The ex-president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe has died.
Mugabe passed on Friday (September 6, 2019) in a five-star hospital in Singapore.
Reports suggest that Mr. Mugabe died whiles being treated for an undisclosed illness which left him paralysed for more than 10 months. Family of the deceased including wife Grace, was by his side when he died.
‘It is with the utmost sadness that I announce the passing on of Zimbabwe’s founding father and former President, Cde Robert Mugabe,” President Emmerson Mnangagwa ‘hypocr!t!cally’ wrote on Twitter on Friday, using the abbreviation for comrade.
President Mnangagwa further said ‘Mugabe was an icon of liberation, a pan-Africanist who dedicated his life to the emancipation and empowerment of his people. His contribution to the history of our nation and continent will never be forgotten.’
Robert Mugabe’s death served as a ‘market day’ for the western press. Most of the leading western media including CNN, The New York Times, Washington Post and The Sun described Mr. Mugabe as a ‘tyrant’, a ‘dictat0r’, ‘str0ngman’, ‘ruthle$$ ruler whose bl00dy reign of terr0r crippled his fledgling country.’
Africans do not talk ill about the dead. But The Sun published a negat!ve headline about the deceased Zimbabwe’s former president saying:
‘DEATH OF A TYRANT Robert Mugabe dead – Brutal Zimbabwe president whose bloody reign of terror crippled his country dies aged 95’
The New York Times captured Mugabe’s death as ‘Robert Mugabe, Strongman Who Cried, ‘Zimbabwe Is Mine,’ Dies at 95.’
The CNN shared a similar headline with The New York Times. CNN posted a sarcastic headline on its website on Friday stating ‘Robert Mugabe, who once said ‘only God’ could ever remove him, dies at 95.’
The Washington Post also reported Mugabe’s death with the scratchy headline:
‘Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwean leader who helped liberate and destroy his country, dies at 95.’
Quite remarkable, the CNN recognises Late Robert Mugabe as a hero.
CNN reporters, Tricia Escobedo, David McKenzie and Hilary Clarke indeed admire the personality of the late Mugabe.
According to them, Mugabe ‘…remained until his death the revered leader who ushered in independence after bringing an end to white-minority rule.’
‘But to his cr!t!cs, Mugabe was the caricature of an African dictator who oppressed his opponents and ruined a country to retain power, which he was forced to relinquish, at the age of 93, in 2017’, the CNN reporters claimed.
Whether Mugabe was a good person or not, the old man is no more. He is gone. Gone forever.
As human, Mugabe had his own strengths and weakness just like any of us. By this time, tears should be running down our cheeks. We should not just shed tears because Mugabe has died. We should weep because a human being is dead.
Can we stop ‘demon!z!ng’ Mugabe at least for now until he is finally laid to rest?
Shall we observe a minute silence for the departed soul?
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