{"id":1088,"date":"2007-12-15T10:51:15","date_gmt":"2007-12-15T10:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/?p=1088"},"modified":"2016-03-10T14:34:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T14:34:07","slug":"spectator-15th-december-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/africaresearchinstitute.org\/wordpress\/spectator-15th-december-2007\/","title":{"rendered":"The Spectator, 15 December 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Zimbabwe celebrated its independence in April 1980 President Nyerere of Tanzania had a piece of advice for Robert Mugabe: \u2018You have inherited a jewel. Keep it that way.\u2019 At first, it seemed that Mugabe would take his fellow socialist\u2019s advice. 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