, who had been receiving treatment in a Singapore hospital for months before he died on Friday aged 95, dominated Zimbabwe politics for almost four decades – from independence in 1980 until he was removed by his own army in November 2017.
Chris Sambo, a former soccer administrator who used to arrange matches for Mugabe in his home village of Kutama, said the southern African country’s Catholic community had lost one of its most important members. Tsitsi Samukange, another churchgoer, said that when Mugabe attended mass with Grace, people could not park nearby for security reasons. She praised him as a resolute leader who fought for his country.
“You know, when you fight, in a fight sometimes you lose your teeth, ? And we became poorer. But that’s a fight and he did it and we should give him that.”