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Jubilee has failed in these critical areas

Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe was as famous for his witticisms as he was for being an independence hero. Asked by American journalist Christiane Amanpour whether it was time to say goodbye to the people of Zimbabwe, he retorted without skipping a beat, “but where are they going?” Mugabe, typical of many presidents, had over time become so enamoured with self as to make it impossible for him to countenance the notion of Zimbabwe without him.

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