# Mugabe, you sleaze, the clock is ticking, I hope you know that

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**Created:** [July 29, 2002, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mugabe-you-sleaze-the-clock-is-ticking-i-hope-you-know-that/121329 "2002-07-29T05:06:11Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 29, 2002, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mugabe-you-sleaze-the-clock-is-ticking-i-hope-you-know-that/121329/21 "2002-07-29T21:13:18Z")

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> So good luck with the “exile” thing. Where were you thinking of going, anyway? Saudi Arabia sounds good…

Maybe he can live next door to Idi Amin who’s been quite happily residing there in a large mansion with big cars and bodyguards ever since he left Uganda.

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> Any new government formed under the premise of violent upheaval will never leave power, not without an even bigger fight. Examples can be found throughout Africa and the third world (including Zimbabwe itself).

I have higher hopes for the MDC than many other African opposition groups. Despite their core support being generally uneducated, they are thoroughly and undoubtedly _committed_ to democratic reform. They ain’t gonna suddenly start ruling by dictatorship.

Also their supporters are very unified. At the moment they are terrified of Mugabe’s thugs but once Mugabe goes, I think we may be surprised at just how unified most of the country is.

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> I truly cannot see any way for this to end peacefully, Zimbabwe will end up with a civil war with neighboring states supporting their favourite faction to suit their own agenda.

True. What is required is some of the neighbouring countries (in particular South Africa) to be more firm in their opposition to Mugabe. Unfortunately they don’t seem too willing to do this (partly because they fear for their own positions).

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