{"id":2774,"date":"2019-09-07T12:45:40","date_gmt":"2019-09-07T12:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=2774"},"modified":"2019-09-07T12:46:23","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T12:46:23","slug":"mugabe-is-a-legend-of-african-liberation-struggle-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/mugabe-is-a-legend-of-african-liberation-struggle-mahama","title":{"rendered":"Mugabe is a legend of African Liberation struggle &#8211; Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the late Robert Mugabe as a \u201clegend of the African Liberation struggle\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>According to Mr Mahama, the longest serving\u00a0Zimbabwean President will always be remembered as a great freedom fighter despite his flaws later in life.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Commiserating with the family and the people of Zimbabwe, Mr Mahama, in Facebook post wrote: &#8220;Sad to hear the passing of a legend of the African Liberation struggle, Comrade Robert Mugabe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Despite his flaws in later years, he will always be remembered as a great fighter for freedom and a dedicated Pan Africanist&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will be remembered for the great strides Zimbabwe made in education and healthcare in the immediate post-independence period,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Zimbabwe\u2019s founding leader Robert Mugabe died in Singapore aged 95, two sources in touch with his family told ZimLive on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe had been battling ill-health and President Emmerson Mnangagwa told a Cabinet meeting two weeks ago that doctors had \u201ctaken him off life support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He became the first prime minister of the newly independent Zimbabwe after elections in February 1980.<\/p>\n<p>Articulate and smartly dressed, Mugabe came to power commanding the respect of a nation. He had a strong head start, inheriting a country with a stable economy, solid infrastructure and vast natural resources.<\/p>\n<p>Mugabe, ousted from power in a military coup in November 2017, was being treated in Singapore since April.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama has described the late Robert Mugabe as a \u201clegend of the African Liberation struggle\u201d. According to Mr Mahama, the longest serving\u00a0Zimbabwean President will always be remembered as a great freedom fighter despite his flaws later in life. 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