AFRICAN EYE

By Rawlings Magede Robert Mugabe has gone to meet his maker. While for now the tussle over his burial place has been put to rest after the family buried him in his rural home, it is now time to revert back to reality. There is no doubt that the tussle over Mugabe’s final resting place had diverted national attention. While on one hand, his former party ,ZANU PF has appeared to have lost that fight, there is no doubt that the final move by Mugabe’s family has further exposed the administration failure to even override Mugabe’s decision even in his death. While Mugabe’s family and his loyalists continue to pontificate about his legacy, what remains factual is that during his reign, he ruled with an iron fist and cared less about his people. The Pan Africanist mantra can only be measured against his endless lectures at international platforms on the need to liberate Africa (Africa’s solutions, to African problems, whatever that means).I deliberately avoided writing an obituary on the