Former President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe is today celebrating his 95th birthday and it’s a public holiday for all Zimbabweans.

Mugabe’s birthday holiday was first commemorated in 2018.

The holiday was mooted by the ruling ZANU-PF youth league to honour their then icon, whose birthday had since the 1980s been celebrated as the 21st February Movement.

Mugabe led the Zimbabwean government for 37 years, having started off as Prime Minister in 1980 and becoming Executive President in 1987.

His last Cabinet approved the holiday in August 2017, just three months before he was toppled by Mnangagwa in a military-assisted operation.

On the day he was inaugurated as the country’s new leader on Nov. 24, 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa gazetted the Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day, which falls on Mugabe’s birthday on Feb. 21.