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Douglas Johnson

Douglas Johnson

Thursday 7 February 2008

A challenge

Brave man. Expect: arrests, beatings, torture, rigged elections and finally a bloody and brutal death. If he lives that long.

The starvation, hyper-inflation and increasing age of their despot may convince the Zimbabwean people to take action. But equally, the starvation, hyper-inflation and election-rigging skills of their ageing despot are doing a tragically good job of keeping them down.

A more realistic prospect is that enough people in power will wake up to Zimbabwe’s impending doom and support Simba here. Although I worry there that Simba, having come to power on the backs of the party-powerful, will remain on the backs of the party powerful. As a dictator.

We can only hope, I suppose. That is, if he last more than a month anyway.

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