Robert Mugabe has died

[Quicks]

So apparently his stay at the Gleneagles Hospital in Singapore cost Zimbabweans about R12000000. Or about R80500 per. day.

Disgusting

I do not think he knows how to counts, so it makes no difference to him or his followers

 

[Vox Populi Vox Dei]

A Sigh of Relief over the Death of a Brutal Left-Wing Dictator | National Review

Dictator Robert Mugabe; Howard Schultz calls it quits; the president wants to argue about Alabama; and the European Union’s behavior.

www.nationalreview.com

Robert Mugabe was — ah, what a delight it is to use the past tense — one of those demonic despots whose name and crimes ought to be commonly known. Yet somehow, he never quite caught the imagination of the Western press, even if he caught its attention. The average person walking down the street knows about the Kims in North Korea, Saddam Hussein, and Ayatollah Khamenei; but you had to be interested in foreign affairs to recognize the name Mugabe as a monster who deserved to be lined up alongside them in hell.

Some might argue Mugabe’s relative obscurity reflects a Western press that is uncomfortable with acknowledging the fact that a leftist anti-Colonialist revolutionary leader can turn out to be a bloodthirsty and brutal despot; some might argue his relative obscurity reflects a Western press that simply isn’t all that interested in Africa.

Earlier this year, John Fund offered a succinct summary of Mugabe’s catastrophic rule:

Robert Mugabe became the president of Zimbabwe in April 1980, back when Jimmy Carter was still president. Within two years he had deployed his infamous North Korea–trained Fifth Brigade against minority tribes in Matabeleland in a campaign of deliberate killing and starvation. The organization Genocide Watch estimated that 20,000 people were ultimately killed.
Mugabe would later launch an insane seizure of white-owned farms. That led to widespread food shortages and destructive hyperinflation that resulted in almost-worthless 100 trillion Zimbabwean dollar notes in circulation.
But henchmen from the ruling party, Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU), violently tamped down protests, and he ruled until November 2017, when a clique of his own generals worried that his wife would replace him overthrew the 94-year-old dictator in a coup. Since then, former minister of defense and current president Emmerson Mnangagwa has proclaimed that his country is “open for business,” when in reality the regime’s slogan should be “The new boss is just like the old boss.”

Just how similar are Zimbabwe’s new rulers? This summer Jay Nordlinger caught up with Evan Mawarire — a pastor and democracy leader from Zimbabwe:

The current regime in Zimbabwe is just as bad as Mugabe’s. In fact, it is a continuation of it. As Pastor Evan says, Mugabe is gone but the Mugabe system remains.
When the old man fell, there was euphoria in the streets, Evan says. People of all ages and tribes rejoiced. There had not been such unity since independence, says Evan. But it quickly turned to ash.
As before, democracy leaders and protesters were arrested (Evan among them). Their wives and daughters were raped. The men were beaten in prison. Evan wound up in the very same cell, incidentally — not just the same prison but the same cell.

Perhaps the Western world never paid much attention to Mugabe because Zimbabwe is far away and most Americans couldn’t find it on a map. It has little strategic geopolitical value. Back in 2017, Helen Andrews wrote a long piece for NRO observing that he reflected and greatly exacerbated his country’s problems, but he didn’t invent them. She also tackled the question of how things could have turned out differently, and ended up rejected a lot of the easy answers. These questions that arise are relevant to places much closer to home:

The most inviting answer to the question of what should have been done differently, which beckons like an oasis in the desert, is to blame the colonial regime. If only Rhodesia had been governed better, its oppressed native population would not have presented such an easy foothold to Marxist guerrillas. Alas, this particular oasis is a mirage — not because conditions for Africans were so splendid under Ian Smith and his predecessors, but because no amount of peace, prosperity, and good government has ever been a prophylactic against violent nationalism when other factors have made it an advantageous ideology to embrace. If nationalism were a function of oppression, there would have been a Mau Mau revolt in Hungary under the Soviets and rather less of one there under the Hapsburgs. Nationalism, like a contagious disease, does not discriminate.

 

[skeptic_SA]

a national hero ?
i guess hitler was also considered a national hero at some point in time


??
i cant help but wonder if our insolvent national carrier or air force has been tasked to bring back the carcass of africa's genocidal despot

They will probably bring him back on their flagship national carrier. Oh wait...

 

[Grant]

They will probably bring him back on their flagship national carrier. Oh wait...

i doubt there would be enough space in the cargo hold for dis-grace's shopping, along with that of the litter of her loins

 

[TysonRoux]

All these African despots, dictators, necklace murderers, etc. magically becomes heroes, angels, saints, 'gallant leader of Pan-Africanism' (whatever that means), ......CR, did you have to stoop that low.

 

[TysonRoux]

LOL

Mugabe’s family clashes with Mnangagwa over plans for state funeral

Zimbabwe’s liberator turned dictator is proving as troublesome to the coup leaders in death as he was in life

www.theguardian.com

Though much of Mugabe’s 37 years in power was marked by violence, economic mismanagement and corruption, the former guerrilla fighter is still revered as a liberation leader.

They spelt that wrong.

Liars – Blog No. 60

Robert Mugabe is a liar. He is an example of how not to be, as a leader. That he has already celebrated a victory – a landslide victory – demonstrates his corruption. He cannot be tr…

cjbirch.com

 

[TysonRoux]

Has the body of former President Robert Mugabe left Singapore?

Mugabe was initially expected to arrive in South Africa early on Saturday before flying on to Zimbabwe. But there was still no word that the body had left Singapore.

ewn.co.za

"he was their liberator from white colonial rule " - BWHAHAHAHAHAHA, that turned out so fantastic.

