Robert Mugabe

Full Name: Robert Gabriel Mugabe
Profession: President of Zimbabwe

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Biography: Mugabe was one of the leaders of the resistance against white minority rule in Rhodesia, eventually leading the ZANU-PF to victory and becoming the President of Zimbabwe in 1980 after the Lancaster House Agreement that ended the Rhodesian Bush War.

Despite initially calling for racial reconciliation, Mugabe crushed opposition, particularly the ZAPU-linked opposition in Matabeleland during the Gukurahundi. In 2000 he instituted a series of land reform policies which redistributed white-owned farmland to native Africans. This caused economic disaster, international condemnation and, in 2008 and 2009, an episode of hyperinflation that completely wiped out the value of the Zimbabwean dollar.

Under Mugabe's leadership Zimbabwe has become one of the most desperately poor countries in the world and he has been widely criticized for widespread human rights violations.

In November 2017, after a power struggle between factions in the ruling ZANU-PF party, a military coup occurred in Zimbabwe which led to Mugabe's resignation as president. He was succeeded by Emmerson Mnangagwa, who he had sacked weeks prior.

Born: February 21, 1924
Birthplace: Harare, Zimbabwe

Generation: Greatest Generation
Chinese Zodiac: Rat
Star Sign: Pisces

Died: September 6, 2019 (aged 95)