The angry and frightened leader’s strategy, analysts say, is aimed at reminding Zimbabwe’s 11,9 million people about the inferior status of the black majority in white-ruled Rhodesia.
The obsessive focus on Britain also diverts attention from more mundane issues like a collapsing economy – underlined by 100,530 percent inflation – widespread corruption and Mugabe’s unbridled 28-year stranglehold on power.
“Nobody from the opposition will ever rule this country as long as I am still alive because I liberated this country from Britain in 1980,” he told a rally in Bulawayo on Sunday.
“What serious politician spends 80 per cent of his campaign time attacking his opponent and foreign countries instead of explaining to potential voters what he has to offer for them?” said political commentator Ronald Shumba. Tsvangirai agrees.
”Does it bring bread on the table to keep attacking Britain?” he asked supporters at an MDC rally on Sunday in Harare.
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