Robert Mugabe is the president of Zimbabwe, whose policies include the controversial land-reform program which was criticised by the press due to the human rights violations that resulted from it. He has been criticised by the worlds media for his uncompromising opposition to LGBT rights in Africa, his racially separatist policies, and his involvement in the Second Congo War.

Labelled a terrorist by the world's press, knighted by Queen Elizabeth and subsequently suspended from the Commonwealth, Mugabe remains in power after 30 years.

This Q&A follows a screening of the documentary, Robert Mugabe...what happened?, a film which explores Mugabe's Shakespearean rise and fall through interviews with some of his associates, and a collection of archive material that powerfully evokes his reign.

The film's director, Simon Bright (co-director Afrika Eye Film Festival), was joined by Eddy Mushayanama (Movement for Democratic Change) and Forward Maisokwadzo (Bristol Zimbabwe Association) to discuss the effects of Mugabe's reign on the people of South Africa and Zimbabwe.

This event took place as part of Afrika Eye 2011, Bristol's African Film Festival.

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Robert Mugabe...what happened?

Posted on Sat 29 Oct 2011.

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