I wonder how these dictators sleep at night?

Sooner - or later - the knock will come at the door (usually accompanied by a gun !)

Yet again, shows how the breadbasket of Africa was reduced to a paupers state once the Trot Loonies got in power !

Money worthless as rampant inflation destroys the economy ... and people now starving.

We all know how these people remain in power - force ! - but why do people support them initially?

Do they put all intelligence to one side and let hope exceed common sense?

Britain Beware - There are Loonies here, waiting in the wings.

"Trot Loonies"

more one dimensional claptrap.

next you'll be claiming the free marketeers currently in power are "conservatives"

hedda wrote:
"Trot Loonies"

All your friends, hedda !

(but now that you can marry a man in Australia you probably won't notice)

I'm not sure what to feel about Mugabe (once pronounced by anchorman Jim Jensen on New York TV as Mugger-be which is how I've thought of him ever since) - I know from experience that some African countries need a strong ruler; that many dictators started well (Ben Ali; Mubarak) - that media can only present extreme caricatures; it is an interesting time.