Rise Zimbabwe_The coup that was not a coup
For the first time in 37 years, the title of president of the republic of Zimbabwe and the name Robert Gabriel Mugabe are not mutually inclusive. It was perhaps, the most civilized military led removal of a democratically elected president that Africa has ever seen (notice I avoided using the word coup). There was no blood spilt, no violence, and no martial law. The Zimbabwean Defence force simply rolled into the presidential palace, placed Mugabe under house arrest and enabled ZANU- PF to reorganize itself. That reshuffle started with the removal of Robert Mugabe as president. The calm before the storm Zimbabweans will never forget what he did for them; freeing a country from the yolk of a colonial white surpremist government, earns that individual almost mythical status, the kind that Namibia accords Sam Nujoma - the founding father of the Namibian nation, the kind that results in Mandela still being held up as South Africa’s moral compass every time Jacob Zuma