Posted on 09/06/2019 7:36:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Zimbabwe's preening socialist strongman, Robert Mugabe, a man who left his once prosperous country a hellhole, is gone, and his end didn't come soon enough. He went out as one of the world's worst curses against humanity.
Here's the New York Times announcement:
Robert Mugabe, the first prime minister and later president of independent Zimbabwe, who traded the mantle of liberator for the armor of a tyrant and presided over the decline of one of Africa's most prosperous lands, died on Friday. He was 95.
The death was announced by his successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
"It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe's founding father and former President, Cde Robert Mugabe," he wrote on Twitter on Friday, using the abbreviation for comrade. "Mugabe was an icon of liberation, a pan-Africanist who dedicated his life to the emancipation and empowerment of his people. His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten."
A truly good summary of his life and times appears in the London Telegraph's obituary of the man this morning:
Robert Mugabe, the former president of Zimbabwe who has died aged 95, began his 37 years in power as a Nobel Peace Prize nominee credited with creating Africa's most successful multiracial state.
By the time he was ousted in November 2017 his repressive determination to remain in charge had driven the country into ruin and ensured his place as an international pariah, while the determination of his widely despised second wife, Grace, to succeed him had threatened to plunge the country into civil war and led to a military intervention.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
A role model for the Marxist Democrats.
Good thing Trump is POTUS. Obama would have lowered the flags to half staff and declared a 30 day mourning period!................
Maybe I should spend my 5B Zimbabwe note while I can? A candy bar would do, but I only have 5B.
I had a bacon and egg burrito this morning.
As the old expression would go, “Robert Mugabe is now ‘punchin’ chunks’” (shoveling coal into blast furnaces, implied ‘in Hell’.)
When the bastard declared that the flags be flown at half-mast for the killer of South Africa, I took my flag down and did not display it until the bastard african was no longer in office.
You should have flown it upside down.................
His sort of land "reform" has been a major Marxian trope since old Karl started his scribble-fest. Knowingly committing to subsistence farming and then wondering where the crops that used to be for sale in the city went is a shining monument to human stupidity, and it persists: they're trying to raise pigs and chickens on apartment balconies in Caracas even now. With nothing to feed them on. And digging wells in the back yard for contaminated water because nothing's coming out of the pipes. Zimbabwe's been there but people were more interested in making excuses for them than in admitting what went wrong.
Robert Mugabe was a racist pure and simple
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