Mugabe moves to pre-empt Egypt-style uprising

BY CAIPHAS CHIMHETE

THE ongoing arrests of human rights activists in the country is an attempt by an increasingly paranoid President Robert Mugabe to quash mounting dissent before it replicates mass uprisings in North Africa, political analysts have said.
Mugabe, who turned 87 years old last week, fears that the revolution wave, which toppled Tunisian and Egyptian presidents, might cascade down south to engulf the country he has ruled with an iron fist for the past three decades, the analysts said.

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Mugabe moves to pre-empt Egypt-style uprising