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Article: Zimbabwe: Mugabe scribbles a tragic scenario. (Coder story).(Brief Article)
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- African Business
- Article date:
- December 1, 2001
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Our October 2001 cover story asked if there was light at the end of the tunnel in Zimbabwe following the Abuja accord wherein the government had pledged to end farm occupations among other things. Sadly, since then, the flicker of light seems to have been almost extinguished. Tom Nevin revisits Zimbabwe to assess the situation post Abuja and finds a desperate scenario being scripted on the hoof.
Two events in September conspired to rake the heat off Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as he sat pickling in the strong and acidic backlash of his farm invasion policy, and its concomitant economic crisis. The first was his acceptance on September 6, of the strong ...