From liberator and hero to dictator and tyrant: Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe dies at 95
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- Опубліковано 5 гру 2024
- He held power for almost 40 years, starting with the joy of freedom from colonialism, but descending into bloodshed and political persecution. Now Zimbabwe's long-time leader Robert Mugabe has died in a hospital in Singapore at the age of 95.
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His successor, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, described him as an "icon of liberation", while there were tributes from leaders in South Africa and Kenya. But to his many critics, he was a megalomaniac, who impoverished and terrorised his own people...
He's a perfect example of why no one should have a lifetime reign over a country. Step down gracefully or get pushed out.
Laughs in rwanda: yeah Paul Kagame is a Lee kuan yew
@@riventv4927 LKY handed over when his government selected an appropriate successor. No one had to force him out
You're absolutely right! He couldn't even die in his own country. Yes, that's his own fault. I'm not saying that he's the only tyrant or he'll have more or less blood on his hands. However, he was evil and I'm glad he's gone!
More than ten years in charge of a jurisdiction is way too much! Heck, even ten years is too much. That's the American in me speaking. I'm not saying that this should be globalized, but at some point you need to give someone else a chance.
They are saying such nice things about a tyrant who destroyed his Country.
He was also (at one point) a hero who was instrumental in it's freedom. Though, I'm pretty sure his legacy will be seen more negatively, as it should.
Anyone saying nice things must be remembering the days when Southern Rhodesia became Zimbabwe. It WAS incredibly romantic. For a while.
shut up anglo imperialist pig.
He's viewed negatively because he didn't allow outside forces to control his country and rape it of its natural resources! Rest in peace my brotha!✊
Dumbest comment, he loosened the colonial stanglehold on zimbabwe
Zimbabwe was once called Rhodesia... and Rhodesia was called the bread basket of Africa. From bread basket to poverty and famine... all under Mugambe’s rule...
Isnt the chinese building in zimbabwe now? Rather odd to kick the agriculture out and bring the military of another power hungry country in.
Yeah but not allowed to own farms . Only rent it and not ruling and oppressing the people.
@@letsunite8164 Glad you have high hopes in a nation who has and still is conquering more land than anyone else has. 2020 they will absorb another 'nation' by force.
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And you believe that a state that would ram local fishing boats and send Uygher muslims to internment camps simply because of the fact that they are muslim, are the good hearted saviours of occupied Rhodesia?
You don’t know the Belt and Road initiative dont you? It is a plan of the CCP to “help” poorer nations like Zimbabwe, to be able to get their resources and enter them into their sphere of influence. I live in a nation where China is rapidly encroaching upon our lands and Islands to the point where our own people joke about the fact that we are turning into a Autonomous province of china
When ideology is more impotant than logic.
So basically, if Sally Mugabe was still his wife, Zimbabwe wouldn't have experienced this evil, and Robert Mugabe would not have turned into a dictator.
Agree
Yes, how small things can change a country that can change the world
He should've left after about five years. Maybe 10 years, tops. He stayed way too long! To all countries in the world, you don't have to agree with me. However, please don't allow your federal leaders more than 10 years in power.
No he trash from the beginning
@@CROSSTATT Undoubtedly if he resigned then, he would've been remembered as one of the Greatest men in the Modern History of the African continent
Ian Smith was right about him.
Ian who?
@Cohen Davis Ian Smith never caused genocide.... never slaughter 20000 of his own people.... never shot down a plane and murdered the survivors....and on and on
@Cohen Davis civil war.... civil war what codswallop. He didnt like the dissent from Nkomo so he fired him and killed his people.... thats not civil war thats genocide. Mugabe should have been in the hague just Milosovic and the other murderers. Concerning Ian Smith there your statement holds water.... in war innocents die, but that is different to going out and slaughtering 20000 innocent people.
@Cohen Davis You trying to justify what mugabe did to his people would be like me trying to justify what adolf did to the jews
The story of Zimbabwe is a story that will make you loose faith in humanity.. not a story or a man to be honored
The leaders turned a blind eye. Kind of what is now happening in SA. After pushing this.
It was a long, steady, and memorable slide-if I recall his emergence right, it must be about sixty years, from savior to brutal fiend. Funny how power does that to people.
He was vile and destroyed Zimbabwe.
