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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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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...
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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...
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...
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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...
made popular Nov 3 2009
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...
made popular Oct 27 2009
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...
made popular Oct 26 2009
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...
made popular Oct 23 2009
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...
made popular Oct 23 2009
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...
made popular Oct 19 2009
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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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