Few turn out as Mugabe is returned to a Zimbabwe in crisis
Zimbabwe founding leader Robert Mugabe made his final journey back to the country Wednesday, his body flown into the capital amid the contradictions of his long, controversial rule.
The former guerrilla leader, who died Friday at 95 in a hospital in Singapore, led the fight to end white-minority rule in what was then Rhodesia, and ruled Zimbabwe from its independence in 1980 until he was deposed. During his 37-year authoritarian leadership, Zimbabwe descended from prosperity to economic crisis marked by hyperinflation, unemployment and a drastic drop in living conditions for its 16 million people.
The shortages and power cuts lasting up to 19 hours a day are the latest symptoms of Zimbabwe’s economic decline that began in 2000 when Mugabe launched the seizures of farms owned by whites. The chaotic, often violent confiscations triggered a collapse of the once productive agricultural sector and began a downward economic spiral.
Mugabe’s body was to be displayed at several historic locations before burial Sunday at an as yet unannounced site, a sign of the friction between the ex-leader’s family and the government.Widow Grace Mugabe, her face covered in a heavy black veil, sat next to Mnangagwa as Mugabe’s casket, draped with a Zimbabwean flag, was wheeled to a podium by top military generals, several of whom had participated in his ouster.
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