{"id":2359,"date":"2008-04-01T17:00:10","date_gmt":"2008-04-01T22:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2359"},"modified":"2008-04-01T17:00:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T22:00:10","slug":"good-tidings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=2359","title":{"rendered":"Good Tidings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Regular NARN caller Quentin from Zimmerman must be happy &#8211; or happi<em>er<\/em>, anyway &#8211; today.\u00a0 After thirty years of leading their mutual homeland Zimbabwe on a social and economic kamikaze ride, Robert Mugabe is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/s\/afp\/20080401\/wl_africa_afp\/zimbabwevotemugabequit\">calling it a long-overdue quits<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe is ready to step down after he accepted he failed to win the country\u2019s presidential election, a senior source in his ruling party and diplomats told AFP Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>An official in Mugabe\u2019s ZANU-PF party said the long-ruling president was prepared to step down but was still trying to win agreement from the army\u2019s chief of staff Constantine Chiwenga.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Ed <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2008\/04\/01\/reports-mugabe-to-resign\/\">notes <\/a>at Hot Air:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He took the former nation of Rhodesia and reduced it to pauper status. Zimbabwe had a booming agriculture industry and the beginnings of industrialization when he took charge. Thanks to a mix of statism, post-colonial petulance, and sheer stupidity, Zimbabwe cannot feed itself after being a net exporter, and all of the capital that promised to bring modernization to the country has fled to avoid confiscation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ll leave the obvious Minnesota\/DFL parallels to the rest of you.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE:\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mg.co.za\/articlePage.aspx?articleid=336017&#038;area=\/breaking_news\/breaking_news__africa\/\">Not so fast<\/a>, says South Africa&#8217;s Johannesburrg Mail and Guardian:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai and the Zimbabwe government both denied on Tuesday that they were in talks to arrange the resignation of President Robert Mugabe. At a news conference on Tuesday evening, Tsvangirai confirmed, however, for the first time personally that his party had won the elections.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Keep your fingers crossed.\u00a0 Zimbabwe has suffered enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regular NARN caller Quentin from Zimmerman must be happy &#8211; or happier, anyway &#8211; today.\u00a0 After thirty years of leading their mutual homeland Zimbabwe on a social and economic kamikaze ride, Robert Mugabe is calling it a long-overdue quits: Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe is ready to step down after he accepted he failed to win [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}