It's funny but it seems that having these Lady Macbeth type of wives who control their husbands and motivate them to do all these evil and unacceptable things to cling to power happens a lot.
I think Mugabe wasn't half the tyrant that his wife was.
The same happened with Tzar Nicholas II of Russia. He left his wife in power, and his wife was having an affair with some weird Siberian long bearded hairy healing-monk-man... Obviously the Russian revolution wasn't far behind...
I mean it's just Pure Macbeth. Shakespear nailed it with the way these guys get played out by their wives...
Glad Mugabe will be stepping down. It's been a long time coming!
Hope Zimbabwe can recover from the years of insanity...
However, a disclaimer, if there is anything to be said about history repeating itself, he will step down.
The army will set up a provisional government.
They will try to hold election.
And a rising power that's been repressed for all this time in Zimbabwe will sweep through the country by force, over-turn the army, and declare a new kind of dictatorship, with the promise of helping Zimbabwe...
Sad, but you heard it here first I guess...
Thank you for the comments. I do not know whether Grace Mugabe was always as tyrannical as she has recently shown herself to be. Robert Mugabe, in my opinion, is a lot more dictatorial than she was, however, with the desperation of a successor I think she realised that she has an opportunity to gain power...
I am quite confident that this will not devolve into a military occupation as Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly returned to the country to take over. What does worry me is that Emmerson Mnangagwa is not exactly a good person...
Behind every great man is a great women...
So it is equally true that behind terrible tyrant, is an even scarier woman!
I know nothing of Emmerson Mnangagwa, but as you described it, he sounds like exactly like the kind of person that will sell out to international finance...
They will come, invest many dollars in Zimbabwe, fix the economy, profit immensely from a economically-devastated country, and then once they build it up, will leave and crash it again...
Just churning the wealth out of a country like a farmer milking a cow...
Sorry if this opinion sucks, but what hope does Zimbabwe really have?
It's always sad to see someone who initially had good ideas fail, and fail because he surrounds himself with the wrong people and ends up giving way to their corruption...
Mugabe would not have held on to power so long without feeding the piranhas...
Now that he is gone, the piranhas will do as they please
Pray for Zimbabwe :(