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What
happens after Mugabe?
Can Zimbabwe rise from the Ashes?
Author: Geoff
Hill
192pp; size 210 X 134mm;
Trade paperback; ISBN 1770071024
Published Zebra Press, Cape Town;
Non fiction.
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After 25 years in
power, Robert Mugabe is under increasing pressure to step down and allow
democratic reform in Zimbabwe. Amnesty international rates the country amongst
the worst in the world for torture and human rights abuses, the commonwealth
has suspended Zimbabwe’s membership
and even in Africa there is growing outrage at what some see as a rogue state.
In the past five years millions of words have been written about the tragedy
that is Zimbabwe — including more than a dozen books — but few have
focused on what might happen when Mugabe goes and freedom comes.
As things stand, schools and hospitals have collapsed, a third of the
population lives in exile and 3,000 people die of AIDS each week. Once Africa’s
second biggest exporter of food, 70% of the country lives under conditions of
famine in the wake of violent land ‘reforms’. What will it take to rebuild
Zimbabwe? This gripping and incisive book discusses many relevant issues and
asks serious questions including:
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Will four million
exiles return home to a country with 80% unemployment?
• Should there we trials of war criminals?
• Can the economy be revived?
• Where will the billions of dollars worth of aid come from to put
things right?
What
happens after Mugabe? Is meticulously researched, with material drawn from
hundreds of interviews with Zimbabweans among exile communities in the UK, USA
and RSA.
Similar titles on this web site dealing
with the Zimbabwe situation:
Cry Zimbabwe: Independence
Twenty Years On by Peter Stiff
The Battle for
Zimbabwe: The final Countdown by Geoff
Hill
Mugabe: Power, plunder and
Tyranny in Zimbabwe by Martin Meredith
Beyond Tears: Zimbabwe’s
Tragedy by Catherine Buckle
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What
a pity this book can’t be made part of the revised matric system, with
special reference to the dunce class in Foreign Affairs and the
Union
Buildings
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The Star —
Johannesburg
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