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At 86, Mugabe is now almost twice the expected longevity of male Zimbabweans, which is pegged at 46 years of age. Given that he...
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Although Zimbabwe’s internal political situation has improved marginally, the millions of Zimbabweans who have fled the country’s economic collapse continue to...
made popular Nov 28 2009
Robert Gabriel Mugabe is a man of extremes. His reactions are very seldom ‘middle of the road’ – no, he prefers the sublime or the ridiculous. Nothing in...
made popular Nov 27 2009
I note the basic stalemate within the ‘power-sharing’ government in Harare, and the lack of any progress. South African President Jacob Zuma was supposed to...
made popular Nov 26 2009
Last year we all had to go through the mediation by Thabo Mbeki of the Zimbabwean governmental crisis, and although the former South African President was able to have...
made popular Nov 25 2009
Mugabe has got his wires crossed (again) somewhere. Whilst he pleads with the free world to release buckets loads of money to enable the rebuilding of Zimbabwe, he also...
made popular Nov 24 2009
The Southern African Development Conference (SADC) set a 15 days deadline for Mugabe.s ZANU PF, Tsvangirai’s MDC-T and Mutambara’s MDC-M to begin negotiations to...
made popular Nov 23 2009
The tempo of events in Zimbabwe continue to gather pace – and all of it has a more serious nature than happenings of late.
Which begs the question: What is Robert...
made popular Nov 20 2009
Robert Mugabe once threatened that he would rule Zimbabwe ‘from beyond the grave’. Well, it looks like some of his supporters have started without him!
I am 46...
made popular Nov 19 2009
Just a few days ago, one of Mugabe’s senior ministers gave a rare interview to ABC.
When asked about sanctions, Mutasa boasted: “I am one of the targeted...
made popular Nov 18 2009
I have written about Zimbabwe for nearly five years now. I do not believe that anything I have to say is ground breaking or headline making. But I do have a considered...
made popular Nov 18 2009
If anyone were to use one word to describe the judicial system in Zimbabwe, we might hope for words like ‘fair’ and ‘just’ - perhaps even a word...
made popular Nov 17 2009
What is Mutasa smoking? It has addled his brain!
In a rare interview with ABC, Mutasa indicated that Tsvangirai should answer to Robert Mugabe and should be grateful...
made popular Nov 16 2009
In the free world, we manage to live quite easily from one day to the next. We also have a little bit of money that allows us to enjoy life a little more, whilst we...
made popular Nov 13 2009
Whenever the crisis in Zimbabwe looks to be in danger of collapsing the fragile unity government, the principals call on SADC - who invite them all to a...
made popular Nov 11 2009
While the majority of Zimbabweans the world over watching events play out in a criminal court in Harare, where MDC politician Roy Bennett is answering to charges that...
made popular Nov 10 2009
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...
made popular Nov 9 2009
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...
made popular Nov 7 2009
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...
made popular Nov 6 2009
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...
made popular Nov 4 2009
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...
made popular Nov 3 2009
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The Gukurahundi of the early to mid 1980s was not perhaps Mugabe’s finest hour, and he has admitted that it was ‘a moment of madness’... A moment that...
made popular Jul 27 2009
The latest offering from Zimbabwe is that any probe which is called for is stopped at source, prevented from happening, or just plain doesn’t happen.
This is a habit...
made popular Jul 15 2009
When the Gukurahundi was finally put to an end with the signing of the Peace Accord between Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo of ZAPU in 1987, an enquiry was ordered into the...
made popular Jul 3 2009
I looked closely at Mugabe’s ‘hand of friendship’ speech this week, and realised that it is just the same old rubbish regurgitated with a few tweaks to make it...
made popular Feb 16 2009
Robert Mugabe has spent the last week taking two steps backwards and one step forward - and he will view this pantomime as a success.
There must come a time in any...
made popular Sep 7 2008
We have all watched the latest moves by Mugabe and his ‘government’ and we also see how he intends to treat the two different factions of the MDC.
But how many of...
made popular Jul 29 2008
I have often stated that for Mugabe to have made Zimbabwe a success, he needed to have changed nothing. But when he came to power in 1980, whilst on the outside he was...
made popular Jul 12 2008
When Robert Mugabe ‘won’ the position of Prime Minister of a new, ‘democratic’ Zimbabwe in April 1980, we all clapped and cheered with the best of them.
(I put...
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