Zimbabwe: Mugabe’s fall ends ‘big man’ career, but is it the end of an era?
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Issue 358
- 23 Nov 2017
| 3 minute read
The protracted resignation of Robert Mugabe was met with relief and elation in Zimbabwe, and much further afield by those who have seen one of Africa’s most promising countries driven into misery by the former guerrilla fighter’s capricious 37-year rule. Many Zimbabweans of all political tendencies celebrated the prospect that “it is our time now”, rather than facing the prospect that the 93-year-old president may force his wife Grace Mugabe on the country.
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