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So Tunisia - France’s favorite dictatorship - has began a new era of Ben Ali repression. The 73-year-old black-hair-dyed tyrant - in power for 23 years today - recently won a fifth term with a mere 89% of the vote.
Of course, Tunisia has no...
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I have said many times, that for Mugabe to have succeeded as a world leader, he needed to change nothing once he had power in Zimbabwe.
He had the Europeans and the...
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IN a move with damaging implications for investment, Zimbabwe plans to grab a 51% stake in foreign-owned firms within 60 days of the gazetting of the Indigenisation and...
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According to the definition of Wikipedia, “a civil war is a war between factions of citizens of one country (such as in the English Civil War), or else a dispute...
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Mugabe has ruled (?) Zimbabwe for almost thirty years and he considers himself the ‘elder statesman’ of Africa. He believes that he is untouchable and should be...
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So the Southern African Development Conference (SADC) has decided to hold a summit in Maputu on Zimbabwe on Thursday>.
Aren’t we getting a little bit sick of...
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I read this morning that Mugabe has reverted to type and labelled the MDC as an ‘untrustworthy’ partner in the power-sharing government.
“We must no longer...
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Arrogance - “overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors”
Ignorance - “the lack of knowledge or education”
Mugabe is a...
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So Mugabe is showing his true colours again… It’s almost a daily occurrence - but it doesn’t change his attitude, or his intent to sell his lies to the free...
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Manfred Nowak, the UN special rapporteur on torture, has been deported from Zimbabwe a day after being detained by security officials on arrival in Harare, a UN...
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Speaking with a friend on the telephone the other night, we discussed just how difficult it is to maintain a stand against Mugabe’s brutish rule in Zimbabwe – and...
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Hardliners in Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party are trying to split the country’s unity government, says senior official Arthur...
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Simple question. Simple answer. NO!
Today there was an article in the press which reported that the country’s high court might issue a warrant of arrest for security...
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ZANU PF comes in all shapes and sizes. There are a variety of different bodies that masquerade as one thing, but are, in reality, ZANU PF institutions, bodies and...
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Mugabe and his cohorts do not know when it is time to stop anything.
Not that long ago there was the huge furore about Nestle buying milk in huge quantities from...
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Following the re-arrest of the Deputy Minister for Agriculture-designate, Roy Bennett, on an indictment for banditry last week, the larger Movement for Democratic...
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I have been writing about Zimbabwe/Mugabe for almost six years now – and I would hate to know how many hours I have spent in research, or how many words I have...
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I had an interesting chat on Skype with a good friend who is also very interested in the situation in Zimbabwe.
Friend: Is Mugabe going to do a go-it-alone?
Me: Looks...
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Following the return to prison of Deputy Minister for Agriculture designate, Roy Bennett, the MDC top brass headed into a caucus to decide their future in Zimbabwean...
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I was deeply saddened late yesterday afternoon when I learned that Mugabe’s legal gurus had played their trump card, indicted Bennett on banditry and terrorism...
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Having just completed the daily posting on my main page, “The Bearded Man”, I was struck by the number of cases before the courts in Zimbabwe that have...
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Venezuela’s authoritarian leader is not cutting his own power, just the literal power of millions of Venezuelans. The majority who voted for Chavez twice and for...
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Tunisians and the world were on the edge of their seats as the election results on October 25, 2009, took longer than last time to be reported. Was this a sign that the...
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All the students at Luolang Elementary School, a yellow-and-orange concrete structure off a winding mountain road in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in...
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Hugo Chavez’s support has declined in the polls as many Venezuelans say they are fed up with 27 percent inflation, a stagnant economy, faulty public services —...
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He was the man who saved Hugo Chávez when all seemed lost. A coup had ousted Venezuela’s president and buried, it seemed, his leftist experiment.
General Raúl...
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Tunisia’s tyrant Ben Ali is one of the most paranoid and insecure leaders in the Arab world. He was prime minister under former President Bourguiba and then...
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Iran has shut down three daily newspapers critical of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the president, according to reports by state-run news agencies.
While no reason was given,...
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Venezuela’s autocrat Hugo Chavez has gone after the opposition, labor unions, media, term limits, courts, foreign businesses, domestic businesses and anything...
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For years, much of the debate over Zimbabwe has been preoccupied with how much, and how publicly, to criticize its despotic longtime leader Robert Mugabe. In the past,...
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A member of Zimbabwe Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party has been beaten to death by soldiers for playing a song praising the premier, his Movement for...
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Idi Amin was one of the most bloody of late 20th century dictators. A African-nationalist general whom ethnically cleansed Uganda of Indian residents, Amin massacred...
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Across Latin America, presidents are pulling strings and pressuring lawmakers to change their constitutions to allow for multiple presidential terms — a trend that...
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The passage given below is taken from George Orwell’s famous dystopian novel “1984.” (Part 2, chapter 9)
Given this background, one could infer, if one did not...
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In October of 1997, a white-haired 63-year old Irishman named Sean Garland paid a visit to Moscow in the company of an acquaintance subsequently identified only by the...
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Chavez’s government is “moving forcefully to silence critics,” said the unclassified U.S. analysis prepared by the Open Source Center, a U.S....
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I read on the internet today how a man was beaten up by three uniformed soldiers when his mobile phone rang and the ring tone was supposedly ‘anti-Mugabe’.
The...
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Mugabe suffers from selective amnesia. He often, and to his advantage, forgets that his rise to power was enabled by the West - yet almost every day, he ridicules and...
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For the last twenty-nine years, Robert Gabriel Mugabe has ruled Zimbabwe. That means that there are fully grown people in Zimbabwe who have known nothing more than...
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