*Rhodesia
He is the best leader 👑 Africa has ever had
Bani Saho Sanctions came into effect AFTER the economy was destroyed and Mugabe started persecuting political opponents. He destroyed Zimbabwe’s agriculture industry along with the economy and bought support of the security services by printing money which led to hyperinflation. Those are the facts
@Bani Saho he commited genocide against his own people but I guess that is normal with blacks and Africans.
@@millkmill You're a fascist if you believe that.
Many people are getting all defensive about this appalling man. We know that colonialism was wrong by today's moral standards but I'm willing to bet that Rodesia was a better place to live than Zimbabwe under Robert Mugabe. It shows how far Africa has to come if people regard him as an African hero. He's hardly propelled Zimbabwe into an affluent, advanced and peaceful land. Let's be honest he ruined the place.
So you prefer the native of zimbabwe remained as slaves on their own land?
@@homanism6438 they weren’t slaves in Rhodesia
@@homanism6438 He doesn’t mean that.
He is saying that colonialism and imperialism isn’t great. Freeing Zimbabwe was a good thing, but Robert Mugabe and his policies messed everything up. Zimbabwe could of been a great nation but it’s a terrible place to live
“ colonialism was wrong by today’s moral standards” 😂
Wow!
Imagine if the only thing you did with your life was become a dictator and cause generations to go hungry . How proud would you be ?
Derek Mckeown he's talking about Mugabe .. Not Boris ..
Christian McCann there’s mass starving in the UK?
@@willymeaux starving for free money
I am talking about Mugabe.
@@willymeaux There mass starving in Africa? Stop listening to Sally Struthers
I would love to be a dictator for 37 years some guys have all the luck.
I wonder who speaks for all his victims he killed and oppressed in the past.
Thank you and all think he is so 'great'. EVIL, VILE MAN.
Exactly. Some people act like all Africans love him. That's just not true.
Long live Rhodesia
Long Live Zimbabwe ✊🏿❤🇿🇼
Yaw Zimbabwe is a failed Marxist state ruled under a one party dictatorship. The basket case of Africa.
@@monarchist1838 Rhodesians never die!
Does this mean all the asylum seekers can now go home
I hope cause there's so many of them in South Africa.... we wish they could go home
What an evil man he was. I absolutely hate him
I think he should've been tormented. He was a big phony and he wasn't for blacks. He only cared for himself.
And some people call him a hero .... that I don't understand .. I also think he was evil
@@CROSSTATT true
@@reabetsweimanmoabi7911 definitely I also don't understand why some people thought he was a hero
Indeed Mugabe destroyed his own legacy and cannot be placed on same pedestal as Nelson Mandela.
absolute power corrupts- even good people.
DAVID AGYEMAN PREMPEH Abubekr Mugabe gave us what he promised us,mandela compromised the revolution
Mugabe was not a sellout.
@@thulidlamini6001 burning people alive with fuel soaked tires tied around their neck and setting off bombs in crowded areas is compromising???
@@georgemoore8832 This was Sharpeville Massacre before came with consequences, white people came with dehumanization of black people in their own land, they came with pass laws, they came with segregation, suffering and Bantu education. This old South Africa may look good on the surface, but we know exactly what was happening during those times.
I guess you preferred when there were different toilets, beaches, bus stops, seats and park benches for black and white peoples and the black people were called kaffirs and you call yourself Europeans, tortured and dehumanized.
These past questions came with consequences. You can’t ask about those questions without talking about the pain and grief your people brought with them. You can’t ask about this and not mention blacks people were brutally murdered when they peacefully protested against DomPass laws on the 21 of March 1960, this was called the Sharpeville Massacre. You cant ask about these questions and not mentions that on the 16th of June 1976 likes of Hector Pieterson and up to 700 other students were killed for protesting against Having Afrikaans (the oppressors language) as a medium of instruction in our local schools. This was called the Soweto uprising.
Is South Africa In good place right now? no! Am I happy with the way things are going right now? no! Do Condone the crime, the corrupt government and officials? No! But would I rather things go back to the apartheid era? NO!
