Robert Gabriel Mugabe, Politician, revolutionary leader, former prime minister, and President of Zimbabwe | Born February 21, 1924 | Kutama, Southern Rhodesia (now Kutama, Zimbabwe) | Silent Generation | Chinese Zodiac: Rat (Wood Rat element for 1924 birth year) | Zodiac Sign: Pisces (Sun in Pisces for February 21) | Age in 2026: Deceased (would have been 102 in 2026) | Marital Status: Married (to Sally Hayfron from 1961 until her death in 1992; married Grace Marufu, later Grace Mugabe, in 1996) |Children: Multiple children, including Michael Nhamodzenyika (with Sally Mugabe, deceased in childhood) and children with Grace Mugabe, often named as Bona, Robert Jr., and Chatunga Bellarmine| Description: Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary, schoolteacher-turned-politician, and founding leader of independent Zimbabwe who rose from a mission-school background to become prime minister in 1980 and executive president from 1987 after leading the Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) against white-minority rule and British colonial authority. A Black nationalist with a Marxist orientation, he was initially celebrated across Africa for his role in the liberation struggle and for expanding education and health services. However, over time, he established a de facto one-party rule marked by repression of opposition, controversial land reform that involved violent seizures of white-owned farms, economic mismanagement, hyperinflation, and international isolation, until he was forced to resign in November 2017 under military and party pressure. He died in Singapore on September 6, 2019, aged 95, after a period of illness, with reports indicating he had been receiving treatment there, and his legacy remains deeply polarizing, seen by some as a liberation icon and by others as an autocratic ruler whose later policies impoverished his country