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There is little question Robert Mugabe is destroying that country and it is rapidly becoming a humanitarian issue.

There was a fascinating episode of Wide Angle that compared Zimbabwe with its neighbour Botswana, which happens to be one of the most rapidly developing and successful sub-Saharan African nations. There is a major problem with Zimbabweans sneaking across the border to work illegally in Botswana because the prospect of making a good living in their home country is so austere.