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    On election day, the 'new Zimbabwe' looks closer – but still stubbornly far away

    Jul 30, 2018 4 minutes
    Progress Garakara holds her daughter Aleeya, who was born the day that Robert Mugabe resigned as president.

    It’s strange now to think of that day, the one where Moreblessing Mutsakani’s life cleaved in half. The day that broke the world in two.

    But that’s how it will always be: before Nov. 21, 2017, and after.

    Before was Robert Gabriel Mugabe’s Zimbabwe. Mr. Mugabe was Zimbabwe, and Zimbabwe was Mugabe. You just didn’t have one without the other. After a while, it had become almost impossible to imagine you ever could.

    Until that day, when he was just gone, and the country’s strange new after could finally begin.

    But for Ms. Mutsakani, that day represented another before, and another after. Before Nov. 21, 2017, there was also no

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