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20 Reasons Why MUGABE’s Legacy Is Uncontested.
1. Unchaining the African mind from a position of servitude to one of self-belief, self-assertion and equity with other races.
This he achieved by asserting African rights to humanity, dignity and equality as enshrined in the UN Charter and Human Rights Declaration, after he implemented the Land Reform and indigenization policies in Zimbabwe, restoring the inheritance and property rights of internally displaced and dispossessed Zimbabweans.
2. Reinstating Black Rights To Property.
Through these policies he set a precedence that humanity starts with people (including previously oppressed peoples) assuming their social, cultural and economic rights to sovereignty, property, control of their national resources, self determination and not just the right to vote.
Rights previously denied black peoples by slavery, colonialism and neo-colonialism, to the extent that prevailing international legal customs, adjudicate property rights based only on the prescriptions of the 1453 Doctrine Of Discovery (colonial law) and the African colonial dispossession that followed this law. Through this custom, the western world treats non-Europeans as chattel that is not entitled to property rights.
Mugabe delegitimized this racist and immoral order, as a result, today South Africans…
