The Queen’s death has highlighted divisions in Zimbabwe between those who have offered sympathy and lament the time spent outside the organisation, and those who are more indifferent or openly hostile about the legacy of British colonialism in Africa.
Zimbabwe’s unique role as a former Commonwealth nation that is now seeking to rejoin has highlighted local ambivalence toward the royal family
The local landmarks named for the monarch, who died aged 96 at Balmoral last Thursday, are concrete representations of the ties linking Zimbabwe, a former British colony, to the United Kingdom.The Queen’s death has highlighted divisions between those who have offered sympathy and lament the time spent outside the organisation, and those who are more indifferent or openly hostile about the legacy of British colonialism in Africa.
A violent and disputed 2002 presidential poll resulted in Mr Mugabe facing criticism from the West and the country being suspended from the Commonwealth in March 2002. In December 2003 Mr Mugabe quit the 54-nation bloc in protest after it resolved to extend sanctions against his regime.President Emmerson Mnangagwa
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