Life in Zimbabwe was easier under Robert Mugabe than the “dour, greedy” former enforcer who succeeded him as president, a leading opposition figure has claimed after the latest vicious crackdown by security forces.
The brutality of baton-wielding riot police, who witnesses said had focused on women, coincided with the renaming of dozens of streets in honour of President Mnangagwa to mark the second anniversary of the ousting of Mugabe, who died in September.
“We are only now realising that under Mugabe things were actually softer, that he was shielding us from the mongrels that lurked behind him, the same bloodthirsty mongrels that are now in power,” Tendai Biti, the country’s respected former finance minister, told The Times. Mr Biti, 53, served in a unity