What word best describes the sight of some Zimbabweans booing SA’s president at Robert Mugabe’s sparsely attended funeral, and President Cyril  Ramaphosa feeling the need to apologise? Is it irony? Schadenfreude?

Mugabe, along with all the Zanu-PF bigwigs present for that spectacle on Saturday, wrecked his country. An entire generation of Zimbabweans has fled the country he destroyed for a better life elsewhere (me included)...

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