Zimbabwe's Moment –– After 35 Years Of Suffocating Tyranny

The new government is likely to face instability, and may relapse into a dictatorship in its early years.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is under pressure from a military-backed Zanu-PF faction to resign.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who is under pressure from a military-backed Zanu-PF faction to resign.
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the army does not necessarily stand for the people of Zimbabwe or true democracy.

Instead, they are only poking their nose in the factional politics of Zanu-PF in order to protect and possibly install in government their preferred Zanu-PF politicians, who are as just as bad as Mugabe's faction.

It is doubtful whether Mnangagwa is a true democrat. He has been Mugabe's tool in his murderous rule from the 1980s, when Gukurahundi was perpetrated on Ndebele Zimbabweans.

This political disruption holds one true promise which a stable and firm tyranny does not: a chance to set Zimbabwe on a true democratic path in order to rebuild its economy.

Opinions expressed in Voices are not necessarily those of HuffPost SA.

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