Robert Mugabe Flashback

[Disir]

anyone remember this?

 

[JGalt]

Never saw that. But someone did want Mugabe, Obama, and Kim Jong Un to run for something in 2016...

 

[DOTR]

I remember it well. Part of the wave of communist takeovers in Africa during that time. In addition to their support from the USSR, China and Cuba the guerrillas had the intense support of European and American liberals and the Democrat Party.
A savage wave of beatings, executions and slaughters of fellow blacks followed the communist/Democrat Party victories and ultimately led to the expected famines and starvation and mass exodus of blacks to white ruled South Africa where they felt safer. The liberals then went after South Africa.
Ian Smith, the last Rhodesian Prime Minister, turned over to Mugabe a country whose pound was at par with the British Pound even after decades of war. Inflation under the communists eventually topped 231,150,888 %.
Lusophone Africa suffered as well and the defeat of the Portuguese by communist rebels led to the largest migration in human history.

Jimmy Carter left Africa in a state similar to what Obama/Clinton left the Mideast and Ukraine. Wars, slaughter, famine in the service of socialist goals.

 

[waltky]

Is Mnangagwa a puppet of Mugabe?...

Mugabe could advise Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe's new president
Nov. 26, 2017 -- Robert Mugabe, the man who was forced to resign after 37 years as Zimbabwe's president, could serve as a source of advice for the southern African nation's new leader.

Father Fidelis Mukonori, the Jesuit priest who helped mediate the political standoff that saw Mugabe step down last week, told the BBC that Zimbabwe's newest president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, would likely seek Mugabe for counsel. "In the African world, senior citizens are there for advice," Mukonori told BBC reporter Richard Galpin. Thousands of Zimbabweans celebrated the news that Mugabe would relinquish his post.

Those celebrating had hope of improvement for the government and an economy that has stagnated under Mugabe's 37-year rule. Some of that hope faded when it was announced Mugabe's longtime right-hand man would secede him. During Mnangagwa's swearing in, the new leader paid homage to his predecessor -- evidence Mnangagwa's relationship with Mugabe remains strong, Mukonori said. "When he says 'he's my father, he's my leader, he's my mentor,' you tell me he's going to stay off from his father, from his mentor, from his leader?" Mukonori said. "I don't think so."

Reports suggest Robert Mugabe, center, could offer counsel to Zimbabwe's new president, Emmerson Mnangagwa.​

Some Zimbabweans have expressed doubts that Mnangagwa will offer much of a departure from his predecessor and political ally. Mugabe has been blamed for ordering violence against his own citizens, squashing free speech and rigging elections, among other charges. "Nothing will change; poverty and suffering will continue," 28-year-old Mevion Gambiza, a graduate of the University of Zimbabwe, told the New York Times.

Mnangagwa is expected to announce his cabinet in the coming days. His choices could offer some insight into his commitment to democratic reforms. "He must fish from academic, religious and opposition ponds for certain competencies, if he is genuine about making life better for all Zimbabweans," Eldred Masunungure, University of Zimbabwe political science lecturer, told the Zimbabwean Mail. "His new cabinet will be useless if it is not supported by an equally, if not more capable cast of bureaucrats in all the various ministries," said former civic leader McDonald Lewanika.

Mugabe could advise Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe's new president