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Founding President of Zimbabwe, Mr Robert Mugabe, ousted from power in 2017 after 37 years, died on Friday at a private hospital in Singapore. He was 95. “His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten,” says the current president of the country, Mr Emmerson Mnangagwa who described his late predecessor and mentor as “an icon of liberation, a Pan-Africanist who dedicated his life to the emancipation and empowerment of his people”.
Tendai Biti, a former finance minister in Zimbabwe, sees in Mugabe “a man who was a coalition of controversies, who failed to transform himself from a liberation leader to a national leader.”we should also place on record the fact that both in Zimbabwe and Africa, he oday, Zimbabwe is one of the most educated countries in Africa with a literacy rate of 89 per cent, according to the World Bank.
Mugabe started life as a school teacher with seven university degrees. He rose to political prominence by leading a guerrilla war against the white colonial rulers of his country and he was jailed in the process. He went on to become the first post-independent president. And in the early years of his rule, Mugabe expanded social services, including building schools and hospitals and was generally a good leader until he overstayed his welcome.
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