Robert Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe since the country's independence a quarter-century ago.
* Robert Mugabe Mugabe redirects here.
For other uses, see Mugabe (disambiguation).
Robert Gabriel Mugabe KCB (born on February 21, 1924) is the President of Zimbabwe.[1] He has been the head of government in Zimbabwe since 1980, first as Prime Minister[2] has ruled Zimbabwe since the country's
independence a quarter-century ago. During those years, Zimbabwe has
gone from being the breadbasket of southern Africa - This article concerns the region in Africa. For the present-day country in this region, see South Africa; for the former country, see South African Republic.
Southern Africa to being a basket
case basket case Train wreck Vox populi A derogatory term for a Pt with a dread disease or a terminal illness; a person to be pitied begging for handouts from international aid agencies. This terrible
decline might have something to do with Mugabe's policy of taking
land from successful white farmers and giving it to his friends and
relatives. As a matter of fact, Mugabe recently admitted that 56 percent
of the "liberated" land is no longer being cultivated. Of
course, Cap'n Bob knows whom to blame. After Condoleezza Rice
called Zimbabwe an "outpost of tyranny," back in January, our
Bobby said that the secretary of state, born of slave ancestry an·ces·try
n. pl. an·ces·tries
1. Ancestral descent or lineage.
2. Ancestors considered as a group.
[Middle English auncestrie, alteration (influenced by , should
know that the white man is not a friend. Why anybody, white or black,
would want to be friends with a thuggish nation-wrecker like Mugabe is a
question he did not explore.
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