{"id":38752,"date":"2019-09-06T16:20:30","date_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38752"},"modified":"2019-09-06T16:20:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T16:20:30","slug":"good-bye-good-riddance-to-the-tyrant-mugabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38752","title":{"rendered":"Good bye, good riddance to the tyrant Mugabe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Mugabe%20%23Zimbabwe%20%23Mandela%20%23SouthAfrica%20%23Rhodesia&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mugabe.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38753\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mugabe-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mugabe-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/mugabe.jpg 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Robert Mugabe&#8217;s legacy surely will be carved in stone.<\/p>\n<p>He became the first head of government in 1980 of a newly renamed country that at that time was the model of prosperity in Africa. Rhodesia became Zimbabwe and Mugabe became the country&#8217;s first prime minister.<\/p>\n<p>He later became its president. What happened then over the course of the next three-plus decades is shameful in the extreme.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe devolved from prosperity to abject poverty and deprivation. Mugabe wanted to govern the country until he died. He didn&#8217;t quite make it. He was forced out in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe died this week at the age of 95. The world should not mourn this guy&#8217;s passing. It should instead declare that Earth is a better place without him.<\/p>\n<p>He took office as a revolutionary, promising even greater prosperity for his constituents. He delivered nothing but misery and mayhem. Zimbabwe plunged into a state of utter despair under Mugabe&#8217;s iron-fisted, ham-handed, brutal rule.<\/p>\n<p>How does one dare call that a successful transition?<\/p>\n<p>I cannot.<\/p>\n<p>He saw himself as Africa&#8217;s model of reform, known around the world as a statesman. Then in 1990, something remarkable happened. A real statesman was released from prison in South Africa. Nelson Mandela took control of his country and emerged as one of the world&#8217;s pre-eminent champions of political reform. He eclipsed Mugabe almost immediately.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe&#8217;s tyrannical rule has virtually ruined his country.<\/p>\n<p>So long, Mr. Dictator.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?hashtags=Mugabe%20%23Zimbabwe%20%23Mandela%20%23SouthAfrica%20%23Rhodesia&#038;via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Robert Mugabe&#8217;s legacy surely will be carved in stone. He became the first head of government in 1980 of a newly renamed country that at that time was the model of prosperity in Africa. Rhodesia became Zimbabwe and Mugabe became the country&#8217;s first prime minister. He later became its president. What happened then over the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=38752\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good bye, good riddance to the tyrant Mugabe<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3251,3984,5331],"class_list":["post-38752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-nelson-mandela","tag-robert-mugabe","tag-zimbabwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38754,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38752\/revisions\/38754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}