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 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Under fire at home and abroad for despotic rule in a collapsing country, Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is courting old allies in the liberation brotherhood in a desperate hunt for support and legitimacy.
Analysts say in a bid to keep the loyalty of an oppressed people and support from Africa's brotherhood of liberation movements, Mugabe has turned up the volume on his anti-colonialist rhetoric in the campaign for Thursday's parliamentary elections.
Zimbabwe is troubled by massive state-sanctioned human rights abuses, repressive security and media laws, rampant unemployment, a compromised judiciary, an economy teetering on collapse, failing health and education systems and severe shortages of food, fuel and other basic commodities.
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