"Curiously, it is hard not to be a little optimistic about the future for Zimbabwe . The fear is not that there will be mass slaughter of the whites, followed by their flight to South Africa and the collapse of the economy, but that the need to retain white confidence may mean that the blacks are badly disappointed."
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