When the police and the army start slugging it out in the streets, it’s pretty good evidence that the government nominally in charge of both is in deep trouble.
You’d think that an annual inflation rate of 231,000,000 percent would topple any governing party. But Zimbabwean president and loathesomely despicable individual Robert Mugabe has not hesitated to send out his thugs to beat, maim, slaughter and otherwise dissuade his opponents.
He almost gave up when he lost the last election, but then his enforcers stepped in and insisted he stay in power, assuming, quite intelligently, that he would probably get to escape to exile in North Korea or Turkmenistan while they were all being demobilized into pigeon pie.
But now that a cholera epidemic has spread throughout the country on top of the years of starvation and misery, even the cops can’t keep body and soul together. Their recent mini-riot may have emboldened others in the long-suffering state, such as Tuesday’s audacious demonstration of doctors and nurses who watch their patients die of a completely treatable disease.
At least we no longer have the unctuous Thabo Mbeki uttering his creepy platitudes and defending Mugabe as his comrade in the ‘African liberation struggle.’
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