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South Africans will kick down a statue of a dead white man but won’t even attempt to slap a live one. Yet they can stone to death a black man simply because he’s a foreigner

Robert Mugabe

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Robert Mugabe
Age: 95 †
Born: 1924
Born: February 21
Died: 2019
Died: September 6
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President Of Zimbabwe
Kutama
Zimbabwe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe
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