There are things worse than Mugabe

Mugabe is a routine tyrant, who destroys the opposition and loots the country for himself and his followers, while people starve and the economy goes down the tubes.

But there are things worse than tyranny: It is civil war.

(I also worked in Liberia...
where a 14 year civil war killed a quarter million people)...

This LINK discusses how the economic collapse could deteriorate into Civil war in Zim also...

"....Now there are apparently signs of in the 40,000 man army. Some troops are protesting food shortages. Another beef in the military seems to be cuts in pay. South African sources report that troops involved in the protests have been confined to their barracks and some will be court-martialed. Mugabe is a dictator who relies on batons and bayonets to stay in power. If he's failing to pay the troops (the bayonets) his government's economic problems are indeed very serious. Mugabe needs to be removed from power. South Africa and Great Britain are the two foreign powers most likely to act against him, and both have demurred. That means Mugabe will either go by military coup, civil war, or, like Stalin, retain power into a frail, paranoid old age....."