COMMENT | It is said, that behind every angry wife, is a husband who does not know what he has done wrong. Filled with self-pity, he needs to make amends and get back into her good books; but if only he knew how he upset his wife.

The husband who is in the dog-house can empathise with a deposed tyrant.

A nation may feel cursed with a tyrant as its leader, but when he is deposed, he realises that at the end of the day, he is just another long-suffering husband who has been cursed by his greedy, power hungry and crazed First Lady.

The nation which removes the tyrant, can rejoice at its new beginning, but the deposed tyrant can only repent at leisure. Marie Antoinette, Imelda Marcos and Grace "Gucci" Mugabe were so reviled by their respective rakyat that they acted to remove their husbands.

For as long as I can remember, a deterioration in the Malaysian economy is often followed by the collective groan, "We will end up like Zimbabwe. A country in debt. The ringgit will be worth nothing. Our nation will be bankrupt."

Zimbabwe and Malaysia. Two countries on different continents. Zimbabwe was once known as the "Bread basket of Africa"; Malaysia was once dubbed the workhorse of The British Empire and its wealth, in tin, rubber and petroleum reserves, helped to rebuild Britain after WWII.

Both countries have an abundance of natural resources and until recently, these two nations, were on their knees. Incredibly, Zimbabweans seized the chance and opted for change.

Last December, the people of Zimbabwe decided to take their own fate in their hands. First, they kicked out their president, Robert Mugabe, and ended his 40 year grip on their lives. Then, they gave their sacked vice-president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, the mandate to rule...