19 key milestones in the life of Robert Mugabe RIPMugabe Zimbabwe FridayThoughts
1924 – Mugabe is born on February 21 in what was then British-ruled Southern Rhodesia.He teaches in Zambia and Ghana, where he is influenced by African independence movement leaders.
1982 – Mugabe deploys North Korean-trained troops to crush an insurgency by former guerrillas loyal to his liberation war rival Joshua Nkomo. 2000 – Zimbabweans reject a new constitution in a referendum, Mugabe’s first defeat at the ballot box. Zimbabwe is suspended from the British Commonwealth over accusations of human rights abuses and economic mismanagement.2008 – Hyperinflation reaches 500 billion per cent, the nadir of an economic implosion that forces millions of people to leave the country, many to neighbouring South Africa.
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