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- Birth nameRobert Gabriel Mugabe
- Height5′ 8″ (1.73 m)
- Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF), from 1980 to 2017. Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a Marxist-Leninist, and as a socialist after the 1990s.
- IMDb mini biography by: Bonitao
- SpousesGrace Mugabe(August 17, 1996 - September 6, 2019) (his death, 3 children)Sally Mugabe(1961 - January 27, 1992) (her death, 1 child)
- Toothbrush moustache (covering the philtrum only).
- He was Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 18 April 1980 to 31 December 1987 and President from 31 December 1987 until he resigned in November 2017 following a bloodless army coup. He finished his leadership as the oldest head of state in the world at the age of 93.
- While many Western politicians accuse him of corruption, suppression of political opposition, mishandling of land reform and deteriorating human rights, many Africans consider him a hero of the fight for Independence.
- The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.
- Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.
- The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
- The land is ours. It's not European and we have taken it, we have given it to the rightful people... Those of white extraction who happen to be in the country and are farming are welcome to do so, but they must do so on the basis of equality.
- Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
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