The vacuum created by yesterday’s exit of Robert Mugabe as Zimbabwe’s president will be filled today. Group Political Editor Emmanuel Oladesu writes on the implications of the development and the task before his successor.
YESTERDAY was a turning point in the history of Zimbabwe. Its long-standing dictator, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, was forced to resign. The nonagenarian despot surrendered with great reluctance. If he had the chance, he would have rejected the last and only option and insisted on a thoughtless and illegitimate tenure elongation. But, the old man could not dare its costly implications. He started well as a leader; a nationalist with an enviable record of struggle against colonisalism. But, being power drunk, he ended on a sore note as a spent force.
Zimbabwe: What next after Mugabe?
