Unfortunately, the problem with an analysis like this is that there is no escape from the trap as long as the people play the government's game. The 17 in this article (or as many as can resist) and the rest of the populace must rise up and over through the corrupt, despotic government. They must worry about their lives in the form of seizing the instruments of government, taking the resources they need in the short term and installing a new government. If they don't, they will just spiral down into even worse privation and mass death at the hands of Mugabe.
...the rest of the populace must rise up and over through the corrupt, despotic government. I am not an apologist, but it is difficult to fight, when your belly is empty, and you are facing the wrong end of machine guns.
The white europeans who have spent their lives, and certainly made their fortunes (or not), have been forced to leave their homes, or die.
In the meantime, we are fighting another couple of wars, and can't respond her... and it is a shame.
Reverse apartheid and socialism are the downfall of many nations, and governments, in Africa. There seems to be little hope, after all they are only n..gers (sarcasm, with apologies, no offense intended), and even American-Africans don't seem to care!!!