LEE Kuan Yew, the leader who transformed Singapore within a generation from a tiny barren colonial outpost without natural resources into a prosperous modern city-state with some of the best economic indicators in the world, died this week aged 91 like President Robert Mugabe.
Lee, also like Mugabe, had led his country to independence and thus became its founding father. Similarly, he was also a lawyer having trained at Cambridge. Mugabe did his legal studies by correspondence with the University of London.
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