The praise heaped on the late Robert Mugabe by former president Thabo Mbeki is unfortunate, undeserving, misplaced and cannot go unchallenged. Our country will bear the brunt of Mugabe’s ruinous economic policies in Zimbabwe for generations to come.

A large part of the population of Zimbabwe had no choice but to migrate south to escape hunger, starvation, lack of political and civil freedoms, and police brutality under the despot Mugabe...

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