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As African dictators go, Omar Bongo was one of the longest-serving. He became the world’s longest-serving ruler when Fidel Castro stepped down in Cuba. He was in power for 41 years.
For all those years, he headed a small African country of...
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I don’t like Arthur Mutambara - for any number of reasons. He reminds me of a younger Mugabe is his speech pattern and I do note that somehow his faction of the MDC -...
made popular Jul 9 2009
All politicians world wide loose their temper in public sometimes or other and Zimbabawe president Robert Mugabe is no different than the rest.
Mr. Mugabe told The...
made popular Jul 7 2009
This week, I received a comment on my main page which accuses me of being a Mugabe supporter, but virtue of the fact that I give my support to Tsvangirai – who has...
made popular Jun 27 2009
Leader of the smaller MDC faction, Arthur Mutambara, has described Robert Mugabe as a ‘hero’. In Zimbabwe, it is common for ZANU PF members to be declared nation...
made popular Jun 22 2009
Robert Mugabe, ‘leader’ of Zimbabwe sells that country to the world as a democracy.
A democracy is where the power of any given State lies with the people, and is...
made popular Jun 18 2009
The ‘unity’ government in Zimbabwe is not working - no matter what Morgan Tsvangirai or Mugabe says. The MDC and ZANU PF hate each other with such vehemence that...
made popular Jun 15 2009
If ever we were looking for proof that Mugabe was not behind the ‘inclusive’ government, then here it is.
Mugabe has tasked Tsvangirai with convincing countries in...
made popular Jun 9 2009
Robert Mugabe on Sunday launched a new pact aimed at tearing down trade barriers across 19 African nations with appeals for external investors and an end to domestic...
made popular Jun 8 2009
It is fourteen months since Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) took the majority in parliament in Zimbabwe. It is almost a year since the...
made popular Jun 2 2009
The first five will return this weekend after the British embassy in Harare arranged for them to be flown home.
The group, which includes former colonial...
made popular May 29 2009
Zimbabwe’s uneasy national unity government reached the 100-day mark on Friday having this week resolved some of the issues that have troubled it from its...
made popular May 23 2009
If you were to think about it, I really don’t need the headline, do I? To any casual observer, the situation in Zimbabwe is dire - not only in normal, daily life (is...
made popular May 18 2009
This morning I received an article written by a member of Zimbabwe’s ‘inclusive government’ in which he discusses the cost of the land grab in Zimbabwe – and...
made popular Apr 28 2009
I wouldn’t normally write three of these things in three consecutive days - unless events in Zimbabwe warranted it.
And this afternoon I happened upon an article...
made popular Apr 23 2009
When a person reads through the various pages on Zimbabwe – and there are quite a few - they would be forgiven in believing that Zimbabwean politics as a mire of...
made popular Apr 20 2009
The new Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, who is also the leader of the larger faction of the Zimbabwean political party, the Movement for Democratic...
made popular Apr 18 2009
This Saturday, the 19th of April 2009, Zimbabwe will be 29 years old. It should be a cause for celebration, but instead it is an excuse for the ZANU PF Mutual...
made popular Apr 15 2009
I am a Zimbabwean. Yes - I may have been born in the United Kingdom, but I was but an infant when my family left to live in (then) Rhodesia. I grew up in Africa, have a...
made popular Apr 14 2009
I have been reading Peter Godwin’s “When A Crocodile Eats The Sun” and found a particular part in it that is not only relevant to the situation on the ground in...
made popular Apr 13 2009
Mugabe firebrand Patrick Chinamasa seems to have painted himself into a corner.
And will, no doubt, somehow wriggle his way free, somehow leaving indelible marks on...
made popular Apr 8 2009
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The Swiss government says it is drafting a new law that will make it easier to return money stolen by deposed dictators and stashed away in Swiss banks.
made popular Dec 5 2008
I was a little bit amazed to read on the internet today that Mugabe will not allow SADC to dictate to him. Or, as he had his spokesman, George Chiramba, put it, “SADC...
made popular Oct 20 2008
Reopening the debate about the horrors of Brazil’s dictatorship is controversial but the country must come to terms with its past
made popular Oct 6 2008
Man Zimbabweans will recognise the humour with which I lace the title of this editorial...
Mugabe is in New York, attending a meeting of the United Nations. I am not...
made popular Sep 24 2008
AP, Paramaribo
The long-awaited trial of a former South American dictator accused of a 1982 massacre began Friday with testimony from a member of the firing squad.Onno Flohr,...
made popular Jul 4 2008
After having watched its closest neighbor suffer in trouble, turmoil and dictatorship for years, India wants a stable Pakistan, which would be good for India, better...
made popular Sep 11 2007
Musharraf who came in as a general than became more of a politician is now turning into a dictator. The serious event that Pakistan experienced recently over the...
made popular Mar 26 2007
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