{"id":176430563,"date":"2014-01-07T02:51:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T08:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/?p=176430563"},"modified":"2014-01-07T02:51:44","modified_gmt":"2014-01-07T08:51:44","slug":"video-robert-mugabe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/2014\/01\/07\/video-robert-mugabe\/","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: Robert Mugabe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Mugabe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-176430564\" alt=\"080131-F-1644L-121\" src=\"http:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Mugabe-1024x679.jpg\" width=\"553\" height=\"367\" srcset=\"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Mugabe-1024x679.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Mugabe-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/Mugabe-920x610.jpg 920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">Robert Mugabe<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<h1 id=\"watch-headline-title\"><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: xx-large;\">interviewed by Dali Tambo<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: xx-large;\">on People of the South.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"922\" height=\"519\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/djd23O3v2sA?feature=oembed&#038;start=444\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">Veteran cultural affairs television host and presenter Dali Tambo is back on local screens in South Africa with his iconic and widely watched television program\u00a0<em>People of the South.\u00a0<\/em><em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">In one of his latest segments, Tambo sat down with a man people either love to hate, or hate to love, the ever outspoken freedom fighter turned president (for over 30 years), Zimbabwe\u2019s Robert Mugabe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">The mild conversational tone of the interview, which\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/local\/2013\/06\/03\/dali-tambo-defends-mugabe-interview\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">some accuse of being a \u2018PR exercise\u2019<\/span><\/a>\u00a0for Mugabe\u2019s electoral campaign, and that the interview served as a platform to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mg.co.za\/article\/2013-06-03-why-dali-tambos-robert-mugabe-interview-was-wrong\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">glorify President Mugabe\u2019s image<\/span><\/a>, has caused a bit of controversy for Tambo who recently came out to defend the format of his program by saying,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/local\/2013\/06\/03\/dali-tambo-defends-mugabe-interview\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>\u201c<\/em><\/span><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timeslive.co.za\/local\/2013\/06\/03\/dali-tambo-defends-mugabe-interview\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>If you\u2019ve watched any of the shows you will know that we are \u2018people\u2019 of the south, not \u2018politics\u2019 of the south. We deal in people\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">In this 45 minute segment, Tambo begins with a lengthy and in-depth and the two go on to discuss Robert Mugabe\u2019s childhood and upbringing, the politicization of Mugabe as a young intellectual at the legendary For Hare University, the Lancaster House agreement and the subsequent Land Reform executed by Mugabe\u2019s government, as well as more personal and intimate issues such as his marriage to the late Sally Mugabe, and his romance to his now wife and first lady Grace Mugabe.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-size: medium;\">President Mugabe, in discussing how his political track record with the Western world differs from that of Nelson Mandela, where the two of them once shared similar forms of appraisals from Western media and governments, by saying,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/djd23O3v2sA?t=24m10s\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>&#8220;they will praise you only if you are doing things that please them\u2026Mandela has gone a bit too far in doing good to the non-black communities\u2026really in some cases at the expense of them\u2026he has been too good, too much of a saint&#8221;<\/em><\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&gt;via:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dynamicafrica.tumblr.com\/post\/72130304900\/best-posts-of-2013-99-robert-mugabe-on-people-of\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dynamicafrica.tumblr.com\/post\/72130304900\/best-posts-of-2013-99-robert-mugabe-on-people-of<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Robert Mugabe interviewed by Dali Tambo on People of the South. Veteran cultural affairs television host and presenter Dali Tambo is back on local screens in South Africa with his iconic and widely watched television program\u00a0People of the South.\u00a0 In one of his latest segments, Tambo sat down with a man people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[6],"tags":[4,12,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176430563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176430563"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176430563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":176430566,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176430563\/revisions\/176430566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176430563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176430563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kalamu.com\/neogriot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176430563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}