The former leader of Zimbabwe, who had been receiving treatment in Singapore for poor health, has died at the age of 95.
The controversial figure, who many saw as a tyrant, was ousted in a military coup in 2017 after 37 years in power.
Bishop Joe Aldred, a Pentecostal minister from Churches Together in England told Premier he thought it was important to remember other aspects of Mugabe’s reign.
“I refuse to see him just through the lens he’s portrayed through in the West, particularly here in Britain, and I refuse to portray him just through the things that he will have done wrong.
“Can we please recognise with some balance who this man was? Why he is something of a hero for me is not because of the bad things he has done, but because of the good things he has done, his Afro centricity his pan Africanism and his sense of wanting his people liberated from the terrible regime of apartheid.”
In 1964, Mugabe was imprisoned for more than a decade for criticising the then white minority Rhodesian government.
16 years later he led Zimbabwe to independence and was instated as Prime Minister, and later President, of the African nation.
Bishop Aldred went on to say that Christians in particular need to be careful not to judge, saying: “I am in no way making excuses for the wrong that Robert Mugabe has done. I’m also saying he has done an enormous amount of good.
“We have to ask…
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