{"id":34443,"date":"2019-09-06T11:23:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T10:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=34443"},"modified":"2019-09-06T11:23:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T10:23:41","slug":"19-key-milestones-in-the-life-of-robert-mugabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/19-key-milestones-in-the-life-of-robert-mugabe\/","title":{"rendered":"19 Key Milestones In The Life Of Robert Mugabe"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following are key milestones in the life of Zimbabwe\u2019s former leader Robert Mugabe.<\/p>\n

1924 \u2013 Mugabe is born on February 21 in what was then British-ruled Southern Rhodesia.<\/p>\n

1940s-1950s \u2013 He is educated at Catholic schools and attends South Africa\u2019s University of Fort Hare.<\/p>\n

He teaches in Zambia and Ghana, where he is influenced by African independence movement leaders.<\/p>\n

1960s \u2013 Mugabe campaigns for Zimbabwe\u2019s independence and is imprisoned in 1964 for political agitation.<\/p>\n

While incarcerated, he earns two law degrees from the University of London External Programme.<\/p>\n

1974 \u2013 Released from prison, he escapes to Mozambique were Zimbabwe African National Union guerrilla fighters elect him to lead their struggle against white minority rule.<\/p>\n

A number of rivals die in suspicious circumstances, rights groups say.<\/p>\n

1980 \u2013 Mugabe\u2019s ZANU-PF party wins independent Zimbabwe\u2019s first election. He takes office as prime minister on April 18.<\/p>\n

1982 \u2013 Mugabe deploys North Korean-trained troops to crush an insurgency by former guerrillas loyal to his liberation war rival Joshua Nkomo.<\/p>\n

Government forces are accused of involvement in the killing of 20,000 civilians, which Mugabe denies.<\/p>\n

1987 \u2013 He becomes president with sweeping executive powers after changes to the constitution and signs a unity pact with Nkomo, who becomes one of his two deputies.<\/p>\n

1990 \u2013 ZANU-PF and Mugabe win parliamentary and presidential elections.<\/p>\n

1998 \u2013 An economic crisis marked by high interest rates and inflation sparks riots.<\/p>\n

2000 \u2013 Zimbabweans reject a new constitution in a referendum, Mugabe\u2019s first defeat at the ballot box.<\/p>\n

Thousands of independence war veterans and their allies, backed by the government, seize white-owned farms, saying the land was illegally appropriated by white settlers.<\/p>\n

2001 \u2013 The United States puts a financial freeze on Mugabe\u2019s government in response to land seizures, beginning a wave of Western sanctions.<\/p>

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Mugabe\u2019s relationship with the West, especially the US and Britain, never recovers.<\/p>\n

2002 \u2013 Mugabe wins a disputed presidential vote, which observers condemn as flawed.<\/p>\n

Zimbabwe is suspended from the British Commonwealth over accusations of human rights abuses and economic mismanagement.<\/p>\n

Mugabe pulls his country from the grouping the following year.<\/p>\n

2008 \u2013 Hyperinflation reaches 500 billion per cent, the nadir of an economic implosion that forces millions of people to leave the country, many to neighbouring South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u2013 Mugabe loses a presidential vote but wins the run-off after opponent Morgan Tsvangirai withdraws citing violence against his supporters by security forces and war veterans.<\/p>\n

A power-sharing agreement is signed.<\/p>\n

2010 \u2013 Media reports say Mugabe is seriously ill with cancer, speculation that continues in following years.<\/p>\n

2013 \u2013 Mugabe wins another disputed presidential vote.<\/p>\n

Western observers site multiple accounts of electoral fraud.<\/p>\n

2016 \u2013 Protesters led by a pastor stage the biggest show of defiance against Mugabe in a decade, prompting speculation about life after the veteran leader.<\/p>\n

2017 \u2013 Mugabe is forced to resign in November following an army coup and is replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man he had fired as his deputy two weeks earlier.<\/p>\n

2018 \u2013 Mugabe is seen in public for the first time since leaving power.<\/p>\n

He berates his former ZANU-PF allies and backs opposition leader Nelson Chamisa on the eve of an election.<\/p>\n

2019 \u2013 Mugabe travels several times to Singapore to seek medical treatment as pictures of the gaunt, gray-haired former leader circulate on social media.<\/p>\n

(Reuters\/NAN)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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