Spring in Zimbabwe.

As you must already know, this week has seen Robert Mugabe finally removed from power in Zimbabwe after 37 years. Like with the Arab Spring and the 1989 Eastern Bloc revolutions et al, people power has eventually triumphed. Since taking office in 1980, Mugabe's regime ran the gamut from economic inequality and sky-high inflation to internally corrupt governance and widespread, systemic human and civil rights violations. I'm sure thousands, maybe millions of Zimbabweans never thought they'd live to see Mugabe's downfall, but now they have.

However, now, of course, their nation needs rebuilding, like its reputation. And their incoming government must lead that charge, but regardless I've no doubt all those who openly fought to depose Mugabe will roll their sleeves up for that task, given the determination with which they pursued Mugabe's overthrowing. Nonetheless, it is up to Zimbabwe's incoming government to truly restore democracy and thus ensure their fight was not in vain.

Finally, I acknowledge the republic government system isn't perfect, despite my longstanding push for it here in Australia. Mugabe's such government is one of many which proves that. But it still means a people's head of state is one of their own, and Westminster-style governments have had blood galore on their own hands. Case in point: that of Hendrik Verwoerd, the mastermind of apartheid in South Africa.