Kuala Lampur, Sept. 8 -- A dictator died in Singapore last week. Of course the rich and powerful from across South-east and even South Asia are attracted to our world class medical facilities but the man in question was from even further afield.

Robert Gabriel Mugabe, born in Southern Rhodesia. He struggled against white minority rule in Rhodesia and would become the first president of independent Zimbabwe.

He died in Singapore at the Gleneagles Hospital on the 6th of September, 2019 -- aged 95.

Mugabe's was an exceptional life trajectory. Born into rural poverty, he would become a school teacher, a political activist, a guerrilla fighter, a politician and then post-independence leader.

Initially a popular and conciliatory leader pres...