Robert Gabriel Mugabe ist ein simbabwischer Politiker und seit 1987 Präsident von Simbabwe. Mugabe ist Vorsitzender der Regierungspartei ZANU. Er gehört dem Volk der Shona an. Von 1980 bis 1987 bekleidete er das Amt des Ministerpräsidenten. Mugabe ist derzeit das weltweit älteste Staatsoberhaupt .
Beim Amtsantritt im Jahr 1980 wurde Mugabe als Sprecher des südlichen Afrika gesehen. Deutliche Erfolge wurden in den 1980er Jahren unter anderem im Gesundheitssektor erzielt. Ab den 1990er Jahren veränderte sich jedoch die Politik der Regierung Mugabe. Intransparenz und Korruption nahmen zu, während seine ehemals große Popularität bei der Bevölkerung und sein Ansehen im Ausland abnahm. Mehrere Auszeichnungen aus den 1980er Jahren wurden Mugabe wieder aberkannt. Er regiert das Land seit etwa 2000 offen als Diktator. Seine Herrschaft ist geprägt von Hungersnöten und teilweise schweren Menschenrechtsverletzungen, die zum Ausschluss Simbabwes aus dem Commonwealth führten. Mugabe wird die Einreise in die Europäische Union mit Ausnahme von Besuchen von Veranstaltungen der Vereinten Nationen und des Heiligen Stuhls verweigert.
„Simbabwe wird nie wieder eine Kolonie sein.“
Kampagnenslogan
Original engl.: "Zimbabwe will never be a colony again." - bbc.co.uk http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/794961.stm, 17. Juni 2000
Address to the nation by the Prime Minister-elect http://web.archive.org/web/20040312141228/http://www.gta.gov.zw/Presidential+Speeches/1980_Nat_Add.html
Broadcast speech on Zimbabwe-Rhodesia Television, 4 March 1980, on winning the election.
1980s
During 2017 coup d'etat, as quoted in Xinhua http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/20/c_136765770.htm
2010s
“Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.”
BBC News 'On This Day' http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/27/newsid_2506000/2506219.stm
A plea to the white population of Zimbabwe in a speech at a ZANU-PF rally, 27 January 1980.
1980s
Speech to the United Nations General Assembly (26 September 2007)
2000s, 2005 - 2009
Mugabe cited in: Jasper Ridley, Tito: A Biography (Constable and Company Ltd., 1994), p. 400.
1980s
“It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.”
"ZAPU deposes Mr. Nkomo as Leader", The Times, 9 July 1962, p. 9
Remarks to the press, 8 July 1962, concerning the future strategy of ZAPU in achieving majority rule.
1960s
Speech at the Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Harlem, New York (8 September 2000)
2000s, 2000-2004
Michael White, Andrew Meldrum, "Commonwealth leaders delay decision on defiant Mugabe", The Guardian, 6 December 2003, p. 2.
Speech to ZANU-PF Congress, 5 December 2003.
2000s, 2000-2004
"African threat to ban Sir Roy Welensky", The Times, 10 April 1962, p. 10
Speech at a meeting in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, 9 April 1962.
1960s
Speech at the Earth Summit in Johannesburg (2 September 2002), quoted in John Battersby and Andrew Grice, "Anti-West anger at summit as Mugabe rounds on Blair", The Independent, 3 September 2002, p. 1.
2000s, 2000-2004
Speech to the United Nations General Assembly (26 September 2007)
2000s, 2005 - 2009
Remarks at a memorial for Joshua Nkomo (2 July 2000), referring to the Gukurahundi massacres. Quoted in Mugabe: Power, Plunder, and the Struggle for Zimbabwe's Future (2009) by Martin Meredith
2000s, 2000-2004
“Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!”
"Whites are real enemy, warns Mugabe", Irish Times, 15 December 2000, p. 11.
Speech to ZANU-PF congress, Harare, 14 December 2000.
2000s, 2000-2004
Interview with Heidi Holland (December 2007)
2000s, 2005 - 2009
Speech to the United Nations General Assembly (26 September 2007)
2000s, 2005 - 2009
Speech in Bindura (20 December 2008)
2000s, 2005 - 2009
Remarks following a meeting with Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete (15 March 2007), commenting on a violent clash between members of his party and the opposition MDC
2000s, 2005 - 2009
When asked by Anton du Plessis of the Institute for Security Studies if he agreed that Zimbabwe was a failed state, as quoted by Carien du Plessis in Mugabe: Zim 'is the most highly developed country in Africa after SA' http://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/mugabe-zim-is-the-most-highly-developed-country-in-africa-after-sa-20170504, News 24 (4 May 2017)
2010s
Martin Meredith, "Our Votes, Our Guns: Robert Mugabe and the Tragedy of Zimbabwe".
Said in 1976 while a leading commander of the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army
1970s
Speech at the state funeral of a Cabinet minister, March 2003. Quoted in ['Hitler' Mugabe launches revenge terror attacks, http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/zimbabwe/1425727/Hitler-Mugabe-launches-revenge-terror-attacks.html, Peta, Thornycroft, Daily Telegraph, London, 26 March 2003, 5 August 2013]
2000s, 2000-2004
Addressing delegates at the Zimbabwe embassy in Cairo, Egypt, on the arrest, torture and mistreatment of 15 trade union activists in Zimbabwe, 23 September 2006.
2000s, 2005 - 2009
Chimaima Banda, "Gays seeking sexual asylum in South Africa", The Independent, 6 November 1999, p. 18.
A reference to an incident on 30 October 1999 when the human rights campaigner Peter Tatchell attempted a citizens' arrest on Mugabe during a visit to London.
1990s
ibid.
2000s, 2000-2004
Richard Dowden, "Mugabe: Commonwealth is 'Animal Farm'", Independent on Sunday, 7 December 2003.
Speech to ZANU-PF Congress, 6 December 2003.
2000s, 2000-2004
“What we hate is not the colour of their skins but the evil that emanates from them.”
Speech at the Mount Olivet Baptist Church in Harlem, New York (8 September 2000), quoted in Michael Radu, "State of Disaster", National Review, 27 May 2002
2000s, 2000-2004
As quoted in "WATCH: 'Fascinating' video of Mugabe talking 'non-racialism' like Mandela goes viral on social media" https://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/watch-fascinating-video-of-mugabe-talking-non-racialism-like-mandela-20170916 (16 September 2017), News24, South Africa
2010s
Accusing President Bush and Tony Blair at the UN General Assembly in New York on the US-led Invasion of Iraq. 2004-09-23 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3682352.stm
2000s, 2000-2004
In 1961, as quoted in "WATCH: 'Fascinating' video of Mugabe talking 'non-racialism' like Mandela goes viral on social media" https://www.news24.com/Africa/Zimbabwe/watch-fascinating-video-of-mugabe-talking-non-racialism-like-mandela-20170916 (16 September 2017), News24, South Africa
1960s
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