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"Mugabe" redirects here. For other uses, see Mugabe (disambiguation).
Robert Gabriel Mugabe
Mugabe at the African Union summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on 31 January 2008.
President of Zimbabwe
Incumbent Assumed office
31 December 1987 Vice President Joseph Msika
Joice Mujuru Preceded by Canaan Banana Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
In office
18 April 1980 – 31 December 1987 President Canaan Banana Preceded by Abel Muzorewa (Zimbabwe Rhodesia) Succeeded by Post abolished Secretary General of Non-Aligned Movement
In office
06 September 1986 – 07 September 1989 Succeeded by Janez Drnovšek Born 21 February 1924 (1924-02-21) (age 84)
Kutama, Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia Political party ZANU-PF Spouse Sally Hayfron (deceased)
Grace Marufu Alma mater University of Fort Hare
University of London
University of South Africa Religion Roman Catholic Signature
Robert Gabriel Mugabe (born February 21, 1924) is a Zimbabwean politician. He has served as the head of government since 1980, as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as the first executive President since 1987.[1] Since the run-off election of 2008 his legitimacy as president has been called into question; the G8 nations released a statement in July saying they "do not accept the legitimacy of a government that does not reflect the will of the Zimbabwean people".[2]He rose to prominence in the 1960s as the Secretary general of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU). For many years in the 60s and 70s Mugabe was a political prisoner in Rhodesia. His goal was to replace white minority-rule with a one-party Marxist regime.[3] He left Rhodesia in 1976 to join the Zimbabwe Liberation Struggle (Rhodesian Bush War) from bases in Mozambique. At the end of the war in 1979, Mugabe emerged as a hero in the minds of Africans.[4][5] He won the general elections of 1980, the second in which the majority black Africans participated, amid reports of violent intimidation by the militant freedom fighters he now controlled. Mugabe then became the first Prime Minister of black-ruled Zimbabwe after calling for reconciliation between formerly warring parties, including the white people as well as rival parties.
The early years of Mugabe's rule saw killings targeting the Ndebele tribe in the Matabeleland and Midlands areas of Zimbabwe. Since 1998 Mugabe's policies have increasingly elicited domestic and international denunciation. His government pursued a costly intervention in the Second Congo War, expropriated thousands of white-owned farms, printed hundreds of trillions of Zimbabwean dollars triggering hyperinflation,[6] and has been accused of harassing and intimidating political opponents, particularly members of the Movement for Democratic Change.[7] Zimbabwe's economy spiraled downward,[8] with food and oil shortages,[9] and with massive internal displacement[10] and emigration.[11] During this period Mugabe's policies have been denounced in the West and at home as racist against Zimbabwe's white minority.[12][13][14] Mugabe has described his critics as "born again colonialists",[15][16] and both he and his supporters claim Zimbabwe's problems are the legacy of imperialism,[17] aggravated by Western economic meddling.
Mugabe lost the first round of the 2008 election to opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai, 43% to 48%, though neither candidate secured the 50% necessary to avoid a runoff election. The MDC claimed that the official results had been altered to force a run-off vote, since their returns suggested that Tsvangirai had received 50.3% of the vote.[18]
yep macho hi is areal thieferanga_m said:Robert Mugabe !! President of Zimbabwe
Indeed he is a 1st class thief
Machan, oya western countries wala ewun kiyana ewa ahala, nodanna ewa gena katha karanna epa..........api Zimbabwe wala ground situation eka danne nane??? Api danne western media walin kiyana bias wel baila witharai...............oya "BALLA" kiyana wachanaya ochchara sehelluwen use karanna epa
