Originally Posted by skeptic-f

Mugabe didn't still the holdings of white farmers because he was a racist: he stole them because he was an unprincipled leader determined to stay in power and in need of some goodies to hand out to influential people. In fact, everything Mugabe has done in the last decade or so has been a desperate scramble to hang onto the reins of power - and it has worked! The minor side effect of the complete destruction of the economy and of state services (HIV/AIDS programs have declined sharply in a nation with perhaps the highest percentage of infected people in the world, for example) is a small price to pay.

Right now, even his cronies are rueing their support of Mugabe, but no-one is willing to step forward and do anything about it (except to increase the size of their foreign bank accounts). Apparently everyone is waiting for a bolt of lightning to come down and strike Mugabe dead, but God doesn't work like that. Someone is going to have to remove Mugabe soon, or there won't be much of a Zimbabwe left to save.