Letter: Mugabe's dictatorship.(Comment)(Letter to the Editor) From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: January 17, 2002 | COPYRIGHT 2002 Independent Newspapers (UK) Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Sir: While I would not wish to defend the Rhodesian regime replaced by Zanu-PF and Robert Mugabe in 1980, there was one aspect in which they were absolutely correct. When faced with demands for "one man, one vote", they looked to the rest of Africa and observed: "One man. One vote. Once."

It has take the rest of us a little time to catch on, but the history of Zimbabwe since independence has been one of progressive repression of democracy, beginning in the years following independence with the slaughter in Matabeleland of ...