Robert Mugabe: down but not yet out
Mail & Guardian Online, South Africa - March 22, 2007

Almost every tribe on Earth has a metaphor for the law of unintended consequences. The Oromo people of Ethiopia say, "After you have thrown the spear, you cannot take hold of its end." At the beginning of March, with trademark arrogance, Robert Mugabe's regime launched a physical assault on the Zimbabwean opposition. The unintended consequences of these actions have been sweeping, and are widely considered to herald the ruin of the protagonist...