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Robert Mugabe
President of Zimbabwe from 1987 to 2017
For his son, see Robert Mugabe Jr. For the Ugandan military officer, see Robert Freeman Mugabe.
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Robert Gabriel Mugabe (;[1]Shona:[muɡaɓe]; 21 February 1924 – 6 September 2019) was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017. Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a Marxist–Leninist, and as a socialist during the 1990s and the remainder of his career.
Mugabe was born to a poor Shona family in Kutama, Southern Rhodesia. Educated at Kutama College and the University of Fort Hare in South Africa, he then worked as a schoolteacher in Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, and Ghana. Angered by white minority rule of his homeland within the British Empire, Mugabe embraced Marxism and joined African nationalists calling for an independent state controlled by the black majority. After making antigovernmental comments, he w
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Mujuru death set to up shake political scene
http://www.theindependent.co.zw/
Thursday, 18 August 2011 20:53
Dumisani Muleya
THE mysterious death of Zimbabwe’s most decorated retired army general and
political kingmaker Solomon Mujuru in a blaze which burnt him to ashes in
the early hours of Tuesday would almost certainly have far-reaching
consequences on Zimbabwe’s political landscape.
Given that Mujuru was a towering figure in Zimbabwe’s political scene before
and after Independence from Britain in 1980, his shock death, which left
emotional scars and anger in its trail, would inevitably fuel the already
vicious power struggle within the faction-ridden Zanu PF which President
Robert Mugabe (pictured), gradually losing control due to old age and
ill-health, is tenuously struggling to keep together.
Mugabe’s cutthroat succession battle is increasingly becoming a clear and
present danger to Zanu PF and Zimbabwe’s future.
This is now widely acknowledged within the party,
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