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January 27: On This Day in World History … briefly
Whatever difficulties occurred he attributed to old enemies — Britain, the West, the old Rhodesian network — all bent, he believed, on destroying his 'revolution'.
1980: Robert Mugabe set to rule
Leader of Rhodesia’s guerilla army Robert Mugabe returns to Salisbury after five years of exile – to take part in elections that will transfer the country to majority rule. The country would be renamed Zimbabwe.
“The wrongs of the past must now stand forgiven and forgotten. If ever we look to the past, let us do so for the lesson the past has taught us, namely that oppression and racism are inequalities that must never find scope in our political and social system. It could never be a correct justification that just because the whites oppressed us yesterday when they had power, the blacks must oppress them today because they have power. An evil remains an evil whether practiced by white against black or black against white.” — Mugabe’s speech after his 1980 victory.
Having dominated Zimbabwe’s politics for nearly four decades, Mugabe has been a controversial figure. He has been praised as a revolutionary hero of the African liberation struggle who helped to free Zimbabwe from British colonialism, imperialism and white minority rule. He has also been accused of being a dictator responsible for economic mismanagement, widespread corruption, anti-white racism, human rights abuses and crimes against humanity.
Most notable historic snippets or facts extracted from the book ‘On This Day’ first published in 1992 by Octopus Publishing Group Ltd, London, as well as additional supplementary information extracted from Wikipedia.
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