 

[wbot]

CR, did you have to stoop that low.

It's no surprise really. Ramaphosa is a direct imitation of Mugabe. He saw what Mugabe did to his country and thought it was such a good idea that he's now trying to do the same to SA. The anc has always idolized Mugabe. Mugabe showed the white devil who's baas so he's an instant saint. Doesn't matter that he killed thousands and that millions are suffering, he will always be a hero/saint/god. African mentality.

I wonder if there's any African "leader" who hasn't praised him for being such a great man..

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

How has everyone celebrated his passing on this weekend?
I went camping early on Friday and made a moerse big fire and braaid waaay to much meat, came home yesterday, made pancakes and drank beer and watched tv.
Today i will carry on celebrating by lounging around drinking more beer
Cheers Bob, here's to you leaving planet Earth, tsek jou naai !!


What have you all been up to?

 

[BTTB]

I wonder how many of the older white people that were forced to leave Zimbabwe are still alive to gloat over Mugabe's passing. I recall stories of many old people retiring with nothing to places like Cape Town, Fish Hoek and elsewhere, with only the hope of charity from relatives and other semaritians to keep them afloat in their golden years.

 

[Milano]

Double check the body to make sure he's still dead. Then nail a stake through his heart to make sure he stays dead.

 

[Mila]

Ding dong the d@@s is gone.
But next in line will not give up the gravy train either.
Maybe they can pray for colonialism ,seems like that was was that was the list time things went well
In that country

/flamesuit

 

[Grant]

How has everyone celebrated his passing on this weekend?
I went camping early on Friday and made a moerse big fire and braaid waaay to much meat, came home yesterday, made pancakes and drank beer and watched tv.
Today i will carry on celebrating by lounging around drinking more beer
Cheers Bob, here's to you leaving planet Earth, tsek jou naai !!


What have you all been up to?

i went for can-can lessons - check it out:

 

[Grant]

I wonder how many of the older white people that were forced to leave Zimbabwe are still alive to gloat over Mugabe's passing. I recall stories of many old people retiring with nothing to places like Cape Town, Fish Hoek and elsewhere, with only the hope of charity from relatives and other semaritians to keep them afloat in their golden years.

the miserable rotting old **** left his own pensioners in the same position, while he and the whore he married looted state funds to live a life of lavish opulence

national hero indeed !

 

[Milano]

 

[Grant]

Zimbabweans cold-shoulder Mugabe national mourning

Flags flew at half mast in Harare on Saturday, but a day after former president Robert Mugabe’s death many Zimbabweans preferred to work as usual than publicly mourn the independence hero turned despot.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced a period of national mourning on Friday following Mugabe’s death in Singapore at the age of 95, two years after he was ousted after nearly four decades in power.


“We are not mourning, why should we mourn when we are suffering like this,” said Ozias Mupeti, 55, standing on a dusty curb in downtown Harare. “Look at me selling pieces of ginger on the streets, at my age. I should have been an employer by now,” he said.

Icecream seller Tendai Marange who has three children to feed, said she would mourn Mugabe, but later. “When the body arrives we will stop. For now we have to work because life is tough these days,” she said. “We don’t feel sorry for the old man,” added a car rental employee who was afraid to give his name.

“In Germany when (Adolf) Hitler died I think they celebrated. In Iraq when Saddam Hussein died they celebrated,” he said. Only a handful of supporters came out onto the streets of Harare, sporting Mugabe-emblazoned T-shirts, as shops remained open and people went about their daily business.

Zimbabweans cold-shoulder Mugabe national mourning

“We don’t feel sorry for the old man,” added a car rental employee who was afraid to give his name.

www.sowetanlive.co.za

 

[Grant]

Mugabe was a selfish dictator who crushed anyone who crossed his path: Zimbabweans speak

Mugabe, who died on Friday in a hospital in Singapore at the age of 95, died a bitter man. He had not come to terms with the political ascension of his once-trusted lieutenant Emmerson Mnangagwa, who succeeded him as president.

“He was the most selfish man I came to know. A tough disciplinarian too – he crushed everyone who crossed his path at his prime,” said a Zanu-PF member.

Between 1983 and 1987, Mugabe launched the so-called “Gukurahundi”, a violent campaign targeting civilians and alleged dissidents who supported the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) and its leader, Joshua Nkomo. The Korean-trained 5th Brigade, an army unit with political links that fell outside army command, killed an estimated 20,000 people in Matabeleland and the Midlands provinces.

For Thabani Zhou, a foreign exchange dealer, the mess in which Zimbabwe now finds itself can be traced back to Mugabe.

“Before 1995, the country was spoilt for choice. There were many able people who could have taken over from him. Already then, he looked tired and should have retired but his long stay created this mess. We have a coup to our name; before that, hyperinflation and bad service delivery. All those things started with him. Talk of the culture of political violence we see today, it’s all from Mugabe’s playbook,” he said.

Mugabe was a selfish dictator who crushed anyone who crossed his path: Zimbabweans speak

When Robert Mugabe was elected prime minister of Zimbabwe in 1980, his supporters took to the streets to celebrate. When he was deposed in a coup in November 2017, Zimbabweans from across the political divide marched in solidarity with the army that overthrew him.

www.sowetanlive.co.za

 

[Pineapple Smurf]

i went for can-can lessons - check it out:

now i have that tune stuck in my head

 

[RonSwanson]

May the Lord have mercy on his soul.

 

[TheChamp]

Good for Zims, there's no time to mourn.