Robert Mugabe Part 1: The Young Scholar
Real Dictators
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Robert Mugabe's Prison Life
In 1965, the Rhodesian Front issues a unilateral declaration of independence. Mugabe petitions Prime Minister Smith for a temporary release so that he can travel to Ghana to bury his son. The prison authorities are confident that he can be trusted to return, but Smith personally rejects the request. Sally is left to grieve alone. For several days he barely speaks to the comrades locked up with him. But it's what happens next that stings almost as much as the loss itself. He weeps inconsolably as he's led back to his cell.
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