But what are the chances that Mugabe will be replaced by someone who is not Mugabe II, and worse because the new guy has to build his empire out of a country already almost completely depleted. He won't have any prosperity to leech from to get going.
History is teaching us that African independence has only two political conditions; brutal tyranny or bloody civil war, with starvation being the common denominator. Mugabe's fall will likely usher in decades of the latter.