{"id":10056,"date":"2012-04-19T04:21:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-19T02:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/timeline-a-look-at-robert-mugabes-30-years-in-power\/"},"modified":"2012-04-19T04:21:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-19T02:21:00","slug":"timeline-a-look-at-robert-mugabes-30-years-in-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/timeline-a-look-at-robert-mugabes-30-years-in-power\/","title":{"rendered":"TIMELINE-A look at Robert Mugabe&#8217;s 30 years in power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">April 18<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Here is a look at Zimbabwe&#8217;s President<br \/>\nRobert Mugabe, the 88-year-old who has ruled the southern<br \/>\nAfrican country for more than three decades.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The country celebrated its independence day on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1980 &#8211; Robert Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF party wins independence<br \/>\nelections. He takes office as prime minister on April 18.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1982 &#8211; Mugabe deploys North Korean-trained troops to crush<br \/>\nrebellion by ex-ZAPU guerrillas. Government forces are accused<br \/>\nof killing thousands of civilians.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1987 &#8211; Mugabe and ZAPU&#8217;s Joshua Nkomo sign a unity accord,<br \/>\nleading to the integration of PF-ZAPU and ZANU-PF.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1990 &#8211; ZANU-PF and Mugabe win parliamentary and presidential<br \/>\nelections.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>1998 &#8211; An economic crisis marked by high interest rates and<br \/>\ninflation provokes riots and increasing support for the<br \/>\nZimbabwean Congress of Trade Unions led by Morgan Tsvangirai.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; The opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is<br \/>\nformed and Tsvangirai is appointed leader in 1999.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>2000 &#8211; Thousands of independence war veterans and their<br \/>\nallies, backed by the government, seize white-owned farms,<br \/>\nsaying the land was illegally appropriated by white settlers.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Here is a look at Zimbabwe&#8217;s President Robert Mugabe, the 88-year-old who has ruled the southern African country for more than three decades. The country celebrated its independence day on Wednesday: 1980 &#8211; Robert Mugabe&#8217;s ZANU-PF party wins independence elections. He takes office as prime minister on April 18. 1982 &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}