of robert mugabe, we do not see that there has been any improvement.ke us on that journey, because you talk about the disillusionment and the reality of zimbabwe today — but it didn't start like that, did it? i mean, there was a great deal of hope, optimism, even euphoria, after colonialism, the war of independence, independence, and then you got mugabe. i mean, surely there were great moments? yes, zeinab. i remember being in harare in 1980, when zanu—pf won the elections, and just seeing people streaming through the streets celebrating. this came at the end of a war that had lasted for one—and—a—half decades, and in which just about the whole population had participated in one way or another. rural people engaged with the guerrillas — they fed them, they hid them. they took the brunt of rhodesian security forces�* onslaught in the security forces�* attempt to apprehend the guerrillas. and people had contributed money and other resources to the war effort. so, it felt like we had managed to do something good for ourselves, for once, all together as a