Robert Mugabe’s 37-Year-Old Political Life In Pictures

The resistance leader who rose to lead Zimbabwe for 37 years



© AP Robert Mugabe, leader of the Zimbabwe African National Union, left, arrives in Geneva, Switzerland in October 1976 for a conference on Rhodesia




Mr Mugabe, Rhodesia’s president-designate, with Sally, his Ghanaian wife, in the rose garden of their bungalow in Salisbury in March 1980 when he was working to form a government after his party’s landslide electoral victory



Margaret Thatcher, the British prime minister, greets Mr Mugabe at 10 Downing Street in May 1980



Mr Mugabe outside African National Congress offices in Harare that were bombed by South African special forces in May 1986


Queen Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh with Mr Mugabe before the Zimbabwean leader reviewed a guard of honour in London in May 1994


President Bill Clinton gestures while talking to Mr Mugabe at the White House after their Oval Office meeting in May 1995


Nelson Mandela, left, is welcomed by Mr Mugabe after the South African president arrived in Harare for a state visit in May 1997


Tony Blair, the UK prime minister, chats with Mr Mugabe at the Commonwealth Summit in Edinburgh in 1997


Mr Mugabe is sworn in for a sixth term in office in Harare in June 2008 after being declared winner of a one-man election


Mr Mugabe prepares to address the UN General Assembly in September 2016 in New York


Mr Mugabe kisses his wife and first lady Grace during the 37th Independence Day celebrations in Harare in April this year

Credit, dailymail.co.uk: Robert Mugabe married his first wife Sally in 1961, he was a 37-year-old liberal nationalist who wanted to make his country - then Southern Rhodesia - a model multiracial democracy. 



credit, buzzsouthafrica.com Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace on their wedding day


Robert Mugabe And Grace Marufu ‘s Wedding, Mugabe on August 17, 1996, officially married Grace Marufu, his former secretary amid some controversy, at an elaborate Catholic wedding.
“The Press were banned from the Robert Mugabe and Grace Marufu wedding which saw some journalist convicted for speculating about the expectations of the wedding” Credit: thezimbabwenewslive.com

© Getty Robert Mugabe kisses his wife Grace in April 2017


Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is kissed by his wife Grace at his 80th birthday party


Robert Mugabe with his daughter Bona Photo: AFP


Robert Mugabe Sleeping At Buhari’s Inauguration





The 90-year-old leader Robert Mugabe is helped to his feet by aides (Image: AP)