Robert Gabriel Mugabe is the president of Zimbabwe. He was born on 21 February 1924 near the Kutama Jesuit Mission in the Zvimba District Northwest of Salisbury in Southern Rhodesia to a Malawian father Gabriel atibili and a Shona mother, Bona. He was the third of six children. He had two older brothers, Michael and Raphael, and a younger brother Donato. Both his older brothers died when he was young, leaving Robert Mugabe and his younger brother Donato who died in 2007 and two younger sisters, Sabina Mugabe who died in 2010 and Bridgette Mugabe the only surviving sibling of president Mugabe. His father, a carpenter, abandoned the Mugabe family in 1934 after Michael died, in search of work in Bulawayo.
President Robert Mugabe studied at Marist Brothers and Jesuit schools, and Kutama College, headed by an Irish Priest, Father Jerome O'Hea, who took him under his wing. He qualified as a teacher, but left to study at Fort Hare in South Africa graduated in 1951. He then studied at Salisbury in (1953), Gwelo (1954) and Tanzania (1955 - 1957). Originally graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Fort Hare in 1951. Mugabe subsequently earned six further degrees through distance learning including a Bachelor of Administration and Bachelor of Education from the University of South Africa and a Bachelor of Science. Bachelors of Laws, Master of Laws, and Master of Science, all from the University of London External Programme.
After graduating Mugabe lectured at Chalimbana Teacher Training College in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) from 1955 - 1958, thereafter he taught at Apowa secondary school in Takoradi, Ghana after completing his local certification at Achimota school (1958 - 1960), where he met Sally Hayfron, whom he married in April 1961. Sally Hayfron died in 1992 from a chronic kidney ailment. Their only son, Michael Nhamodzenyika Mugabe, born 27 September 1963, died on 26 December 1966 from cerebral malaria in Ghana where Sally was working while Mugabe was in prison.
On 17 August 1996, Mugabe married his former secretary, Grace Mafuru, 41 years his junior. President Mugabe and his wife Grace have 3 children, one girl and two boys. Bona Mugabe, Robert Peter Mugabe Jr., and Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe. Mugabe has also a stepson with Grace Mugabe, Russell Goreraza.
President Robert Mugabe studied at Marist Brothers and Jesuit schools, and Kutama College, headed by an Irish Priest, Father Jerome O'Hea, who took him under his wing. He qualified as a teacher, but left to study at Fort Hare in South Africa graduated in 1951. He then studied at Salisbury in (1953), Gwelo (1954) and Tanzania (1955 - 1957). Originally graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Fort Hare in 1951. Mugabe subsequently earned six further degrees through distance learning including a Bachelor of Administration and Bachelor of Education from the University of South Africa and a Bachelor of Science. Bachelors of Laws, Master of Laws, and Master of Science, all from the University of London External Programme.
After graduating Mugabe lectured at Chalimbana Teacher Training College in Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) from 1955 - 1958, thereafter he taught at Apowa secondary school in Takoradi, Ghana after completing his local certification at Achimota school (1958 - 1960), where he met Sally Hayfron, whom he married in April 1961. Sally Hayfron died in 1992 from a chronic kidney ailment. Their only son, Michael Nhamodzenyika Mugabe, born 27 September 1963, died on 26 December 1966 from cerebral malaria in Ghana where Sally was working while Mugabe was in prison.
On 17 August 1996, Mugabe married his former secretary, Grace Mafuru, 41 years his junior. President Mugabe and his wife Grace have 3 children, one girl and two boys. Bona Mugabe, Robert Peter Mugabe Jr., and Chatunga Bellarmine Mugabe. Mugabe has also a stepson with Grace Mugabe, Russell Goreraza.
President Robert Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe and his son Robert Jr.
President Robert Mugabe on his 85th Birthday Party with his family
President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe
with their children Robert Junior na Chatunga.
President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe
and their son Chatunga Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe
Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe at the graduation of their daughter, Bona Mugabe at City University of Hongkong, Hongkong
