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“SADC is now fed up with President Robert Mugabe and the regional leaders have reportedly decided to let the octogenarian go it alone should he decide to proceed with elections without a clear roadmap for free and fair elections.
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“President Robert Mugabe has intensified his fight against an emerging consensus among SADC leaders for him to go, by among other tactics, trying to sideline and...
made popular May 24 2011
The situation in Zimbabwe is clearly out of control, but this does not make the SADC appointed mediator, Jacob Zuma, move with any alacrity in doing anything to resolve...
made popular Mar 30 2011
Recent articles on the internet suggest that Mugabe is about to have Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change arrested upon his return to...
made popular Mar 28 2011
I have noticed that when cases come to court in Southern Africa, if the subject matter of the case is delicate and in danger of exposing the governments for their...
made popular Nov 23 2010
There can be no doubt that former South African President, Thabo Mbeki, and the current incumbent, Jacob Zuma, have been remiss in their remit to act as mediator in the...
made popular Nov 17 2010
President Jacob Zuma took a hard line on the ANC’s recent woes on Monday, setting the tone for the rest of the party’s five-day national general...
made popular Sep 21 2010
South Africa wants to be considered among the leaders of the developing world along with Brazil, Russia, India and China, its president said, pushing for membership of...
made popular Aug 26 2010
South Africa’s largest opposition party said on Sunday it would merge with a small party but analysts said it was unlikely to pose a major challenge to the...
made popular Aug 16 2010
South Africa’s president says six of the country’s traditional monarchies are being abolished.
The country’s 13 black ethnic kingships were used to...
made popular Aug 2 2010
The SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC) has found a Zapiro cartoon depicting President Jacob Zuma about to rape “Lady Justice” did not constitute hate...
made popular Jun 25 2010
Jetsetter and globe trotter Robert Mugabe has reportedly begged Jacob Zuma to invite him to the FIFA World Cup opening today.
Bear in mind that this is the man who...
made popular Jun 11 2010
South African President Jacob Zuma is in India on his first state visit to Asia since he took office in May last year.
The two countries want to boost their trade and...
made popular Jun 3 2010
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has revealed that he is HIV-negative.
Launching a government programme of counselling and testing, he said he had decided to...
made popular Apr 26 2010
The suggestion that the negotiations have stalled is really quite silly. Negotiations haven’t stalled - they have stopped!
Mugabe had agreed on a number of...
made popular Apr 13 2010
Terreblanche, 69, was fiercely opposed to the end of apartheid in South Africa, which led to the ANC winning the country’s first democratic elections in 1994 and...
made popular Apr 6 2010
I don’t know whether Malema’s ‘confronting’ Mugabe to advise him to back off on the violence in the country will actually achieve anything. You...
made popular Apr 6 2010
Following the murder of white supremacist Eugene Tere’blanche in South Africa, SADC mediator Jacob Zuma has a rather full plate and things like the Zimbabwe...
made popular Apr 5 2010
South African President Jacob Zuma called for calm on Sunday after the killing of white far-right leader Eugene Terre’blanche in a suspected pay dispute with...
made popular Apr 5 2010
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Zimbabwe’s political parties failed to meet a Monday deadline set by South African President Jacob Zuma to resolve a power-sharing dispute that threatens to tear...
made popular Mar 30 2010
President Jacob Zuma said yesterday that Uganda’s recent discoveries of commercial oil reserves present new investment opportunities for South African companies...
made popular Mar 26 2010
“Finer details of South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma mediation trip to Zimbabwe are starting to emerge. Last week, Zuma spent two days in Harare locked up in...
made popular Mar 23 2010
South African leader Jacob Zuma will visit Zimbabwe this week to assess the state of a power-sharing agreement set up to end a decade-long political and economic...
made popular Mar 16 2010
South African President Jacob Zuma has allegedly fathered a child with friend and powerful soccer businessman Irvin Khoza’s daughter Sonono Khoza, according to a...
made popular Feb 2 2010
South Africa’s main opposition party has accused the country’s president of contradicting the government’s message on HIV/Aids prevention.
The...
made popular Feb 1 2010
The African National Congress would cooperate but not “co-govern” with its alliance partners, SA President Jacob Zuma told the SABC on Sunday.
“Once...
made popular Jan 11 2010
Jacob Zuma, the polygamous president of South Africa, is to gain his third first lady in a traditional Zulu wedding on Monday.
Zuma, 67, will marry Tobeka Madiba in a...
made popular Jan 4 2010
Jacob Zuma, the president of South Africa, has prompted anger with a reported R65m (£5.3m) expansion of his personal residence in one of the country’s poorest...
made popular Dec 5 2009
This country’s rituals of protest most often call for the burning of tires, the barricading of streets and the throwing of rocks. So when the municipal mayor here...
made popular Sep 7 2009
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma has urged Zimbabwe’s political rivals to work together if they are to see foreign aid restored.
He said the...
made popular Aug 29 2009
The storm surrounding ANC Youth League President Julius Malema’s criticism of President Jacob Zuma’s appointment of “minorities” to strategic...
made popular Aug 14 2009
South African President Jacob Zuma has a problem: the very underclass that swept him into office last April on his promise to deliver them a better life have run out of...
made popular Jul 25 2009
South African construction workers began an indefinite strike yesterday, halting work at stadiums for the 2010 World Cup in the biggest industrial action since...
made popular Jul 9 2009
South Africa must ease economic inequalities or face serious consequences, President Jacob Zuma said, a policy that could unnerve foreign investors worried he may steer...
made popular Jun 8 2009
A white South African man has been granted refugee status in Canada after an immigration board ruled he faces persecution if he is returned to his native...
made popular Sep 1 2009
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men: Plato.
Wise men’s old sayings are often just as applicable today. Plato’s...
made popular Apr 30 2009
This route, the myth goes, is the descent into dictatorship, the free-fall into hunger and poverty and the collapse of institutions such as an independent and vigorous...
made popular Oct 1 2008
There are those who do not believe the activities in Zimbabwe and prefer to detract instead on the written word.. That is their right. I am not going to write...
made popular Sep 30 2008
The political events in South Africa over the last week have been historical –- a relatively ’smooth’ change of presidency without bloodshed in Africa! No doubt...
made popular Sep 29 2008
Good guerrillas often make indifferent democrats. Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe may be the clearest proof that the very qualities that make an effective insurgent...
made popular Sep 26 2008
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