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So the old dictator and all around bad guy Robert Mugabe has finally been turfed out on his backside.

Him and his cronies managed to take a sensational country and run it into the ground. Unemployment, HIV and inflation are amongst the worst in the world.

Personally, I would love to see him up in front of the International Courts for Crimes against humanity. Hopefully he will rot in a cell for the rest of his worthless life.

My biggest fear is that his successor will be cut from similar cloth.

Here's hoping that this once awesome country recovers to resemble what it once was.
 
Captainron said:
So the old dictator and all around bad guy Robert Mugabe has finally been turfed out on his backside.

Him and his cronies managed to take a sensational country and run it into the ground. Unemployment, HIV and inflation are amongst the worst in the world.

Personally, I would love to see him up in front of the International Courts for Crimes against humanity. Hopefully he will rot in a cell for the rest of his worthless life.

My biggest fear is that his successor will be cut from similar cloth.

Here's hoping that this once awesome country recovers to resemble what it once was.
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I'm sure you've much greater knowledge than most of us on the subject Cameron and the country us well rid of this evil despot. I just hope your fears are unfounded
 
Not going to hold my breath for a prompt return to democracy and prosperity. But at least it could be a start.

Would be nice if the country could get its hands on some of the vast fortune he, and his especially grasping wife, have purloined over the years - and use it to help bail out some of the poorest of his countrymen.

Is a few years since I last visited - and one of the saddest things I heard someone say - and it was one of our black tour guides who said it - was that "it was better under Smith - at least you knew where you stood, and the economy was stable..." For a black guy to say that, it shows how far down the pan the locals thought the country had gone under Mugabe...
 
It used to be known as the bread basket of Africa, it exported so much food. Ha! Mugabe fixed that.
Zimbabwe deserves so much better, but sadly, i am with Cam on this one. His successor will be more of the same.
 
I played cricket with a guy who lost everything under his regime. He had to leave everything including his farm (which was v.prosperous) for fear of his and his families life.

Im surprised what went on didn't receive more airtime in the UK.

Good riddance to him.
 
Junior said:
I played cricket with a guy who lost everything under his regime. He had to leave everything including his farm (which was v.prosperous) for fear of his and his families life.

Im surprised what went on didn't receive more airtime in the UK.

Good riddance to him.
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I remember when it was happening. It got a lot of time on the tv news and I would guess the broadsheets would have covered it heavily. I can remember hearing many accounts from different farmers of having their farms taken from them. Not a great deal the UK could do though.

I hope the country can make some steps towards recovery now that he has gone.
 
I know some people who lost alot when it all went down, genuinely lucky to have got out with what they did. I am however holding on to my celebrations on the matter until we see what follows from him. I don't expect the people who had power under him to want to give it up for the good of the people.
 
If Zim wants to get back on its feet, it must repatriate the exiled farmers who used to work the lands and give them their farms back so that they can feed their own people.

It will never happen though will it.
 
Captainron said:
So the old dictator and all around bad guy Robert Mugabe has finally been turfed out on his backside.

Him and his cronies managed to take a sensational country and run it into the ground. Unemployment, HIV and inflation are amongst the worst in the world.

Personally, I would love to see him up in front of the International Courts for Crimes against humanity. Hopefully he will rot in a cell for the rest of his worthless life.

My biggest fear is that his successor will be cut from similar cloth.

Here's hoping that this once awesome country recovers to resemble what it once was.
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My Grandparents, My dad and my 2 aunties all lived in Rhodesia until my dad finished high school at Churchill School Salisbury.

I asked him what he thought about this situation last night and he has said similar to what has been written on here. Its 37 years too late and the country is too far gone to get back to any form of democracy and their are plenty other greedy so and so's in the party to take over and keep the oppressive regime in place.
 
I find it ridiculous to see the ZANU PF party celebrating when they kept him in power all these years and ruined what appears to have been a wonderful country.
I just hope it's not a case of "meet the new boss, same as the old boss" but I am afraid it will be.
 
Whatever happens in the country will be greatly influenced by China. They have bankrolled the country for years and it will not be for nothing.
 
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