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Few Zimbabweans are ruling out victory for the 89-year-old Mugabe even though his country, once an African success story, is in a decade-long economic slump worsened by Western sanctions and more than four fifths of the population is unemployed. Since Mugabe was forced to share power with his chief political rival after a disputed election in 2008, the economy has shown tentative signs of recovery. Rampant inflation has calmed, the mining sector is buoyant and agriculture is picking up after turmoil caused by the seizure of farms from their white owners under Mugabe's policy of black empowerment.
Mugabe, Africa's oldest president, maintains that Zimbabwe's difficulties stem from a Western plot to re-colonize it, a view that strikes a chord with his supporters, who see the sanctions as punishment for a justified campaign to wrest their country's wealth from the hands of foreign corporations and the white minority.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe (4th R) and first lady Grace Mugabe (2nd R) stand with the presidents birthday cake among guests on the occasion of his 89th birthday celebrations held in his honor at the State House
To his critics, Mugabe's land seizures and a drive to force foreign-owned firms to sell majority shareholding to locals has delayed economic recovery by discouraging foreign investment. They say Mugabe, long admired as a liberation hero and pragmatic leader, has turned Zimbabwe into a basket case and squandered national goodwill by clinging onto power through ballot box rigging and intimidation. The champion of African popular rule has looked increasingly to God to bolster his claim to leadership.
Addressing his staff at a party they hosted for him on the eve of his 89th birthday, Mugabe was serenaded by one of the country's leading gospel singers and spoke of the solitude he has felt since many of his relatives and independence-era comrades died. "Why is it that all my friends are gone and my relatives are gone and I continue to linger on? Then I say to myself, well, it's not my choice, its God's choice," Mugabe said at the party late on Wednesday, which was attended by state media. "This is a task the Lord might have wanted me to fulfill among my people," he said. "I read it as a bidding of God... The bidding says you move forward ever."
Tight race?
my highschool classmate whom I haven't seen in a few years is a godson of Mugabe. He threw some wild parties. Very crazy guy.
my highschool classmate whom I haven't seen in a few years is a godson of Mugabe. He threw some wild parties. Very crazy guy.
He's probably Minister of Finance now!
You could ask him for a farm!
The European recolonialist worst nightmare, are leaders that adhere to Robert
Mugabe philosophy. This derails all plans for the recolonization of the African continent.
The European recolonialist worst nightmare, are leaders that adhere to Robert
Mugabe philosophy. This derails all plans for the recolonization of the African continent.
It does not take a rocket-scientist to figure that most leaders of developing nations often portrayed as dictators by developed nations are merely people who would not buy into the ideas (often geared to mostly profit Western plunderers) of developed nations. I adore any leader of a developing nation who stands up and speaks out against IMPERIALISM.
