JOHANNESBURG – Tributes are pouring in for former Zimbabwean revolutionary, politician and president, Robert Mugabe.
Mugabe died aged 95 on Friday in Singapore after battling ill health.
He served as Zimbabwean Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and then as President from 1987 to 2017.
Mugabe was ousted from power in Zimbabwe.
Several people took to social media to remember the former Zimbabwean President.
A great idealist. A bad executor. It’s a love hate thing here. To the next life. #RIPMugabe
In 1979 President Robert Mugabe wrote, “only a dead imperialist, is a good one”. #RIPMugabe you were a true revolutionary. Fearless. May we learn from your mistakes, and may we carry your spirit to fight for our Land.
#RobertMugabe “Africans must come first in the development of Africa” #RIPMugabe
The giant tree has fallen!!Africa is poorer! He succumbed to the last beat of the ngoma drum! Go well freedom fighter, tell Nyerere, Nkrumah, Gaddafi, Sobukwe, Mashel and other Pan African ancestors that Africa and her people are not well! #RIPMugabe
This man dedicated his life to empower the lives of black people and Africa in general…Rest in peace my president,I SALUTE#RIPMugabe
“Great souls die,after a period peace blooms,slowly.Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration.Our senses, restored,never to be the same, whisper to us.They existed.They existed.We can be. Be and be⁰better.For they existed”.- Maya Angelou #RIPMugabe #RIPRobertMugabe
“Africa must revert to what it was before imperialists divide it. These are artificial divisions which we, in our pan-African concept will seek to remove” ~ Robert Mugabe#RIPMugabe#SayNoToXenophobiaAttacks #TweetWithMe