In se hours a city flies. She intoxicates herself, is drunk with joy. The beggars forget to beg, man leaves tap, a soldier descends from tank to flirt. The brokers run out onto streets, and priests, office workers, housewives do it after m. A far pulls his two little sons behind him, he wants to take pictures with m in front of tanks, "so that one day y can stick to photo album and say: We were re at this historic moment."
Strange people embrace streets, take ir hands and dance. No drug in world could have effected what triggered this message, which spreads quickly to Harare, just before 6pm this Tuesday, capital of Zimbabwe in sourn Africa. They yell at it, from car to car, from house to house. "We are FREE!"
Robert Mugabe, 93-year-old dictator, who dominated country for 37 years, has just resigned. For years y have remained silent, always whispered, now y want to call, sing and celebrate. "We never dared to talk about politics," a student calls. "Now eat, drink, sleep and dream politics!"
Zimbabwe President Mugabe appears to be back President of Zimbabwean Parliament has announced that long-time President Robert Mugabe will voluntarily resign. Cheers broke out with assembled deputies. © Photo: Mike Hutchings, ReutersWhen tanks had been in Harare a week ago, people in whole capital electrified. But re were also cautious like Prince Nzou.
His work so far was to read dictator well. Prince Nzou was just about to design a party poster, a picture on which 93-year-old would look much more vital than in reality: Mugabe between cob and cheering followers, who are supposed to symbolize a wealth and an enthusiasm that it Country for a long time.
This article dates back to time No. 48/2017. Here you can read entire output.Prince Nzou was born 1982, two years after dictator seized power. Since he began working as chief designer of governing party Zanu PF three years ago, he has printed Mugabe's picture on thousands of T-shirts, stickers, posters and posters. The poster he was working on when most powerful man in country landed in house arrest should be promoting extraordinary party congress in December. Mugabe's wife Grace was to be named vice president and successor of her husband after a long party-internal power struggle.
When people of neighbouring houses began to cheer, Prince Nzou snuck fear. If Mugabe were to fall, what would that mean to him?
Time OnlinePrince Nzou does not want to read his real name in newspaper. He has worked his way up from a simple party member to a-he calls it-"someone" who now has to be afraid of "losing certain privileges". He has seen enough power struggles and purges in his political career to understand that in Zimbabwe it is better not to put everything on one card. "Never show that you belong to a person," he says, "but always to party."
For this is an organization that was born in liberation struggle, is oriented according to Leninist principles and whose members have become accustomed after 37 years to fact that all power comes from m. There are sombre and ambitious fighters in this party, men who have experienced guerrilla warfare, prison and torture. And re are many "who are trained to bend after wind," says Nzou.
Date Of Update: 26 November 2017, 12:02
