How has Robert Mugabe been able to rule Zimbabwe for so long?
By Christopher Hitchens
"Now that the South African political leadership has—after years of shameful silence and even complicity—declined to continue its open-ended indulgence of Robert Mugabe, it becomes possible to envisage a time when Zimbabwe will be free of the hideous regime of one man and one-party rule."
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