Epoch Times:
HARARE, Zimbabwe—Robert Mugabe, the former leader of Zimbabwe forced to resign in 2017 after a 37-year rule marred in its later stages by economic turmoil, disputed elections and human rights violations, has died. He was 95.
His successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa confirmed Mugabe’s death in a tweet Friday, saying, “His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten. May his soul rest in eternal peace.”
Mugabe, who took power after white minority rule ended in 1980, once said he wanted to rule for life. But growing discontent about the southern African country’s fractured leadership and other problems prompted a military intervention, impeachment proceedings by the parliament and large street demonstrations for his removal.
The announcement of Mugabe’s Nov. 21, 2017 resignation after he initially ignored escalating calls to quit triggered wild celebrations in the streets of the capital, Harare. Well into the night, cars honked and people danced and sang in a spectacle of free expression that would have been impossible during his years in power and reflected hopes for a better future. read more
Buh bye, racist, Marxist thug
Mugabe will be remembered as the prototypical African strong man. He “liberated” his people only to utterly destroy the nation he and his followers inherited. A legacy of ruination, repression and violence that kept him in power for decades.
“He fell after stepping off a plane…read the wrong speech at the opening of parliament and appeared to be dozing during a news conference.”
What a resume. He could have been a Democrat front runner here.
He joined his buddies Stalin, Mao, Pol Pot, Castro, and Chavez in Hell.
@Thirdtwin – he could have been a Dem frontrunner this year! Are we sure they can’t prop him up or something?
^^^ LCD, His spirit lives on in the Democrat party.
And the left wept.
Idi Amin’s brother by a different mother.
He’s not dead enough. He needs to be deader.
I hope that prick died hard. He took power of a country that was the breadbasket of southern Africa and instead of making it a model of how blacks and whites could reconcile and make an even stronger country he promoted a “get even” approach for wrongs committed by the whites (both real but mostly imagined) and initiated a quasi socialist dictatorship based on fear, revenge, envy, hatred, violence, graft, cronyism, theft and insane economic policy. One of the shames is that South Africa seems to looking at this as a model in how their transition should be.
Obama would hit that!
Ahh … just prop him up in a chair and appoint him to the Supreme Court – he and Ruth Buzzie Ginsberg will get along famously.
Doesn’t matter if they’re dead – as long as they vote correctly!
izlamo delenda est …
This is terrible news. But only because I’m reading it now and not 30 years ago.
“His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten. May his soul rest in eternal peace.”
FISKING TIME!:
“His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten.”
Damned straight! His accomplishments in driving the country and the economy into poverty, recession, triple digit inflation – will never be forgotten.
“May his soul rest in eternal peace.”
May his soul burn in eternal hell.
There. Fixed it for ya. Yer welcome.
Good!
MORE PLEASE!
Being a Two Legged Blue Eyed Cracker means I am a target of this ilk’s fearsome wrath. I need to run as fast as a cracker can!
In addition to his political philosophy, it looks like he also gives his fashion tips to Rep. Frederica Wilson.
South Africa is next. They will get the next Mugabe and destroy everything they have.
Of course the U.N. will step in and offer aid, etc, etc, etc, ad infinitum. Rinse and repeat.
But Hey! All cultures are equal! All beliefs are equal!
Mugabe even out obamaed Obama! We took hits from our traitor but we still survived him. Rhodesia/Zimbabwe did not survive as a civilized, self supporting nation. And S. Africa has his son” in the wings – Julius Malema
S. African leaders seem eager to follow R.M.’s example.