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Robert Gabriel Mugabe (born 1924) is the current President of Zimbabwe. He rose to power in 1980 and is currently the head of the Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF). Mugabe was born at Kutama Mission northwest of Salisbury. Mugabe was raised as a Roman Catholic, studying in Marist Brothers and Jesuit schools, including the exclusive Kutama College. He joined the National Democratic Party in 1960. |
In 1963 he helped the Reverend Ndabaningi Sithole to form the Zimbabwe African National Union ZANU as a breakaway from Joshua Nkomo's Zimbabwe African People's Union ZAPU. In 1964 he was arrested for “subversive speech” and spent the next 10 years in prison.
Mugabe unilaterally assumed control of ZANU from Mozambique. Later that year, after squabbling with Ndabaningi Sithole, Mugabe formed a militant ZANU faction, leaving Sithole to lead the moderate Zanu (Ndonga) party, which renounced violent struggle. Many opposition leaders mysteriously died during this time, including one who died in a car crash but was allegedly riddled with bullet holes. An opposing newspaper's printing press was bombed and its journalists tortured.
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elections in 1978 were won by the United African National Council under
Bishop Abel Muzorewa, but international recognition did not follow and
sanctions were not lifted. The two 'Patriotic Front' groups under Mugabe
and Joshua Nkomo refused to participate and continued the war. He was
then part of the talks during the Lancaster House Agreement The
early years of Mugabe's rule were punctuated by murders in particular
the targeting the Ndebele tribe in the Matabeleland and Midlands areas
of Zimbabwe. Mugabe accused the tribe of plotting to overthrow him after
a short-lived government of National Unity had crumbled when Mugabe sacked
Joshua Nkomo, leader of the Ndebele-dominated Zimbabwe African People's
Union party. Estimates on the scale of the killings perpetrated against
the Ndebeles vary but most experts put it around 30,000. The killings
were carried out by the Fifth Brigade, Mugabe's North Korean-trained personal
army, with Air Marshall Perence Shiri as the commander. |
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In 1983, Mugabe fired Nkomo from his cabinet, triggering bitter fighting between ZAPU supporters in the Ndebele-speaking region of the country and the ruling ZANU. Between 1982 and 1985, the military crushed armed resistance from Ndebele groups in the provinces of Matabeleland and the Midlands, leaving Mugabe's rule secure. A peace accord was negotiated in 1987. ZAPU merged into the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) on December 22, 1988.[22] Mugabe brought Nkomo into the government once again as a vice-president. In 1987, the position of Prime Minister was abolished and Mugabe assumed the new office of executive President of Zimbabwe gaining additional powers in the process. He was re-elected in 1990 and 1996, and in 2002 amid claims of widespread vote-rigging and intimidation. Mugabe's term of office expired at the end of March 2008. |
Robert Gaylord Mugabe on 'The Economy' - 'I'm like Robin Hood except I rob from the poor and then keep it myself'
He has a £5 mansion in Harare - his wife spends over £2 a year on shopping trips' The current average wage in Zimbabwee is £7 A YEAR!! (Dec 2007)
Robert Gaylord Mugabe on 'Race relations' - ' People think I hate whiteys - it's not true - I hate blacks to (who don't vote for me)
Didymus Mutasa (State Security Minister) 'We would be better off in this country with six milllion people, withour own peopple who supprt thre liberatuion struggle. We don't want all these extra people' The current population is about 12 million with 40,000 whites.
Robert Gaylord Mugabe on 'Homosexuality' - 'I like boys - what's wrong with that'
Mugabe indicts homosexuality as the product of morally degenerate colonial cultures and finds that such behaviors were not initially present in cultures . We think he secrtay fancied Canaan Banana.
Robert Gaylord Mugabe on Genocide - 'It's got a nasty ring to it now - but there's nothing like clearing out the rubbish'
Between 1982 and 1985 he commiting genoicde on the Ndebele tribes in the provinces of Matabeleland. This was known as Gukurahundi (“the early rain that washes away the chaff”) and was done by North Korean trained fighters.
He sent troops in the Second Congo war and supported the Hutu aligned forces who were responsible for the Rwanda genocide.
In 2005 Mugabe ordered "Operation Drive Out the Rubbish" a raid with a name very similar to the war against the Ndebele tribes. This 'operation' was executed against the dictator called 'illegal shelters' in Harare, resulting in 10,000 urban poor being left homeless and some being murdered in the process. It is commonly accepted that by forcing urban voters out into the rural areas the cities will be devoid of MDC supporters thus enabling the government to re-populate the shanty town areas with Zanu-PF supporters. The UN released a report stating that the actions of Mugabe resulted in the loss of home or livelihood for more than 700,000 Zimbabweans and negatively affected 2.4 million more.
Robert Gaylord Mugabe on 'Constituational Reform' - 'It's a good thing - I reform it so it suits me every few years'
In February 2000, a referendum was held on a new constitution. The proposed change would have limited future presidents to two terms, but as it was not retroactive, Mugabe could have stood for another two terms. It also would have made his government and military officials immune from prosecution for any illegal acts committed while in office. In addition, it allowed the government to confiscate white-owned land for redistribution to black farmers without compensation. The motion failed with 55% of participants against the referendum. Almost immediately, self-styled "war veterans", led by Chenjerai 'Hitler' Hunzvi, began invading white-owned farms. On April 6, 2000, Parliament pushed through an amendment, taken word for word from the draft constitution that was rejected by voters, allowing the seizure of white-owned farmlands without due reimbursement or payment.
Robert Gaylord Mugabe on 'The Criminal Justice System' - 'I love it - it lets me make anyone a criminal I want'
A quote from Robert Guests
'The Shackled Continent'
'Deligent Marowa had joined the MDC becuase he said it was time to throw the
crooks out of office. Mr Marowa was kidnapped after an MDC meeting outside ofg
Harare. Mr Marowa recognised one of his kidnappers - an agent of the CIO (Zimbabwe
Intellidence Organisation). He was handcuffed to a door handle and kicked until
he passed out - when he regained consciouness they piued a shapred bicylse spoke
into his rectum and up his uretha'. He didn't die but that didn't stop them
tryying again in the hospital wehislt he was recuprated - the assinination squad
disturbed by a nurse'
