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Robert Mugabe
President of Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe, Rest of Africa
Robert Gabriel Mugabe
Birth Details:
Date of Birth: 21-02-1924 Place of Birth: Kutama Mission, Zvimba
In Brief
Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the current President of Zimbabwe, under the ruling party ZANU PF. One of the leader of the liberation movements against white-minority rule, he was elected into power as the head of government since 1980, as Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987, and as the first executive head of state since 1987. An agreement for a power-sharing government was reached in September 2008, in which Mugabe would remain president but would cede some power to Morgan Tsvangirai Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), who would become prime minister. The power-sharing government was implemented in February 2009.
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Current Position(s)
- Chairman - G15 Group of Countries
- (1995 - present)
- Chairman - Frontline States
- (1992 - present)
- President - Zimbabwe
- (1987 - present)
- Chairman - 101 Strong Non-Aligned Movement
- (1986 - present)
- President - Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)
- (1977 - present)
Previous Position(s)
- Chairman - Organisation of African Unity, South Africa
- (1997 - 1998)
- First Chairman - SADC Organisation on Defence, Politics and Security
- (1996 - 2001)
- Chairman - World Solar Commission, South Africa
- (1995 - 2005)
- Chairman - CHOGM
- (1991 - 1994)
- Prime Minister - Zimbabwe
- (1980 - 1987)
- Minister - Defence and Public Service
- (1980 - 1984)
- Secretary General - ZANU
- (1963 - 1963)
- Co-Founder - Zimbabwe African People's Union
- (1961 - ---)
- Secretary General - Zimbabwe African National Union
- (1961 - 1963)
- Lecturer - St Mary's Teacher Training College, Takoradi, Ghana
- (1958 - 1960)
- Lecturer - Chalimbana Teacher Training College , Zambia
- (1955 - 1958)
- Teacher - Various schools in Zimbabwe
- (1952 - 1955)
- Teacher - Various schools in Zimbabwe
- (1942 - 1949)
- Editor - The Democratic Voice (later renamed The People's Voice), NDP's mouthpiece
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- First Secretary - Zimbabwe African National Union Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)
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Higher Education
- Honorary degree -
- Honorary Doctor of Civil Law
- Honorary degree -
- Honorary Technical Doctorate
- Honorary degree - University of Africa
- Honorary Doctor of Literature/Letters
- Honorary degree -
- Honorary Technical Doctorate
- Honorary degree - University of Fort Hare
- Honorary Doctor of Commerce
- Honorary degree - University of Solusi
- Honorary Doctor of Laws
- Honorary degree -
- Honorary Doctor of Literature and Philosophy
- Honorary degree - University of Moscow
- Honorary Doctor of Laws
- Honorary degree - College of St Augustines
- Honorary Doctor of Laws
- Honorary degree - University of Morehouse
- Honorary Doctor of Laws
- Honorary degree - University of Michigan State, United States of America
- Honorary Doctor of Laws
- Honorary degree - University of Zimbabwe
- Honorary Doctor of Laws
- Honorary degree - University of Ahmadou Bello, Nigeria
- Honorary Doctor of Laws
- Degree - University of South Africa
- Bachelor of Administration
- Degree - University of South Africa
- Bachelor of Education
- Degree - University of South Africa
- Bachelor of Law
- Degree - University of South Africa
- Master of Laws
- Degree - University of South Africa
- Master of Science
- Degree - University of London - UOL
- Bachelor of Science
- Degree - University of Fort Hare
- Bachelor of Arts (1951)
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After a long civil war in Rhodesia, Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980, and in this history of Mugabes rule, the author chronicles how Mugabe has become ever more dictatorial, and seemingly less and less interested in the welfare of his people, for this riveting and tragic political story.
- Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe
- Author: Martin Meredith
- Publication Date: October 2007
- Pages: 259
Robert Mugabe came to power in Zimbabwe in 1980 after a long civil war in Rhodesia. The white minority government had become an international outcast after refusing to give in to the inevitability of black majority rule, and finally the defiant white Prime Minister Ian Smith was forced to step down. Initially admired as the leader of one of Africa's emerging nations, Mugabe encouraged Zimbabwe's economic and social development, promising reconciliation between blacks and whites. But as Martin Meredith shows in this history of Africa's most notorious dictator, from the beginning, Mugabe was sacrificing his purported ideals - and Zimbabwe's potential - to the goal of extending and cementing his autocratic leadership. Over time, Mugabe has become ever more despotic, and seemingly less interested in the welfare of his people, treating Zimbabwe's wealth and resources as spoils of war for his inner circle. In recent years, he has unleashed a reign of terror and corruption in his country. Like the Congo, Angola, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Liberia, Zimbabwe has been on a steady slide to disaster. In Mugabe , Martin Meredith tells the whole story in detail. As the 2008 elections approach the book, (first published in 2002), is now substantially revised to bring the story right up to date. A riveting and tragic political story, it is an essential text for understanding today's Africa.