Robert Mugabe Quotes


It was from Tito that I drew inspiration while searching for the best road to take and when making crucial decisions during our liberation struggle. I often thought, what would Tito do at that moment?


Context

Early in his career Mugabe was a democrat and socialist. Then Tito was his role Model. Ironically, he subsequently became a Fascist dictator—the complete opposite of what his hero, Tito would approve. Tito first fought the Nazi Fascist Dictatorship and then the Dictatorship of Stalin in Russia, Mugabe has adopted their brutal political techniques and holds on to power only through gangs of thugs even though he failed to win a majority in Zimbabwe elections. Tito would use military violence to combat violent dictators like Mugabe.


Citations

Robert Mugabe, President & Dictator of Zimbabwe, Quoted in Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography

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Robert Mugabe
  • Born: February 21, 1924
  • Died: September 6, 2019
  • Nationality: Zimbabwean
  • Profession: Statesman

Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Zimbabwe from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017. He served as Leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) from 1975 to 1980 and led its successor political party, the ZANU – Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF), from 1980 to 2017. Ideologically an African nationalist, during the 1970s and 1980s he identified as a Marxist–Leninist, and as a socialist after the 1990s.