The hero turned tyrant: Profile: Robert Mugabe

The Independent - London | March 9, 2002| | Copyright

Robert Mugabe, who fights the toughest election of his career this weekend, has wielded power in Zimbabwe for two decades. Once a hero to many in southern Africa, he has turned into a terrible embarrassment.

Even today, so many years later, I still remember the day in March 1980 after the results of the first all-inclusive elections in neighbouring Rhodesia - soon to be renamed Zimbabwe - had been announced. I was then at secondary school in what was then called Eastern Transvaal, now Mpumalanga, in South Africa. Our headmaster - who, in keeping with the apartheid provisions of South ...

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