Yes, it is a given, and rightly so, that land re-distribution was a priority for Mr. Mugabe. However, it is also a truism that shrill confrontational politics is a losing game with those who are more powerful than you are.
While Mugabe led an armed rebellion against whites and won after a long potracted war of attrition in which many blacks died, the nuances of land politics called for different tactics. While it may have been the easy way to achieve his end by confiscating white farms, in the end he lost with devastating consequences for the blacks he wanted to help.
Now, Mugabe is hanging on to power because he is afraid of his shadows. His hangers-on are protecting their rare-ends by propping his rule. In the end the cerebral guerrilla hero has turned into another African buffoon.
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