LEADER 04448nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910809311003321 005 20240418023821.0 010 $a1-283-88997-8 010 $a0-8122-0004-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200041 035 $a(CKB)3240000000064671 035 $a(OCoLC)794700571 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10641567 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000606613 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11413815 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000606613 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10582044 035 $a(PQKB)11141870 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8258 035 $a(DE-B1597)449017 035 $a(OCoLC)979833809 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200041 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441732 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10641567 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420247 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441732 035 $a(EXLCZ)993240000000064671 100 $a20100226d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA predictable tragedy$b[electronic resource] $eRobert Mugabe and the collapse of Zimbabwe /$fDaniel Compagnon 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2011 215 $a1 online resource (342 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2289-X 311 $a0-8122-4267-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $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?. 330 $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. 606 $aHISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa$2bisacsh 607 $aZimbabwe$xPolitics and government$y1980- 607 $aZimbabwe$xHistory$y1980- 607 $aZimbabwe$xSocial conditions$y1980- 607 $aZimbabwe$xEconomic conditions$y1980- 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAsian Studies. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aHuman Rights. 610 $aLaw. 610 $aMiddle Eastern Studies. 610 $aPolitical Science. 615 7$aHISTORY / Africa / South / Republic of South Africa. 676 $a968.9105/1092 700 $aCompagnon$b Daniel$01193718 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809311003321 996 $aA predictable tragedy$93919832 997 $aUNINA