You clearly preferred when white people were privileged and blacks people were garden boys and domestic workers, if this old south Africa is what you preferred. It’s your youtube and you have every right to post what you want to ask, I don’t know you understand how insensitive and ignorant some of the things you ask about the past of South Africa. The other day white people wanted Robben Island to be reopened and today you ask this, we clearly different views about this era, what it represented and the pain and suffering it has left us with.
I saw many unknown people being killed next to our homesteads by Boers. These unknown people grave are still there and more country wide. The apartheid government killed more people.
www.thoughtco.com/history-sharpeville-massacre-43422
Rhodesia > Zimbabwe
SuperStriker7US did Rhodesian army massacre 20,000 in Matabele land? Did Rhodesia have the mass unemployment and inflation that Zimbabwe did?
I didn't realize this guy was dead, awesome to hear.
He was never a hero, he was always a pos.
Yes, thank you abcd. He was never a hero. He was a socialist thug from day one. People forget too, he did not liberate his country from white minority rule. He usurped power from the democratically elected black majority government of Abel Muzorewa, under an Internal Settlement that black and white alike found tolerable.
Are you therefore acknowledging that Mugabe made you poor?
@@paullambert8701 nope but western imperialism who stifled the economy of Zimbabwe with sanctions.
@@paullambert8701 I'm more awake than you Bro. You are being fed with western media propaganda. Do your own research and stop being lazy watching western media propaganda news.
Yes or no, bro?
the devil has a dinner partner tonight
Hitler, Stalin etc, will form a guard of honour.
@@hobbyable1 and churchill...
@@hobbyable1 with pol pot and gengis khan playing the brass band
@@davidenko2468 And on the trombone.......................Muammar Gaddafi.
The Zimbabwe military ousted him and after that payed homage on his tomb... What a joke...
I agree. Let's oust him and then glorify him?!
Africa is poor because of people like Robert Mugabe not because of colonialism. South Korea was also a victim of colonialism, Japanese colonialism. South Korea pursued different policies after independence to Africa. That is why South Korea is wealth and Africa is poor.
@Ewan Smith yup make it about race.
@Brad Smith read some history you fucking idiot. Countries like South Korea and Japan were literally propped up by billions of American dollars because they represented strong geopolitical interests to the United States
Africans first to do list should be revenge against their colonialists they fight against each other why not turn that anger where it belongs
@@meadRL it is about race, whites should not be in positions of power or authority in africa (economically and politically), it is a conflict of interest for the same reasons that they will never hold those positions in asian countries.
while they evaded the fate of the native americans/austrailia , they did not achieve the fates of India/china/japan, and are in a sort of limbo where if they don't sieze economic power, they will forever be economically subservient to europeans (i mean really look at nambia, germans murdeded some 11 million natives but still basically run the country)
@Ewan Smith
He's pointing out that your assumption was that my comment had something to do with race. When there is no evidence to suggest it had anything to do with race.
My comment has nothing to do with race.
He knows what my comment is referencing, you give of the impression that you dont.
My comment is a synopsis of a wider economic discussion.
For a quick case study to make a point.
The populations of The Chinese mainland, Hong Kong and Taiwan are all predominantly racially Han Chinese. Each jurisdiction has a different GDP per capita, different standard of living, legal system, governmental system, trade policy, foreign investment policy, some have floating currency, some have fixed exchange rates and so on.
Its quite evident why some jurisdiction are more successful than others, when you look at the policys pursued by each jurisdiction.
RHODESIANS NEVER DIE
NEO RHODESIA SOON BROTHERS
Welcome too the Blackman's land ,you filthy pink devil
@@dudeman5234 I'm not even white and I'd say you're full of racist pigshit.
Unable to swim, a scorpion asks a frog to carry him across a rising river.
The frog worries that the scorpion could sting him. The scorpion argues that if he stung the frog, the frog would sink and the scorpion would drown as well.
Convinced, the frog agrees and lets the scorpion climb on his back. Halfway across the river, the scorpion does in fact sting the frog, dooming them both.
“But why?” asks the frog.
“It’s just my nature,” says the scorpion.
an he left 2 billion to his wife an children.can somebody plz tell us what is the price of a roasted rat in zimbabwe?
Shame on Ramophosa and other African 'leaders' gushing praise on this evil dictator.
He was never a “hero” or “liberator” all he did was destroy a young burgeoning nation before it could grow into a true power. Rhodesia lives on in the hearts, and minds of smart people who see that colonialism is good.
