The longtime tyrant of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has been
forced to resign as president after being deposed as party leader by his own
ruling socialist party, following the party-directed coup d’etat late last week
that I had posted about.
The
93-year-old dictator, who had been placed under house arrest, had attempted to
ensure his much younger wife would succeed him as president and party
leader. She was forced out as head of
the party’s ladies auxiliary. The Vice
President will accede to Zimbabwe ’s
presidency amidst jubilation in the streets, as Mugabe can no longer oppress the
people of Zimbabwe .
The ruling
Marxist-oriented party must, as the international community should insist,
permit freedom of speech, press and assembly and conduct free and fair
elections and accept the results if they are in favor of the democratic
opposition. It must not continue the
same tyranny with which it was complicit under Mugabe, as the long-suffering
Zimbabweans deserve liberty and representative government. The last day of the dictator ought to be the
last day of dictatorship.
The
celebrations in Harare and elsewhere in Zimbabwe also ought to be heard clearly in South Africa , where the corrupt
democratically-elected president has been protected by the most loyal core of
his Marxist-oriented ruling party that has dominated electoral politics in Zimbabwe ’s
southern neighbor since blacks were granted the privilege to vote.
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