Robert Mugabe Steps Down After 37 Years of Dictatorship

1976

Robert Mugabe, leader of Patriotic Front, a coalition of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union and the Zimbabwe African National Union, at a press conference in Geneva. Then a Marxist freedom fighter, Mugabe was living in exile and seen as a revolutionary hero fighting a guerrilla war against the Rhodesian prime minister, Ian Smith, and white minority rule
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