It’s only good for the colonizers, no so much the people living in the colony.
@@vincentgiasullo It’s good for literally everyone living in the country.
@@vincentgiasullo Look at India before, during and after colonial rule.
@@NemeczeK101 valid, my views have changed quite a bit since three years ago
@@robertsmalls2293 valid, my views have changed quite a bit since three years ago
Rhodesians Never Die!
Wilf is an honourable gentleman, thank you for telling your story.
Here’s the story of Rhodesia, a land both fair and great
New Zealand PM Robert Muldoon caused international distress in 1981 while facing off against Mugabe over sporting sanctions (SA 'Springboks' Vs NZ), when he remarking that Mugabe's been "fighting for years, running around shooting people". [Mugabe] "He's got a closed mind," Mr Muldoon said at the time. "I suppose when you have been in
the jungle for a few years shooting people, you cannot understand."
Rhodesia better under Smith!
Ian Smith was racist, but Mugabe was also racist but also genocidal and a destroyer of his economy.
In fact, a good, balanced political system is the best protection that strong men can have to prevent themselves from being poisoned by power. And a good protection for the common people as well.
That clip where he is shouting at someone and his aides are restraining him , Ashh, what a disgrace to Zimbabwe. And you call that a statesmen 🤪🤪 can’t control his temper towards journalists in public
As if he is brawling in a pub . Kutinyadzisa
Free Rhodesia
Mugabe, a cruel leader indeed. What his 5th Brigade did in Matabeleland slaughtered his own people.
Horrible man!!!
Mugabe: Sponsored by Adidas 9:00
🤣🤣
He didn't turn bad, he was ALWAYS the evil villain from the very beginning. He destroyed Rhodesia and turned it in to the trashcan that is Zimbabwe.
Mhata yako iwe
Interesting clip- I grew up in Zimbabwe.
Me too 😇
What was it like?
The Ceaucescu of Zimbabwe!
For the oppressed he was liberator. For the Opressor he was a tyrant. That's how it goes.
or he was a liberator who became a tyrant
bluescluessuperagent when your enemies cant get the better of you you are called a tyrant. But Robert ROCK STONE mugabe was a firm rock. Intellegent too.
@@jimmyandtheresurrection7247 firm rock? I guess. He seems pretty indifferent to his people's suffering.
Dude literally called himself the modern Hitler once.
bluescluessuperagent it was and still is the sanctions thats causing the people to suffer. You cant cut off my legs and then tell me to run. But alas, the whole world is catching on to their tricks. Zimbabwe and Africa shall arise like the Phoenix out of the ruined. And Robert Mugabe will be remembered as one of the main stalwarts of our victory. I dont wait for the Opressor to recommend black heroes. I'm the master of my own thinking.
@@jimmyandtheresurrection7247 name 1 sanction
you say sanctions are what caused the massive decline
than surely you must at least know what the sanctions are
also what year did Mugabe take power?
and what year did the sanctions start?
If the Opressor had kept their word things would have not gotten out of hand.
Jimmy C (USA Pres during 1978-80) tried a quick hand-over from WR to All Total One-Vote Black Rule.
unbalanced reporting. HE IS A TRUE PANAFRICANIST. HE GAVE US OUR LAND.
Then why the food shortages? Why overthrow farmers who can farm and give the land to people who can't? Surely that hurts everyone.
One of the greatests leaders of the world... he turned every habitant of his country into a billionaire.
Rhodesians never die!
Went to Singapore in business class came back as cargo...such is life
sbonga dlamini 😂😂😂
Mugabe was old before his time has this guy ever been young?
Why did bob wear western clothes, give himself a bantu name or use a donkey cart to move around, it's easy to use the white man's inventions and then blame them for all that went wrong with his country?
The Zimbabwean Stalin. What a horrible man.
Shame he died. I hear dianne Abbott and David lammy we’re preparing to nominate him to take over corbyn as well 🤪
the father of gukurahundi is dead. All Ndebele celebrate.
I am no racial supremacist at all just to clarify. You shouldn't be kicking out anyone base on race they are especially when they were born anywhere. It's very irrational and unwise to blame an entire race for what individuals had done in the past either. Like you can't blame all black people for what groups like the LRA had done, so why blame all white people for what the KKK had done? Punish the individual not an entire race. No one is perfect either. People would have to work together in life regardless of their race in this case.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that Robert destroyed Cecil Rhode's dream.
