Documentary Description
Dispatches investigates how Robert Mugabe and politicians in his
ZANU-PF party are still clinging on to power in Zimbabwe, focusing on
the businessmen who are benefiting from or supporting his campaign of
political violence. According to opposition politicians in
Zimbabwe, those businessmen include well-known figures and companies
based in the City of London. Following last year's disputed elections
and political violence, a power-sharing 'National Unity Government' was
established in Zimbabwe. Robert Mugabe remains as President, with the
leader of the Movement for Democratic Change, Morgan Tsvangirai , Prime
Minister. Tsvangirai has been touring the world trying to get aid to
Zimbabwe to help its hungry people and restart its decaying economy. However,
working undercover in Zimbabwe, Dispatches reporter Aidan Hartley
discovers that Mugabe has maintained his grip on the police, army and
central bank, enabling him and his allies to continue carrying out
violence and corruption on a vast scale.
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