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What happened in Zimbabwe was a case study of how obsession with power transforms a well-meaning leader who fought for the freedom of his people into a leader who presides over their oppression, writes Mpumelelo Mkhabela.
In what became his last appearance at the United Nations General Assembly in September 2017, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe gave a decent speech. For the brutal dictator that he was, the use of the word decent to describe any of his actions does not sound decent at all.
