Robert Mugabe
1924 – 2019 Zimbabwean Independence leader, Prime Minister and President of Zimbabwe
Led Zimbabwe's independence, then ruled it for nearly four decades.
- Religion
- Roman Catholic
- Affiliations
- ZANU, ZANU-PF
Robert Mugabe led ZANU's guerrilla struggle against white-minority rule in Rhodesia and became Zimbabwe's leader at independence in 1980. Early praise for reconciliation and education gave way to condemnation over the Gukurahundi massacres, violent land seizures, economic collapse, and rigged elections. He was forced out by his own party and the military in 2017 after 37 years in power.
In the timeline
- 1979 The Lancaster House Conference on Rhodesia opens mentioned
- 1980 Independence of Zimbabwe mentioned
- 1980 Zimbabwe becomes independent mentioned
- 1980 Zimbabwe independence after the Rhodesian war mentioned
- 1980 Elections and independence as Zimbabwe mentioned
- 1998 Angola, Zimbabwe, and Namibia intervene for Kinshasa mentioned