Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95

[Jonathan101]

[url]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-49604152
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He was replaced years ago so doubt this will make much difference to Zimbabwe, but Mugabe is now gone.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

A good man. He will be missed.

[Mecha82]

May he rest in peace.

[clearspira]

Ding dong the supervillain is dead.

[ProfessorDetective]

Hate to sound ignorant, but... Who?

[Steve]

Hate to sound ignorant, but... Who?

Former leader of Zimbabwe, basically became dictator, committed policies that turned a food-exporting nation into a famine-stricken food-importer basketcase country that experienced Weimar-level runaway inflation a few times due to his shit leadership.

But he has a glow since he was one of the revolutionaries that fought Ian Smith's Rhodesian government and the white minority rule that the Rhodesians wanted to maintain, so he had anti-colonialist and freedom fighter credentials that for a while made it difficult to criticism him without being lambasted as an imperialist or racist or some combination thereof.

[Valdagast]

And for that reason he was idolized in Sweden long after he became a blood-stained dictator. The Swedish left is always ready to embrace dictators as long as they have the right credentials (not that the right is much better).

[ProfessorDetective]

Hate to sound ignorant, but... Who?

Former leader of Zimbabwe, basically became dictator, committed policies that turned a food-exporting nation into a famine-stricken food-importer basketcase country that experienced Weimar-level runaway inflation a few times due to his shit leadership.

But he has a glow since he was one of the revolutionaries that fought Ian Smith's Rhodesian government and the white minority rule that the Rhodesians wanted to maintain, so he had anti-colonialist and freedom fighter credentials that for a while made it difficult to criticism him without being lambasted as an imperialist or racist or some combination thereof.

Ah, the prime example of an African Warlord with a hint of Che Guevara. No big loss, really.

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Hate to sound ignorant, but... Who?

Former leader of Zimbabwe, basically became dictator, committed policies that turned a food-exporting nation into a famine-stricken food-importer basketcase country that experienced Weimar-level runaway inflation a few times due to his shit leadership.

But he has a glow since he was one of the revolutionaries that fought Ian Smith's Rhodesian government and the white minority rule that the Rhodesians wanted to maintain, so he had anti-colonialist and freedom fighter credentials that for a while made it difficult to criticism him without being lambasted as an imperialist or racist or some combination thereof.

A complicated figure, he was.

[Mecha82]

To be fair Africa would currently have need for some anti-Colonialists leaders considering what China (as in People's Republic of China and CCP) is doing there. They "One Road Initiative" is pretty much modern form of Colonialism.