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Print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag 308: 11.0" x 15.5" ‘Mugabe’s fall symbolic of economic collapse’ | The Zimbabwe Daily
ZIMBABWEANS appear agreed that more than anything else President Robert Mugabeâs dramatic fall at the Harare International Airport last week shows it is high time Africaâs oldest leader calls it quits and hands over power to the next generation of leaders.
While there has been debate over what caused the nonagenarianâs fall, with government spin-doctors insisting he tripped over a âpoorly laid out carpetâ while the majority of Zimbabweans believe their leader has been slowed down by age and attendant health complications, the fall provoked intense debate about Mugabeâs continued stay in power.
This has resulted in party officials, many of whom double up as senior government officials, concentrating on succession politics instead of the nationâs daunting economic challenges. Consequently, the economy continues in free-fall, while a lack of supervision has resulted in continued corruption and bad corporate governance.
In as much as it is widely deemed âunAfricanâ to celebrate the misfortune of another human being, more so an elderly person like Mugabe, the interest the fall generated was precisely because of the widespread feeling that Mugabe has overstayed his welcome in power and appears out of his depth in solving pressing economic issues.
Once a darling in Zimbabwe and abroad, especially soon after Independence, Mugabe is tarnishing his legacy by clinging onto power for powerâs sake, with record hyperinflation that only ended with âdollarisationâ in 2009 and the continued economic meltdown a serious indictment of his rule.
As an African liberation war icon, Mugabe was invited to Jamaica in 1996 where he addressed students and meetings in Kingston, Negril and Montego Bay, widely viewed as a move to help former Jamaican prime minister James Patterson win the 1997 elections. During that visit, he was bestowed the honorary Order of Jamaica (OJ), the countryâs fourth highest honour.
But as the years passed his controversial policies especially after the turn of the millenium, from a violent land-grab to an indigenisation policy fraught with inconsistency and opacity, have reduced the country â once reputedly the breadbasket of Africa â to a basket case. He has faced allegations of gross human rights violations and systematic election-rigging, and is currently under Western travel restrictions.
Mugabe is officially Africaâs oldest leader and the continentâs third-longest serving head of state, but seems to be in denial about his advanced age â as indeed his many hangers-on thriving on his patronage network â preferring to describe himself as a âyoung old manâ who is âas fit as a fiddleâ, which he says he owes to eating healthy and exercise.
For a long time, Mugabeâs health has been shrouded in secrecy with speculation on his health fuelled by his constant trips to the Far East, mainly Singapore.
Political analyst and Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) director Pedzisai Ruhanya said Mugabeâs fall is symbolic of the continued deterioration of the countryâs economy during his reign as leader of Zimbabwe.
âThis speaks to the issue of misgovernance of a country. Mugabe has completely failed to run the country and over the years Zimbabweans have watched as the countryâs economy nosedives with Mugabe providing no solutions,â Ruhanya said. âThe country cannot attract foreign direct investments because of a leadership crisis as Mugabe and his administration are inconsistent with regards to policy issues.â
\nAnother analyst Maxwell Saungweme said Mugabe should retire or risk tarnishing his legacy further.
âBy continuing to hold onto power, Mugabe is doing himself a disservice because his legacy will quickly be forgotten,â Saungweme said.
âPeople will only remember the bad side of his rule. People will remember him for human rights abuses, violent land seizures, bad governance and electoral fraud and forget anything positive he did for this country.â
Mugabeâs tension-filled December party congress failed to resolve the succession issue and the countryâs economic challenges, but instead further entrenched his faltering control of the party by giving him more powers.
âMugabeâs fall is as symbolic as it shows that after all he is human and age, no matter what he does, will always catch up with him,â Phiri said. – ZimInd