{"id":5256,"date":"2013-03-02T16:33:13","date_gmt":"2013-03-02T16:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meeseeks:5080\/blog\/?p=5256"},"modified":"2024-04-30T12:44:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T12:44:38","slug":"vale-john-makumbe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/vale-john-makumbe\/","title":{"rendered":"Vale:  John Makumbe"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>This post is a humble tribute to Zimbabwean political scientist, John Makumbe (1949-2013), who has just died.\u00a0 I first met him in Zimbabwe in 1981, and once traveled with him to Botswana.\u00a0 We had many conversations on religion, where we often disagreed greatly.\u00a0 He became an outspoken and fearless opponent of Robert Mugabe&#8217;s corrupt regime, and had been planning to stand for election for his home region, Buhera, to the Zimbabwe House of Assembly at the forthcoming national elections.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Telegraph (London) obituary is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/9835199\/Professor-John-Makumbe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, The Zimbabwe Mail <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thezimbabwemail.com\/zimbabwe\/15614-professor-john-makumbe-laid-to-rest.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and Nehanda Radio <a href=\"http:\/\/nehandaradio.com\/2013\/01\/28\/obituary-for-the-late-professor-john-makumbe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is a humble tribute to Zimbabwean political scientist, John Makumbe (1949-2013), who has just died.\u00a0 I first met him in Zimbabwe in 1981, and once traveled with him to Botswana.\u00a0 We had many conversations on religion, where we often disagreed greatly.\u00a0 He became an outspoken and fearless opponent of Robert Mugabe&#8217;s corrupt regime, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-obits","p1","y2013","m03","d02","h16"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12538,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5256\/revisions\/12538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vukutu.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}