Mjue Bob wa Afrika

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RAIS wa Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe amefikisha miaka 92


Mugabe, alizaliwa katika kijiji cha Kutama, kusini-magharibi mwa jiji kuu Harare, alisomeshwa na wayesuti, na baadaye akawa mwalimu kabla kujiingiza katika harakati za kupigania uhuru wa Zimbabwe.
Uwanaharakati wake ulimfanya afungwe gerezani kwa miaka 11, na baadaye mwaka 1980 akawa rais wa kwanza wa Zimbabwe.Yafuatayo ni mambo tisa ambayo huenda huyajui kumhusu kiongozi huyu na ambaye yamemwezesha kuwa rais kwa muda mrefu mno.
1) Zoezi na vyakula vya kienyeji

Mugabe akionekana kuwa na furaha mno
Mugabe anapenda kufanya mazoezi. “Mimi hujihisi mgonjwa wakati sijafanya mazoezi ya viuongo vya mwili,” Bw. Mugabe alisema miaka mitatu iliyopita. Huwa anaamuka kati ya saa kumi na kumi na moja alfajiri, na kutokana na jamaa zake wa karibu, husikiliza BBC idhaa ya dunia.
Siri nyingine ya kuishi kwake kwa muda mrefu ni kuwa ywapenda sana-chakula cha kienyeji kinacholiwa sana Zimbabwe. Kisha pia, havuti sigara, ila hunywa pombe kidogo anapokula.


2) 'Kufufuka'
Ingawa kumekuwa na uvumi mara nyingi kuwa Mugabe hana afya nzuri, afya yake na kazi yake ya kisiasa yaendelea vyema kabisa. Kuhusu afya yake Mugabe alipohojiwa wakati mmoja alisema,“ Nimekufa mara nyingi-hapo ndipo humwelekea Yesu Kristo. Yesu alikufa mara moja, na akafufuka mara moja,” alisema alipotimia miaka 88.
Ingawa alilelewa katika familia ya kikatoliki-mamake alikuwa mcha Mungu-alisema alipohojiwa na kituo cha habari cha Afrika Kusini, SABC, miaka michache iliyopita, kuwa yeye si Mkristo anayetumikia dini kwa sana.

aliwahi kusema yeye hajawahi kukwepa kifo ila kifo ndio kinamkwepa

3) Shabiki mkubwa sana wa kriketi
Kwa muda mrefu amedhihirisha hadharani mapenzi ya mchezo wa kriketi. Ni patroni wa jumuiya ya mchezo wa kriketi wa Zimbabwe, ambapo nyumba yake ipo karibu na uga wa michezo wa Harare, ambapo anaweza kutazama kwa makini wakati wa michezo wa kitaifa.
“Kriketi yafanya watu wawe wangwana, na pia inawafanya watu kuwa wema,” Bw. Mugabe alisema miaka kadhaa baada ya Zimbabwe kujinyakulia uhuru. “Nataka kila mtu acheze kriketi Zimbabwe; nataka nchi ya Zimbabwe iwe nchi ya wangwana.”
4) Hapendi kushindwa
Alipokuwa kijana, Mugabe alikuwa mmakinifu na mzuri kabisa katika mchezo wa tennis,” alisema aliyekuwa mwalimu katika shule ya Wakatoliki alikosomea Mugabe. Ila, aliposhindwa katika mchezo huo, aliitupa raketi yake chini kwa hasira.
Mugabe amekiri kuwa hakuwa mzuri katika mchezo wa kandanda alipokuwa mdogo, ila kwa sasa, anapenda kuutazama mchezo huo.
Yeye ni shabiki wa vilabu vya Chelsea na Barcelona vilivyoko Uingereza na Uhispania mtawalia. “ Ninapotazama kandanda, sitaki usumbufu kutoka kwa mtu yeyote,” alisema mwaka wa 2012. “Hata mke wangu anajua mahala pa kukaa wakati wanapofunga bao uwanjani, hata mimi pia hufunga bao kwangu kwa kupiga mateke vitu vyovyote vilivyoko mbele yangu.”


5) Alipata mtoto akiwa miaka 73

Familia ya Mugabe
Ana watoto watau na mke wake wa pili, Grace Marufu, aliyekuwa karani wake. Mtoto wao wa tatu alizaliwa 1997, mwaka mmoja baada ya wao kufunga ndoa.
Mwanawe wa kwanza, Nhamodzenyika, alikufa kutokana na Malaria akiwa miaka mitatu bado wakiwa Ghana. Bw. Mugabe alinyimwa ruhusa ya kuenda Accra kuungana na mkewe kwa mazishi ya mwanawe, kwani alikuwa mfungwa wa kisiasa wa serikali ya enzi hiyo ya Rhodesia.

