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Zimbabwe: State of Denial
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Zimbabwe: State of Denial

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Zimbabwe marks thirty years of independence in this film, and thirty years under Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party, a milestone that the film treats less as celebration than reckoning. It examines the power-sharing government formed after the disputed 2008 election, pairing ZANU-PF with the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, and asks whether either side is willing to admit how badly the country has fallen short of what independence promised. The film argues that both parties have settled into a kind of denial, each blaming the other while ordinary conditions, an economy that collapsed into hyperinflation, a health system that failed, political violence that went unpunished, remain unresolved. Made for Al Jazeera English, it is a piece of current-affairs reporting rather than a historical retrospective, built around the argument that a country cannot start its fourth decade honestly while its leaders refuse to name what went wrong in the first three.