[ek_hornbeck]

People automatically assume that the fall of an autocrat means that something better will take its place. They do so in spite of all historical (and recent) evidence to the contrary. You need only look at the post-"Arab Spring" Middle East to see what happens when one autocrat is gone: he's replaced with a worse one, or else the nation descends into even worse chaos.

I suspect that Mangangwa will persecute Zimbabwe's whites even more than Mugabe did, because he needs to prove his bona fides to the masses, and his basketcase of a country needs a scapegoat.

[kearnyirish2]

I never assumed it would be an improvement - but there are a LOT less whites to persecute at this point. They took their property years ago; enough blacks worked on those farms to know the black government is the problem.