Awarded knighthood
Mugabe is made a Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Bath on the advice of Prime Minister Major. It entitles him to use the letters KCB, but not to use the title “Sir.”
Honorary degree
University of Massachusetts awards Robert Mugabe an honorary law degree. for his “exemplary devotion to social justice. University president:
[Mugabe’s] gentle firmness in the face of anger and intellectual approach to matters which inflame the emotions of others, are hallmarks of quiet integrity.
Edinburgh University honorary degree
University of Edinburgh awards Mugabe the Honorary Degree of Doctoris Honoris Causa for services to education in Africa.
Honoured not only for his extraordinary intellectual discipline and energy but for those qualities of statesmanship which made him one of the great figures of modern Africa.