Mugabe's Criticism: The Characteristics Of Authoritarianism In Zimbabwe

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Authoritarianism is a form of government ruled by a single person or a small group and limited political freedom or individual freedom. Its characteristics included government held individual freedom, limited political freedom, and prevented political opponents and anti-regime activity. However, most of authoritarian government were different from one another because some allowed more and some allowed less freedom. Noticeably, Zimbabwe is a country which is being ruled by authoritarian government of Robert Mugabe. Zimbabwe geographically located in Southern Africa; in addition, it is bordered by Zambia in the north, Mozambique in the east, Botswana in the West, and South Africa in the south. Therefore, this essay aim to assess of Robert Mugabe’s …show more content…

Since the mid 1990s, the amount of Zimbabweans living below poverty line had more than double. In 2006, the World Health Organization reported that people living in Zimbabwe had one of the lowest life expectancy in the world. The average life expectancy for women was 34 years and for men was 37 years. The World Health Organization estimated that some 3,500 Zimbabweans died every week through the deadly combination of HIV/AIDS, poverty and malnutrition. Mugabe government did not aware of his people’s well-being, especially the widely spread of HIV/AIDS. Nonetheless, that government only kept everything to maintain its hold on power and just leaving little money or no money for HIV/AIDS prevention and most of Zimbabwe suffered from malnutrition, so they needed food aid, but the government neglected about the extent of the problem, leaving them to …show more content…

The situation remains unstable because the corruption remains a severe problem at every level of government. The country economy is increased very slowly and face cash shortage. The government faced difficulties in paying civil service salaries which led to protest. In other hand, people are living under poverty, facing food shortage and disease. Government still limits political freedom by threatening political opponents and stops freedom of expression of people and media. The other issue is Mugabe has planned to rule the country for another 5 years in 2018

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