Zimbabwe Ex-President Robert Mugabe Died At The Age of 95

HARARE: Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean independence icon turned authoritarian leader whose 37-year rule left his country deeply divided and nearly broke, died on Friday at the age of 95 in a Singapore hospital, where he had been receiving treatment.

The country’s incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who took over from Robert Mugabe after the military seized control of the country in 2017, tweeted news of the latter’s death.

“It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe’s founding father and former President, Cde Robert Mugabe,” Emmerson Mnangagwa said.

The nonagenarian leader, who ruled the Southern African country for nearly four decades until being ousted, he had been receiving treatment in Singapore since April due to prolonged illness.

“Cde Mugabe was an icon of liberation, a pan-Africanist who dedicated his life to the emancipation and empowerment of his people. His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten. May his soul rest in eternal peace,” Emmerson Mnangagwa added.

Robert Mugabe was born on February 21, 1924. He began his political career as a leader in the quest for the independence of Zimbabwe — then known as Rhodesia — and was regularly compared to South Africa’s venerated freedom fighter Nelson Mandela. As a revolutionary guerrilla leader, he fought white minority rule and spent years in jail as a political prisoner.

In the mid-70s, Robert Mugabe assumed leadership of the political wing of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU-PF), a militant liberation movement which is based in Mozambique. From there, Robert Mugabe helped orchestrate an armed resistance against white rule, emerging as a war hero both at home and abroad when the conflict ended in 1979. (IANS)

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