President Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the last of the old African nationalists who rode to power on the colonial winds of change. This year, after months of upheaval in which his two-decade-long grip on ...

University of Johannesburg provides support as an endorsing partner of The Conversation AFRICA. One wishes one could say “rest in peace”. One can only say, “may there be more peace for Zimbabwe’s ...

This morning, Zimbabweans awoke to the news of the death of Robert Gabriel Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe with an iron fist for 37 years. He was 95 years old. For some, Mugabe remains a hero and champion ...

Robert Mugabe, the former leader of Zimbabwe, has died in a Singapore hospital aged 95. During his long political career, Mugabe went from a widely respected anti-colonial revolutionary to a pariah ...

Robert Mugabe has died. The former leader of Zimbabwe was 95 years old. When Mugabe came to power in 1980, he was a hero of Zimbabwe's struggle for independence from Britain. But his heroism in those ...

Robert Mugabe, the African revolutionary hero who liberated his country from white rule but then turned the new, independent nation of Zimbabwe into his personal fiefdom and a virtual one-party state ...

1 of 6 — Zimbabwe African National Union leader Robert Mugabe in Geneva, Switzerland, 1976. Others are unidentified. 2 of 6 — Zimbabwe Prime Minister Robert Mugabe an election rally near Harare, 1985.