Rest in peace, sir.
zimbabwe must be given back to the white rhodesia Africans.
Bani Saho - yeah, I am sure they felt so oppressed while eating well and receiving a fair wage
Hm...no.
@@sirhumphreyappleby8399 whites in Zimbabwe know their place ,with their heads on the bottom of the Blackman's boots lol lol lol .
Lol lol lol
Self-serving narcissist to the N-th degree. Admired by those who wished they could steal as much as he did from a nation and still get away with it.
Rhodesia was such a pristine modern and a beautiful country. Mugabe for me was simply a typical African leader.
Sooo. When was the "hero" part?
The beginning I guess
He wasn't the best of leaders but imagine what would've happened if Britain didn't track back from the Lancaster agreement.
tindo tare Before they back- tracked the rot was already setting in . Don’t pretend to be forgetful
But a least they have the land !
..and what are they doing with the land??
Mugabe was an unconquered steel warrior. It doesn't matter what channel four say. History already absorbed him
An unconquered steel warrior? From what I've seen he was a Marxist radical who ruined the economy, destroyed the farming industry and killed his political opponents ( not to mention thousands of innocents). I feel sorry for the Zimbabwean people
@@Jools1478 economy was ruined by sanctions and embargo via export route to Maputo.
Devilish work by the the British and US government
Oh please. The farms were ruined. The money devalued. I really don't understand this unwaivering defence of tyrants like this. I can only assume it's anti-white racism. Well don't worry Britain will keep sending aid to this failing nation (£49 million this year) to help the starving poor. Thanks Mugabe. Good job
You are a psychiatric patient
How many times have we seen this?
One day the truth will be told, can a black man get justice in a racial society? This man was giving back the land has been stolen and rhey hate him for that so rhey blacklist him they will never said that but ONE DAY the will be told in a balance way he wasn't perfect
This sounds very propaganda-ish.
Lebogang Manthoadi except it was all true....
Nobody felt hope through the words of Lord Sailsbury especially the Faulkland Islanders!
Another damn fool gone. Now he is reconciled with the earth, his legacy forever destroyed by his tyranny.
Compare him to Tony Blair and George Bush..... He is better
@Magpie I will still prefer him to this murderers Tony Blair and Bush.. At least Mugabe didn't invade other countries with fake evidence and kill innocent civilians..
Maybe you haven't watched the apology of Tony Blair.. He is worse than the Devil.Mugabe didn't want the west to have control over his country resources....
Magpie today World facing lot of defense problems because tony and bush’s foolish decision
Still the point is Blair and Bush did not steal from and destroy their own countries and leave their people without decent services , hence people still flock to their countries for a better life.
Not even close
No, he isn't. The U.K. and the U.S. are multicultural nations which many people flock to. I can't say the same about Zimbabwe. It was destroyed by the dictator from within.
Good Riddance
RIP 🙏 Lion of Africa
Know that all are one, and only a lasting structure will benefit humanity.
A damn shame what he ordered to happen to, not only his own innocent Zimbabweans, but the white farmers who actually boosted the country and employed many black Zimbabweans. Hopefully South Africa does not go the same way, but it's looking bleak for both countries in 2019 and onwards. We must all learn to live in harmony and continue to fight against all forms of hatred.
Hedylogos Two words Africa African
Magabi was rapped under the colonial rule when he was a liberation leader fighting for his countries freedoms from western rule over his people in the whole region not just rhodisha/Zimbabwe
“Liberator and hero” HA
He is.. you whites took away what we have and got brainwashed by left and right media calling other countries terrorist for not handing our resource like you did to Afghan and iraq. When we say no, we mean it. Yet your dumb leaders went out of their way to cause a scene then blames them. We blacks aren't your allies anymore.
@@FragmenterX1 no he's not
You'd swear they were talking about a saint!
the country is destroyed
What a despicable human being. Sadly enough, this seems to be a typical African story: Hero turned president turned dictator, all hope and potential squandered by grotesque ineptness and a weirdly childish outlook on the world.
He will always be a HERO too millions of black people all around the world fact
I hope society learns from this, things can become much worse than what you had before if you want radical political change.
