Robert Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who led Zimbabwe from 1980 until he was deposed in a coup in 2017. He served as the first Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from internationally recognised independence in 1980 to 1987, then as the second president of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017. He was also the Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) as its First Secretary, from 1980 to 2017.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Kutama
- Educated at
- Kutama CollegeUniversity of London WorldwideUniversity of OxfordUniversity of South AfricaUniversity of Fort Hare
- Awards
- 🏆 Order of the Grand Conqueror🏆 Order of the Bath🏆 Order of the Yugoslav Star🏆 Confucius Peace Prize🏆 Order of José Martí
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Trending topics shown first"I am still the Hitler of the time. This Hitler has only one objective, justice for his own people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people, and their right to their r…"
"Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!"
"Africa must revert to what it was before the imperialists divided it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove."
"Let Mr. Bush read history correctly. Let him realise that both personally and in his representative capacity as the current President of the United States, he stands for this "civilisation" which occu…"
"We are now being coerced to accept and believe that a new political-cum-religious doctrine has arisen, namely that there is but one political God, George W Bush, and Tony Blair is his prophet."
"Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is Zimbabwe? … What is lacking now are goods on the shelves—that is all."
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1924
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Birth2019
Died
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