Mugabe’s Death: A Big Lessons To His Successor President Paul Biya

He had won without a shot at every presidential election, especially against his eternal challenger and former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai, now hospitalized in South Africa.

In November 2017, Robert Mugabe (93), head of state of former Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, was pushed to the exit.
Robert Mugabe was the oldest head of state on the planet. Since 1980, this hero of independence has led his country with an iron fist. He had won without a shot at every presidential election, especially against his eternal challenger and former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai, today.

Grace Mugabe, the impossible Regent

The cacochyme president was still, in early 2017, tipped by the Zanu-PF to consider a last candidacy, in 2018. More and more weakened physically, the old lion realized that the election had become too distant.

His wife, the intriguing and impetuous Grace Mugabe, 41 years younger than him, had understood long ago.

Renowned for her unbridled ambition and taste for luxury that earned her the nickname “Gucci”, Grace Mugabe was noted for her escapades in luxury hotels like recently in South Africa where a brawl with a mannequin has resulted on a diplomatic crisis between the two countries.

His two sons are not left behind in the news column. Grace Mugabe is not part of the Zimbabwean seraglio, so her presidential ambition is, for many, an ultimate and unacceptable provocation. By her intrigues and her behavior, she will have spoiled the exit of Robert Mugabe.

The impossible dismissal of Mnangagwa

With the support of some of the youth of Zanu-PF, Grace Mugabe had therefore undertaken a double nomination operation with her husband and the party. Having convinced Robert Mugabe that she could succeed him, all that remained was to eliminate potential competitors, such as 69-year-old First Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and another hero of national independence.

Mugabe’s Death: A Big lessons to Paul Biya

The dismissal of this faithful companion of Robert Mugabe, November 6, 2017, was the fault that should not be committed. Highly esteemed by Zanu-PF’s caciques, the intelligence services he led, and the army chiefs he promoted, the “crocodile”, the nickname given to Mnangagwa for his ruthlessness towards his adversaries, could not bear the “lack of loyalty” that Robert Mugabe and especially his wife reproached him.

Announced in exile in Mozambique, Emmerson Mnangagwa began settling accounts with Robert and Grace Mugabe. The general officers of the army, headed by the Chief of Staff General Constantino Chiwenga, organized a show of force on 14 November 2017 to eliminate “the criminals surrounding President Mugabe.”

Africa to Africans

The sinking of Robert Mugabe should alert several heads of state who remain deaf and blind to the demands of a youth who lives in “the new world” and becomes insensitive to the demagogic speeches of those political leaders who do not rule for the well-being of their people. Carried by his peers in 2015 to the presidency of the African Union, Robert Mugabe was a little consideration as the “guardian of the temple” with the dogma “Africa to Africans”.

Despite having ruined his country, having 90% of the labour force unemployed, having had tens of thousands of people slaughtered, especially in Matabeleland, for having been forced to abandon the Zimbabwean dollar. for the American dollar, Robert Mugabe was still considered an icon of happy independence.

The untouchable “old lion” appeared, in certain circles of power above ground, as the distant successor, at the same time, of Fidel Castro, for his anti-imperialism, of Nelson Mandela, for his courage to release his people from the apartheid, Nkame Nkrumah for his Pan-Africanism or even Idi Amin Dada, for his sometimes caricatured anti-colonialism.

With the death of Robert Mugabe, it is the old African world that disappears.