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15 THINGS YOU DON’T KNOW ABOUT ROBERT GABRIEL MUGABE
Mugabe was an icon of liberation, a pan- Africanist who dedicated his life to the emancipation and empowerment of his people.
Mugabe was hospitalized in Singapore for months for an undisclosed ailment. Officials said that he was being treated for cataract which was later denied by a private media reports that he had prostate cancer.
Ekohotblog has gathered many things you do not know about Mugabe’s life time.
1. Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21 February,1924 at kutama mission village in southern Rhodesia’s Zvimba district by a carpenter father Gabriel Matibiri and a bona taught Christian Mother.
2. Mugabe had his education at kutama college and the university of fort hare.
3.Mugabe got married to Sally hayfron who gave birth to Michael Nhamodzenyika Mugabe on 27 September 1963.
4.Robert Mugabe worked as a school teacher in southern Rhodesia Northern Rhodesia and Ghana.
5.Mugabe joined a demonstration of 7,000 people who planned to march from Highfield to the prime minister’s office in Salisbury and imprisoned by Rhodesian government in 1964.
6.In 1980, he won post independence elections.
7.He ruled the country for 37 years from independence in 1980.
8.He lost his only son Michael Nhamodzanyika died on 26 December, 1966 from cerebral malaria in Ghana while Mugabe was in prison.
9.Mugabe remarried after hayfron’s death in 1992,Mugabe and Grace Marafu his secretary got married in a large Catholic wedding ceremony in August 1996.
10.In 1988,Grace Mugabe gave birth to Bona and in 1990 a son,Robert.
11.In 2000,he lost referendum, pro Mugabe militia invaded white owned farms and attack opposition supporters.
12.In 2009 amid economic collapse, he sworn in Tsvangirai as prime minister who served in uneasy government of national unity for four years.
13.In 2017,Mugabe sacked a long time ally,vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa paving way for his wife grace to succeed him.
14.In 2017,Army intervened and forced Mugabe to step down.
15.Mugabe died on 6th September, 2019.
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