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Sep 6, 2019 · Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean independence icon turned authoritarian leader, has died aged 95. Mr Mugabe had been receiving treatment in a hospital in Singapore since April. He was ousted in...
Sep 6, 2019 · Mugabe died Friday morning at Singapore’s Gleneagles Hospital, according to Singapore’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The Ministry expressed their condolences and said it was working with the...
Sep 6, 2019 · Robert Mugabe, the first prime minister and later president of independent Zimbabwe, who traded the mantle of liberator for the armor of a tyrant and presided over the decline of one of...
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Sep 6, 2019 · Mugabe resigned in 2017 after a military intervention and impeachment proceedings amid economic turmoil and human rights violations. He was a liberation fighter and champion of Africa's cause against colonialism, but also faced criticism and sanctions from the West.
- A ‘Master Politician’ and ‘Tragic Figure’
- His Revolutionary Roots
- Corruption and Nepotism Erode Early Successes
- His Controversial Legacy
It was that deft wielding of rewards, and punishment, for supporters and detractors alike that put Mugabe in power and kept him there for so long, says Zimbabwean-born Charles Laurie, director and head of politics at the London-based Verisk Maplecrof risk analysis firm. Mugabe was a “master politician, and something of a tragic figure, never having...
Educated at missionary schools in what was then known as the English colony of Rhodesia, Mugabe went on to study at Fort Hare University in South Africa, where he first encountered the revolutionary politics of the African National Congress. Mugabe’s newfound political activism earned him a decade-long prison term for sedition a few years after he ...
But the adulation didn’t last. By the time he became president in 1987, corruption and nepotism had started to erode those early successes. In 2000, Zimbabwe’s economic growth had slowed substantially, and Mugabe encountered growing political opposition. In response, he launched a populist land reform program, expropriating white-owned farms and gi...
Zimbabweans had every reason to celebrate the end of an era defined by economic mismanagement, government corruption and human rights abuses, but after nearly four decades of dictatorship, expectations of rapid improvement in the country’s economy and political direction went unmet. Mugabe’s successor, former Vice President Mnangagwa, promised a ne...
Sep 6, 2019 · Robert Mugabe, the former president of Zimbabwe who became an African liberation hero after toppling white colonial rule but then led his country to economic collapse and the brink of...
Sep 6, 2019 · Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe passed away on Sept 6, 2019, after a long illness, according to his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa. He was a liberation icon and a Pan-Africanist who ruled Zimbabwe for nearly four decades.
