ZIMBABWE MARKS 30 YEARS OF LEFT-WING MUGABE RULE

BBC:

Zimbabwe declared independence on 18 April 1980, following a seven-year conflict against Rhodesia's white minority rule. Mr Mugabe, a former guerrilla leader, was elected president.

Independence also brought crippling international sanctions to an end.

The new country was widely seen as a new model for Africa.

Zimbabwe experienced strong growth in its first decade but the economy began to decline in the 1990s.

In 2000 Mr Mugabe launched a controversial land reform programme, seizing white-owned farms and handing them to blacks.

In the following years, farm production and the currency went into free fall. The one-time food exporter became dependent on aid.

Meanwhile Mr Mugabe suppressed the opposition, saying it was in league with former colonial power Britain.

MUGABE WAS NOT A LIBERATOR; MUGABE WAS AND REMAINS A SOCIALIST AND A RACIST.

MUGABE'S ANTI-CAPITALIST AND ANTI-WHITE POLICIES HAVE DESTROYED THE ECONOMY OF THIS ONCE PROSPEROUS NATION.

THE LESSON: TURN LEFT AND FALL OFF THE CLIFF.

IT WILL HAPPEN HERE IF WE DON'T STOP OBAMA.

WE CAN STOP HIM THIS NOVEMBER: VOTE GOP.