For the first time in 28 years of increasingly reckless and vile rule, Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe looks as if he may go (see page 67). But only may. He has rigged elections before the one on March 29th. He has ruined his country. He has thernruthless, delusional fanaticism of a clever man who is frightened of being toppled-and perhaps put on trial for his copious human-rights abuses. But this time there is at least a chance he may quit. And if he does, the West, along with Zimbabwe's comparatively very rich big neighbour, South Africa, and its increasingly prosperous small one, diamond-wealthy Botswana, should get together, with institutions such as thernimf and the World Bank, to pile in as generously as possible with advice, cash and, of course, some minimal conditions.
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