A Predictable Tragedy: Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of ZimbabweUniversity of Pennsylvania Press, 06.06.2011 - 336 Seiten When the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he would bring them. Under his leadership for the next 30 years, Zimbabwe slid from self-sufficiency into poverty and astronomical inflation. The government once praised for its magnanimity and ethnic tolerance was denounced by leaders like South African Nobel Prize-winner Desmond Tutu. Millions of refugees fled the country. How did the heroic Mugabe become a hated autocrat, and why were so many outside of Zimbabwe blind to his bloody misdeeds for so long? |
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2 Violence as the Cornerstone of Mugabes Strategy of Political Survival | 46 |
3 Militant Civil Society and the Emergence of a Credible Opposition | 80 |
From Skirmishes to FullFledged War | 118 |
From Resistance to Subjugation | 141 |
6 The Land Reform Charade and the Tragedy of Famine | 166 |
7 The State Bourgeoisie and the Plunder of the Economy | 191 |
8 The International Community and the Crisis in Zimbabwe | 221 |
Chaos Averted or Merely Postponed? | 254 |
List of Acronyms | 271 |
Notes | 277 |
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Acknowledgments | 335 |
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