can point to, to show that the world became a better place as a consequence of the man's absolutism, endeavour, voluntary efforts and influence!

He divided a nation with rivers of blood just so he could rule and Strutt like the ego-driven, power-hungry Nascist he surely was. And had a heart that was blacker than the hide that contained it!

I've seen hell and I'm almost certain Mugabe now rots in it? And in good company! And so terrifying as an eternal prospect, that one wouldn't wish it on one's worst enemy!

Imagine if Mugabe could have emulated President, Nelson Mandella, What he could have done for former (food bowl of Africa) Rhodesia and all its people!
Alan B.

The future was set in concrete the moment he kicked out the white
farmers.
The locals who had worked on those farms for generation had learnt
nothing about farming. They were just not capable of making a go of it.
So the breadbasket of Africa just died out and with it any hope.
Now Sth Africa is making the same mistake by killing off the farmers.
It will be interesting to see if a country with the resources they have
can actually feed themselves.

Al...

The lesson for us in Australia with African politics is, how far the population can be driven down and anger of the masses suppressed, but those with their greedy hands on the pie, still remain in power.

And quite frankly, I'm appalled that the criminal Gupta Family are acceptable in this country, after their expulsion from South Africa.

Australia has a long way to fall to be on the same standard as SA, however, it surely is on the same path. Corruption in high places will take it there. And corruption in low places, (30% of the Australian economy, operates in the black market) will nail it in.

But there is a stark difference between the desperate at the bottom, and the greedy at the top, however wide the path that leads.

And the joint mentality which similarly leads to the ruin of all that was and is good about Australia, needs addressing urgently. Gaps are widening, and the camps of the spartans are becoming restless.

Dan

Dan

Rhodesia was super........