Question

how can you say that the rule of robert Mugabe in Zimbabwe was not independent?

Answer 1

Because he used unfair means to stay in power.

Answer 2

Having dominated Zimbabwe's politics for nearly four decades, Mugabe has been a controversial and divisive figure. He has been praised as a revolutionary hero of the African liberation struggle who helped to free Zimbabwe from British colonialism, imperialism, and white-minority rule. Conversely, he has been derided as a dictatorresponsible for economic mismanagement and widespread corruption whose regime has perpetrated anti-white racial discrimination, human rights abuses, suppression of political critics and crimes against humanity.