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Robert Mugabe
Warfare
The Demise of Zimbabwe
In the first decade, probably a decade and a half of Robert Mugabe's place at the summit of Zimbabwean politics as Prime Minister and then President. He achieved extraordinary things in terms of education and primary healthcare delivery. But by the beginning of the 1990s, there were two successive droughts which hit the Zimbabwean rural economy and its food security very hard. So you've got land hunger building up. You've also got Zimbabwean economy had started to stutter and falter. They took out a structural adjustment loan from the international financial agencies. And that brought in a period of austerity, rolling back the state, the budgetary expenditure on the public service, civil service,. rising cost
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