000461449 000__ 03638cam\a2200409\a\4500 000461449 001__ 461449 000461449 005__ 20210513161751.0 000461449 006__ m\\\\\\\\d\\\\\\\\ 000461449 007__ cr\cn||||||||| 000461449 008__ 100226s2011\\\\pau\\\\\sb\\\\001\0deng\d 000461449 010__ $$z 2010004561 000461449 020__ $$z9780812242676 (alk. paper) 000461449 020__ $$z081224267X (alk. paper) 000461449 020__ $$z9780812200041 (e-book) 000461449 035__ $$a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641567 000461449 040__ $$aCaPaEBR$$cCaPaEBR 000461449 043__ $$af-rh--- 000461449 05014 $$aDT2996$$b.C66 2011eb 000461449 08204 $$a968.9105/1092$$222 000461449 1001_ $$aCompagnon, Daniel. 000461449 24512 $$aA predictable tragedy$$h[electronic resource] :$$bRobert Mugabe and the collapse of Zimbabwe /$$cDaniel Compagnon. 000461449 24630 $$aRobert Mugabe and the collapse of Zimbabwe 000461449 260__ $$aPhiladelphia :$$bUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$$cc2011. 000461449 300__ $$a333 p. 000461449 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 000461449 5050_ $$aAuthoritarian control of the political arena -- Violence as the cornerstone of Mugabe's strategy of political survival -- Militant civil society and the emergence of a credible opposition -- The media battlefield : from skirmishes to full-fledged war -- The judiciary : from resistance to subjugation -- The land "reform" charade and the tragedy of famine -- The state bourgeoisie and the plunder of the economy -- The international community and the crisis in Zimbabwe -- Conclusion : crisis averted or merely postponed?. 000461449 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 000461449 520__ $$aWhen the southern African country of Rhodesia was reborn as Zimbabwe in 1980, democracy advocates celebrated the defeat of a white supremacist regime and the end of colonial rule. Zimbabwean crowds cheered their new prime minister, freedom fighter Robert Mugabe, with little idea of the misery he would bring them. Under his leadership for the next 30 years, Zimbabwe slid from self-sufficiency into poverty and astronomical inflation. The government once praised for its magnanimity and ethnic tolerance was denounced by leaders like South African Nobel Prize-winner Desmond Tutu. Millions of refugees fled the country. How did the heroic Mugabe become a hated autocrat, and why were so many outside of Zimbabwe blind to his bloody misdeeds for so long? In "A Predictable Tragedy: Robert Mugabe and the Collapse of Zimbabwe" Daniel Compagnon reveals that while the conditions and perceptions of Zimbabwe had changed, its leader had not. From the beginning of his political career, Mugabe was a cold tactician with no regard for human rights. Through eyewitness accounts and unflinching analysis, Compagnon describes how Mugabe and the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) built a one-party state under an ideological cloak of anti-imperialism. To maintain absolute authority, Mugabe undermined one-time ally Joshua Nkomo, terrorized dissenters, stoked the fires of tribalism, covered up the massacre of thousands in Matabeleland, and siphoned off public money to his minions-all well before the late 1990s, when his attempts at radical land redistribution finally drew negative international attention. -- Book jacket. 000461449 60010 $$aMugabe, Robert Gabriel,$$d1924-2019. 000461449 651_0 $$aZimbabwe$$xPolitics and government$$y1980- 000461449 651_0 $$aZimbabwe$$xHistory$$y1980- 000461449 651_0 $$aZimbabwe$$xSocial conditions$$y1980- 000461449 651_0 $$aZimbabwe$$xEconomic conditions$$y1980- 000461449 655_7 $$aElectronic books.$$2lcsh 000461449 852__ $$bebk 000461449 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete$$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=http://site.ebrary.com/lib/usiricelib/Doc?id=10641567$$zOnline Access 000461449 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:461449$$pGLOBAL_SET 000461449 980__ $$aEBOOK 000461449 980__ $$aBIB 000461449 982__ $$aEbook 000461449 983__ $$aOnline