2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état
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The 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état was a bloodless military coup that took place in Zimbabwe on 14 to 21 November 2017, when Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was removed as president and party leader o
A Zimbabwe Defence Forces APC in downtown Harare during the coup
Robert Mugabe and Grace Mugabe in 2013
Morgan Tsvangirai
Citizens in the streets of Harare, 19 November 2017
Robert Mugabe
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Robert Gabriel Mugabe was a Zimbabwean revolutionary, politician, and dictator who led Zimbabwe from 1980 until 2017. He served as the country's first Prime Minister from 1980 to 1987 and as its secon
2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état
…The 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état was a bloodless military coup that took place in Zimbabwe on 14 to 21 November 2017, when Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe was removed as president and party leader of ZANU–PF and was replaced by Emmerson Mnangagwa. On the evening of 14 November 2017, elements of the Zimbabwe…
Official portrait, 1995
Mugabe was inspired by the example set by Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah.
Joshua Nkomo became one of the leading figures of resistance to white minority rule in Southern Rhodesia.
While Mugabe was imprisoned, Ian Smith became leader of Rhodesia.