LETTER: How is Mugabe a hero?
African leaders’ lionisation shows why continent is a basket case
Described by one political analyst as a president “who destroyed everything he built”, one is reminded of the cartoon picturing Robert Mugabe saying: “My work here is done” while in the background a country is in ruins, people are dying and buildings are in flames.
Not so, according to African leaders, who variously describe him as: “An icon of liberation ... who dedicated his life to the emancipation and empowerment of his people (Zimbabwe’s president); a “champion of Africa’s cause” (SA’s president); “Mugabe’s sacrifices in struggling for the political and economic emancipation of his people will always be remembered for posterity” (Nigeria’s president); “His place in the annals of Africa’s political history is well assured” (Zambia’s president); “We must not allow our enemies to tell us how to remember him. We know our heroes” (Julius Malema)...
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