The hottest topic on the International scene has been the stand-off in Zimbabwe as the Military took control of the government and placing its nonagerian President, Robert Mugabe under house arrest.
Though the military who struck on Tuesday, November 14, denied calling it a coup, the African Union has said the crisis has the markings of one.
A video recently surfaced of Mugabe back in 1980, boasting that a coup could never happen.
According to reports, what triggered military intervention was his dismissal of Emerson Mnangagw nicknamed ‘the Crocodile’ as Vice-President with the hope of installing his wife, Grace Mugabe in his place when he eventually vacates office.
This apparently was not well received by the military who are loyal to ‘the Crocodile,’ as Major General Constantino Chiwenga challenged Mugabe’s decision last Monday, November 13.
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As more continues to unravel, below is a profile of Mugabe, the man in the eye of the storm;
1.) Mugabe nicknamed ‘Uncle Bob’ was born on February 21, 1924, near Kutama, northeast of Salisbury (now Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe), in what was then Rhodesia.
2.) The former school teacher, with seven university degrees, first came to prominence after waging a bloody guerrilla war against the white colonial rulers who jailed him for 10 years over a “subversive speech” he made in 1964.
3.) Soon after his release from jail in 1974, he caused a great shift in the then Rhodesian politics, riding a wave of popular outrage against the racist colonial rulers.
4.) Then married to Ghanaian Sally Hayfron, who died of a kidney disease in 1992, he crossed the border to neighbouring Mozambique to launch a protracted guerrilla war for independence.
5.) He returned to Rhodesia in 1979 and became prime minister in 1980 of the newly independent country renamed Zimbabwe.
6.) Mugabe assumed the presidency in 1987, with the prime minister role being abolished.
7.) He married his current wife and Zimbabwe’s First Lady, Grace Mugabe, in 1996.
8.) His biggest achievement is probably his empowerment of black Zimbabweans while his failure was a land reform policy that arguably marked the beginning of the downfall of the country.
9.) Mugabe was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 1994 but he was stripped of it in 208, over his abuse of human rights and “abject disregard” for democracy.
10.) Mugabe had two sons and one daughter with Grace, while his first marriage produced one son who died.
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