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Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 7:53 pm
by 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.
Re: Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 8:17 pm
by BridgeConsoleMasher
A good man. He will be missed.
Re: Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95
Posted: Fri Sep 06, 2019 9:26 pm
by Mecha82
May he rest in peace.
Re: Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 12:55 pm
by clearspira
Ding dong the supervillain is dead.
Re: Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 1:43 pm
by ProfessorDetective
Hate to sound ignorant, but... Who?
Re: Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 2:11 pm
by Steve
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.
Re: Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 2:17 pm
by 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).
Re: Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 2:56 pm
by ProfessorDetective
Steve wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 2:11 pm
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.
Re: Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 3:47 pm
by BridgeConsoleMasher
Steve wrote: ↑Sat Sep 07, 2019 2:11 pm
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.
Re: Robert Mugabe Dies Aged 95
Posted: Sat Sep 07, 2019 4:03 pm
by 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.