Robert Mugabe’s Legacy: Disease and Death
In 2005, Mugabe nationalized Zimbabwe’s urban water and sewerage services. The predictable result: water crisis.
In the townships, the water turns in a deadly cycle. Months without it mean that toilets are blocked, leading to people defecating in the open, everywhere, at night. At the same time, the pressure of the trapped sewage is enough to flip open cast-iron manhole covers and spew the contents through the streets, into people’s yards. The stench of faeces is all-pervasive.
No wonder cholera is killing hundreds in Zimbabwe.
When Mugabe is finally ousted, I hope he’ll be swinging from the highest tree in Harare. More probably though, some other African dictator will give him refuge. There, he’ll be able to call himself president in exile, with enough countries recognizing him as such.
(Via Norman Geras.)
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