This is a really good first perdson account of the rise of Mugabe.


When Judith Todd was 10, her father Garfield Todd became prime minister of Southern Rhodesia. “We then had a few short years in which we weren’t ostracised,” she says. “When I first went to school and I was asked what my father did, I would say, ‘He’s a New Zealander’, so as not to mention his being a missionary, because missionaries were generally despised by whites for being ‘kaffir-lovers’.”

As prime minister Todd planned to extend the franchise to blacks, which soon made him hugely unpopular with white voters so Judith told classmates her father was a missionary, not letting on that he was prime minister.


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Since I am an old fart, I watched the tranistion from Rhodesia to Zimbabwe.

Old policies seem to die hard in those countries. They seem to change on the surface but it always seems to be the same mentality. Blacks are still considered inferior.

Read somewhere, I cannot find it now, but Mugabe's policies has inflation running at about 2000%. Talk about bad policies.

Wow. That sounds like mega-inflation.

Inflation is not the only prob he faces. His economic policies, allo of them are a disaster. He keeps trying different things to slow the bad shit down, nothing works. Mugabe's government will implode here soon.