Ex Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe was given a heroic state funeral on Saturday (14.09.19) and above all, he will be remembered for his great wit.
The Zimbabwean former president died, aged 95 at a hospital in Singapore on Friday 6th September 2019. He had been ailing for several years, with officials saying his situation deteriorated when he was ousted in a military coup in November 2017.
These are some of his ‘deepest’ quotes that he is famous for.
1) “When your clothes are made of cassava leaves, you don’t take a goat as a friend.”
2) “If you are ugly, you are ugly. Stop talking about inner beauty because men don’t walk around with X-ray machines to see inner beauty.”
3) “When one’s goat gets missing, the aroma of a neighbour’s soup gets suspicious.”
4) “Treat every part of your towel nicely because the part that wipes your buttocks today will wipe your face tomorrow.”
5) “Sometimes you look back at girls you spent money on, rather than send it to your mum, and you realise witchcraft is real.”
6) “If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first.”
7) “What is the problem with deporting white men from Africa? We now have aeroplanes which can take them back quicker than the ships used by their ancestors.”
8) “Cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in a piece of paper with fire on one end and a fool on the other end.”
9) Interviewer: “Mr President, when are you bidding the people of Zimbabwe farewell?”
Robert Mugabe: “Where are they going?”
10) “If I am given a chance to travel through time, I will go back to 1946, find Donald Trump’s father and give him a condom.”
Mugabe who was a teacher by profession ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years. He left two sons and a daughter by second wife Grace.
