Having just been to Victoria Falls and Hwange in December and seen the dire straits those municipalities are in, how poor people are and how high the cost of living is, I wonder how Zimbabwe will recover. The answer is that it can’t, not while the current band of thieving dictators are in power. It is deeply distressing to see how a nation so beautiful and promising can been so completely and utterly captured and destroyed. The thieves and criminals in power have absolutely no intention of altering their ways or relinquishing power. President Emmerson “Uncle Ed” Mnangagwa openly admits to being “surrounded by criminals” — both black and white — but make no mistake, he is one of them. A lifestyle audit of both local and overseas assets would confirm this in a heartbeat. By the same token, anyone who believes there will be a gradual transition to democracy in Zimbabwe is clearly deluded. Mnangagwa was, after all, Zimbabwe’s first minister of security from 1980 to 1988 and played a sig...
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