A white man telling African story is like a lion narrating the sweetness of grass.
I'm a white man born and bred in Africa. I most likely know more about Africa's "stories" than you do. Where do you live?
Can you ever unsee the world as racist? You seem blinded by it.
At last the world is one more corrupt dictator less. He did one thing very good. He ran the once "Breadbasket of Africa" Rhodesia into the ground and now thousands are suffering from hunger poverty and civil war. Good one Mc AAP. South Africa slowly but surely following the same path.
We loved him no one should tell us how to celebrate our leaders not white or pink we wish more Mugabe in Africa God bless Malela
@@wisemankhuzwayo9079 no i don't
Look at the BBC and Channel 4 news stumbling over themselfs to try and improve the image of Mugabe. The kind of soft language and terms they use would never fly for anyone else.
Of course at the pristine pace of the worldwide market may your business of leaders believe in your people. I pray for your blessings. May you be the leading voice of progressing past the past. May you not be the leaders that lead in the actions of elsewhere. May you be leaders that lead in your own actions.
So what I get is that he’s a Democrat.
Mugabe is our Hero. Fight British Army and British settler. The only fight he lost. He did NOT know our to fight British economies sanction. This is the only fight he left for us. We must learn and trade between African countries.
True
He was not a cruel dictator,he was an African Liberator.
Your Problem is that you dont want to see Africans liberated.
ah yes ruining your country's economy, murdering thousands of your own people and starving the rest is Liberation
He liberated thousands of Ndebele of their lives.
The biggest problem Africa is corruption. While there are perfectly legitimate complaints and anger about what colonialism did, especially what the Belgians did in the Congo, colonialism Is over and gone, and Africans should look to the future and not the past. Solving the corruption problem is essential if Africa is ever to lift itself up from poverty. One example is the mineral rich Congo which should be one of the wealthiest nations on Earth but instead is one of the poorest due to the appalling corruption of its leaders.
Another indictment of African leaders is that although Mugabe was responsible for thousands of deaths in Matabele land in the early 80s - maybe as many as twenty thousand - he was by no means the worst African leader. We should all remember Idi Amin of Uganda who was responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths, and Amin was only one of many leaders on the continent responsible for crimes against their people.
Two words. Ian Smith. Look him up and listen to what he said
Being on top must feel so great you'd do anything to stay there
No one lives forever- even dictators - S
The same fate will befall Museveni too. We are patiently waiting
I like how they saying that the british "gave up" in the 1980's, it was in the late 50's that Britain wanted to give independence to Zimbabwe, but it was the white minority under Ian lee that refused to give majority rule, so Britain refused to give Zimbabwe back until black majority rule
the great betrayal .... read it. The Brits sold out the Rhodesians
An African tyrant? Come now....
We must do something soon to remove this current government
Mugabe really liberated Zimbabwe from British colonizers
He also caused millions of black Zimbabweans to leave the country of their birth.
We thank the newsmedia and Nation of Zimbabwe (former Rhodesia) for a look into the past few decades from liberation to new Nation formation, and the critical role that Mugabe held as an African leader to the above described devastation and tyranny.
We in the US had a decade of Africa and a two term first "African American" US President and we are just beginning to understand our relationships and those of the coming generations in the world.
Condolences to his family, and our first view of the Heroes' Place where he ill be laid to rest with his first wife and First Lady of Zimbabwe.
Julie Ann Racino, ASPA, International Chapter, 2019
Mugabe is a hero
He starved the country with his Marxist ideas to overthrow the farmers from their land. He murdered thousands. He wrecked the economy. In what way is he a hero? Do tell.
AS A ZIMBABWEAN I LOVE HIM FOR ALL THE GOOD HE DID the rest is history RIP OUR HERO
lillian mhandu hero? What have you actually been smoking? It must be good...
@@olivermbawasi3800 shut up u know nothing about the history of my country so shut up kambudzi kemunhu
@@LillianMhandu he did nothing for your country .... Zimbabwe is so poor much worse than when BOB got into power
Thank God.
That's what Caucasian want you to believe, to believe that your leader was evil. I might dispute Mugabe's longevity as president but I respect his ideas about Zimbabwe's independence
How independent are you when you are ruled by a tyrannical dictator ?