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.

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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.

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

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Wow. That sounds like mega-inflation.

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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.

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