6) Anampenda Cliff Richard kumliko Bob Marley
Mwanasiasa wa Zimbabwe ambaye kwa sasa ni hayati, Edgar Tekere, alimwambia mwandishi wa BBC, Brian Hungwe, kuwa alipokuwa akitayarisha kadhia ya kusherehekea uhuru wa Zimbabwe 1980, Bw. Mugabe hakumtaka muimbaji Bob Marley aalikwe kutumbuiza watu, ila alimtaka muimbaji maarufu wa Uingereza, Cliff Richard. Pia anampenda Muimbaji, Jim Reeves.
Mugabe anawachukia sana wanamitindo wa rasta, na waimbaji wa mitindo ya reggae. Aliwaonya vijana wa Zimbabwe: “ Nchini Jamaica, wana uhuru wa kutumia bhangi, na wanaume huwa wakati wote wamelewa. Hawataki kuenda shule; wanataka tu kuimba, na kufuga rasta. Kama Zimbabwe, tusielekee hapo.”
7) Mvaaji wa nguo maridadi
Anapenda sana suti zinazoutosha mwili wake visawasawa na tai zinazofanana na kitambaa. Hwavutia sana wanamitindo nchini Zimbabwe kwa mavazi yake. Ila, mwanamitindo ambaye humshonea nguo zake ,Khalil Parbhoo anasema: “Bado huavlia kama mabwana wa Uingereza –hivyo ndivyo anavyopenda."
8) Anamtazama Kwame Nkrumah kama kielelezo kwake

Taarifa kuhusu hali ya kiafya ya Mugabe zimekuwa zikigonga vichwa vya habari karibuni
Bw. Mugabe alipata azma ya siasa akiwa Ghana alipokuwa mwalimu; mahali alipokutana na mke wake wa kwanza, Sally Hayfron.
Aliporudi Zimbabwe, aliwaambia wananchi jinsi Ghana ilivyojinyakulia uhuru na jinsi uhuru ni kitu kizuri. Katika mahojiano mwaka 2003, Mugabe alisema: “Niliwaambia pia kuhusu Kwame Nkrumah jinsi alivyojitolea na kuiongoza Ghana kupata uhuru;Kwame aliwaambia wananchi wa Ghana kuwa Ghana haingekuwa nchi huru bila ya jitihada na kujitolea kwa kila mtu.”
9) Ni mtu mwenye shahada nyingi
Kwa jumla, Mugabe ana shahada saba. Digrii yake ya kwanza ni kutoka katika chuo kikuu cha Fort Hare kilichoko Afrika Kusini. Alisomea digrii zake zingine kwa njia Internet-mbili akiwa gerezani-shahada hizo ni za: elimu, sayansi, sheria na usimamizi.
Amejitapa kuwa na “shahada katika ujuhula” alipokuwa akivionya vyama vya kutetea haki za wafanyakazi nchini Zimbabwe 1998 kila vilipotishia kugoma.
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Robert Mugabe comes from a highly dysfunctional family background

Robert Mugabe is reported to have had two older brothers when he was a young boy, both of whom died while they were still only children. Around the time of the second child’s death aged 10, his father abandoned the family in 1934. Robert Mugabe’s mother had to start a new family thereafter, and so she went on to bear new children from another husband.

 

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Robert Mugabe is a lottery winner

In 2000, when Zimbabwe was barely managing to come out of its worst famine and one out of two Zimbabweans was suffering from continuous unemployment, Robert Mugabe’s name was the one that was miraculously drawn by the national lottery in Zimbabwe, winning 100,000 Zimbabwean dollars (the equivalent of about $2,500 today). The entire country was surprised at the time but with the lottery being drawn by the country’s Reserve Bank, and with many of its directors having direct ties to or careers in government that surprise turned out to be short-lived.

However, Mugabe’s lucky win in the 2000 lottery was nothing compared to the lavish spending on his 90th birthday celebrations earlier this year, which is assumed to have run a total bill of over $40 million, pulled together from party funds, municipal money and ‘donations’. When it comes to money, our neighbour Bob is certainly not short of creative ideas.

 

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Boulevard of Broken Dreams

Namibia’s capital Windhoek features an homage to the Zimbabwean president with its very own Robert Mugabe Avenue, which seems to run for miles and miles from one end of the city to the other. Quite a central feature in downtown Windhoek, the “Mugavenue” runs past several Namibian landmarks such as the country’s Supreme Court, the Parliament Gardens and numerous foreign embassies, forming one of the main arteries through town.

In an ironic twist of town planning, however, Robert Mugabe Avenue actually happens to intersect with another iconically-named city infrastructure in Windhoek, Fidel Castro Street, saying perhaps a little bit more about the commonalities between the two revolutionary leaders than either one of them might find comfortable.

 

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Robert Mugabe plans to run as president… again

By the look of his face alone he may well be older than Methuselah himself, but Robert Mugabe has confirmed that he intends to run for office again in 2018. If he does survive that for long he will have been president for over 30 years, preceded by his seven-year stint as prime minister.

Despite the fact that election fraud is believed to have been behind his most recent2013 victory (with 61 per cent of votes going to his ZANU-PF party), Mugabe seems to be hopeful about the future, saying at his recent 90th birthday celebrations that he still felt as “energetic as a nine year old boy.”

We don’t know yet what his plans may be for elections in 2023 and beyond, but with medical advances in stem-cell research, daily Revlon rinses and enough formaldehyde to pickle the entire African continent, he might just manage to outlive us all.

 

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Robert Mugabe comes from a highly dysfunctional family background

Robert Mugabe is reported to have had two older brothers when he was a young boy, both of whom died while they were still only children. Around the time of the second child’s death aged 10, his father abandoned the family in 1934. Robert Mugabe’s mother had to start a new family thereafter, and so she went on to bear new children from another husband.

Not surprising. Zimbabwe (then known as Northern Rhodesia) was under the rule of an oppressive, racist, white minority regime. That was the kind of life most African families lived. That is the environment in which
Mugabe was born and grew up. He has every right to be defiant against all apologists of colonialism and so-called defenders of democracy, human rights and other cliches.