ZimbabweRobert Mugabe was Zimbabwe's first prime minister from 1980 and its president from 1987 until a military takeover in 2017. He expanded education, backed seizures of white-owned farms from 2000, and presided over the Gukurahundi killings and hyperinflation; he died in 2019.
In the 12 Axes register, Robert Mugabe leans hardest on Democratic – Autocratic: Autocratic 95%; the register median is Democratic 68%.
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Where Robert Mugabe sits on each of the twelve axes, in four categories. The label is our estimate; the line under it says why.
Centralized
Centralized power in presidency and ZANU-PF
Autocracy
Ruled 1980–2017 until the 2017 military coup
Authoritarian
Gukurahundi campaign killed thousands in Matabeleland, 1982–87
Nationalist
Framed rule around anti-colonial nationalism
Military-Focused
Deployed troops in Congo war from 1998
Monoculturalist
Policy of racial redress against white farmers
Social Democratic
Seized white-owned farms from 2000
Interventionism
Indigenization rules forced local ownership
Protectionist
Withdrew Zimbabwe from Commonwealth in 2003
Spiritual
Devout Catholic since his mission-school youth
Traditionalist
Condemned homosexuality publicly
Neutral
Took no distinctive technology position
Set against the median of all 124 figures in the register.
Democratic – Autocratic
On Democratic – Autocratic, Robert Mugabe is at Autocratic 95%. The register median is Democratic 68%.
Acceleration – Bioconservative
On Acceleration – Bioconservative, Robert Mugabe is at balanced 50%, almost the register median of balanced 50%.
Closeness is 100 minus the root-mean-square distance on all twelve axes.
Sources: en.wikipedia.org · www.britannica.com
Portrait: Government of Zimbabwe, taken by Joseph Nyadzayo as Presidential Photographer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, cropped and resized.
The tiers on this page are our estimates from public positions and policies. They are not an official statement by the person or the government concerned. Two independent passes scored every axis and a third settled the differences. How the register works. Found a mistake? Write to [email protected].
