OBITUARY: Robert Mugabe: ‘Power of Zimbabwe’ (1924 – 2019)
Born to a carpenter on February 21, 1924, in the then Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe was brought up and trained to be a teacher at Roman Catholic Mission School.
They later drifted apart as Mugabe became the founding member of the Zimbabwe African National Union . Soon, the Lancaster House agreement of 1979 set up a constitution for the new Republic of Zimbabwe, as Rhodesia was to be called, and set February 1980 for the first elections to the new government. Meanwhile, he reportedly championed a one-party system which led to him trying to stifle political opposition.In the mid-80s, there was a massacre of thousands of ethnic Ndebeles seen as Nkomo’s supporters in his home region of Matabeleland and Mugabe was linked to the killings committed by the Zimbabwean army’s North Korean-trained 5th Brigade.
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