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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 be travelling to Harare to speak with Robert Mugabe, Morgan Tsvangirai and Arthur...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Peter Singer. A professor of Bioethics at the Princeton University (New Jersey, USA), gave voice to an important question that had been wandering about the mental space...
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I have maintained for a couple of years that Mugabe is using the negotiations as a time wasting ploy, and I am now of the belief that the latest shenanigans in Harare...
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At the rate it is going, South Africa could soon be expelled from the African Union for “setting a bad example” to the rest of the continent.
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The mediated talks between Mugabe’s ZANU PF, Tsvangirai’s MDC faction and the smaller faction of the MDC led by Arthur Mutambara, are set to continue this week,...
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