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06 Sep 2025 12:02 #1 by Laffy
Mugabe was created by Laffy
Statesman or disgusting tyrant-discuss
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06 Sep 2025 12:40 #2 by ParcelPete
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Yorkshire man wasn't he ?
Mugabe backwards
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06 Sep 2025 12:53 #3 by Dentonholmersimpson
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Laffy wrote: Statesman or disgusting tyrant-discuss


One man's freedom fighter is another man's terrorist.

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06 Sep 2025 13:25 #4 by Waltero
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He dragged his fellow countrymen/women into poverty, ruined a once prosperous country. Despot sums him up
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06 Sep 2025 13:45 #5 by heilkmoon
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A good example of someone corrupted by power.

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06 Sep 2025 15:03 #6 by munchymagic
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Talking to someone from Zimbabwe recently, he told me that the people thought that the white people were ruining their country but it is when it was ruled by the blacks that the corruption set in and poverty.

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06 Sep 2025 15:40 #7 by High Street
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Rhodesia please, old chap.
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06 Sep 2025 16:04 #8 by Waltero
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I can remember when Smith declared UDI when I was in Aden. We were all put on standby, I quite fancied a trip down to Rhodesia but it never happened
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06 Sep 2025 16:57 #9 by ParcelPete
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Waltero wrote: I can remember when Smith declared UDI when I was in Aden. We were all put on standby, I quite fancied a trip down to Rhodesia but it never happened


I hope Aden is a place name.
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06 Sep 2025 17:00 #10 by 09sider
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Tyrant, transformed his country from the bread basket of Africa into a basket case.

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06 Sep 2025 17:18 #11 by carwash
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I'd put him in the same category as Saddam and Gadaffi. You might think they were terrible tyrants but what follows is even worse. Zimbabwe is in a worse state now than at any time since Independence and is in economic ruin. Colonialism wasn't perfect but it brought peace and prosperity.
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06 Sep 2025 17:51 #12 by Bluedazblue
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He was a socialist.

True to form he ruined the country.
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06 Sep 2025 18:05 #13 by AlbertRoss
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heilkmoon wrote: A good example of someone corrupted by power.


I think that's spot on. Undeniably a freedom fighter early on, but became a tyrant dictator clinging to power at all costs. Interesting interview on TV with historian Frank Dikotter who has a new book on dictators and one of his defining characteristics is that they concentrate power in themselves, not, as a democracy does, distribute it among agencies to create checks and balances, and by this standard Mugabe was a classic dictator.

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06 Sep 2025 18:06 #14 by Alan
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Who's Corbyn gonna call now for monetary advice.
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07 Sep 2025 21:46 #15 by munchymagic
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An interesting statistic that I read earlier.

"One statistic sums up what Robert Mugabe did for his people: At independence in 1980, the average life expectancy for a Zimbabwean was about 60 years old; by 2006, that had dropped to 37 for men and 34 for women, the shortest in the world."

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08 Sep 2025 01:07 #16 by Bluedazblue
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Alan wrote: Who's Corbyn gonna call now for monetary advice.


President Maduro of Venezuela.

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