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My Country of Flickering Lights—Dispatches from the New South Africa
Zimbabwe Hits Bottom
Robert Mugabe hates black people more than the most technical architects of apartheid ever could and he's never been shy about demonstrating it. From 1982-1985, he waged a full scale slaughter against the minority Ndebele people that saw mass graves holding some 20,000 dead. To this murder campaign he gave a colorful, upbeat name.... Even as he cannot stop sniping at the West, Mugabe revels in Eurocentric accoutrements—wearing suits from Saville Row, unleashing his wife at Harrods, and decorating his house with images of the English countryside in summer. Indeed, many a critic has suggested that Mugabe’s resentment stems from envy—that for some reason, Mugabe wishes he were white. [Read More]
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