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Mugabe Brooks No Opposition
Caute, David | August 31, 1985 issue

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Zimbabwe is the rising star of black Africa, celebrated not only for its bitter struggle against the white settlers but also for the highly developed economic infrastructure it inherited from them. Zimbabwe is where the hopes invested in postcolonial black Africa have been reborn. Zimbabwe labors, as Mugabe constantly reiterates, under an inherited burden: the imperialist legacy of the Lancaster House Constitution of December 1979, which brought the civil war to a close. The twenty House of Assembly seats reserved for white voters are, to be sure, an anachronism and a legitimate irritant, but what most incenses Mugabe are the short-term guarantees for pluralistic parliamentary democracy.

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INFRASTRUCTURE (Economics); CIVIL war; DEMOCRACY; POLITICAL doctrines; AFRICA, Sub-Saharan; ZIMBABWE
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