Robert Mugabe: Coming Soon on Real Dictators…
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Speaker 1 April 1980.
Speaker 1 We're in Zimbabwe, in southeastern Africa.
Speaker 1 At a packed football stadium, Bob Marley and the Whalers step out on stage.
Speaker 1 The crowd goes wild.
Speaker 1 The country has just become Africa's newest independent nation.
Speaker 1 The majority black population has finally been liberated from British and local white minority rule.
Speaker 1 Some 40,000 people fill the pitch and line the terraces.
Speaker 1 Among them is a wiry 56-year-old man dressed in a crisp tailored suit.
Speaker 1 In the eyes of many, Prime Minister Robert Mugabe stands here tonight as a freedom fighter. But over 37 years, he will preside over a government of corruption and brutality.
Speaker 1 lining the pockets of his cronies while torturing and abusing his own people.
Speaker 1 A bookish intellectual who comes to wield tyrannical power.
Speaker 1 A leader who will cling on until the age of 93, even after he drives Africa's most prosperous country to economic ruin.
Speaker 1 What events, what history formed this dictator?
Speaker 1 And what say those who observed him in person and endured his regime right up until its dramatic end?
Speaker 1 The Mugabe Story, coming soon from Noisa.
