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A couple of weeks ago, whilst Arthur Mutambara was in Uganda with Robert Mugabe, Job Sikhala announced that he was the new leader of the smaller MDC faction.
Since that time, we have heard no reaction from any of the three political principals in...
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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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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...
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...
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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...
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...
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I don’t like Arthur Mutambara - for any number of reasons. He reminds me of a younger Mugabe is his speech pattern and I do note that somehow his faction of the MDC -...
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When the MDC split rather acrimoniously in 2005, the smaller faction parachuted in NASA professor Arthur Mutambara to lead them.
Mutambara was a rebel-rouser and...
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If you were to think about it, I really don’t need the headline, do I? To any casual observer, the situation in Zimbabwe is dire - not only in normal, daily life (is...
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As many of you are now aware, I write about Zimbabwe every day on my main blog page and then follow the daily posting up with articles of interest on my secondary...
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With so much shoulder barging going on, I thought that I would attempt to explain the reason behind so much activity, and it is very simply put down in one word....
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Robert Gabriel Mugabe has been in power for in excess of 28 years. I do not say that everything he has done in Zimbabwe has been wrong, but nine times out of ten his...
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Earlier today, I had the misfortune of listening to Arthur Mutambara on an Australian Broadcasting Corporation radio show.
I remain convinced that Mutambara’s speech...
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It was all over the television news channels, and all over the internet yesterday and today. Tsvangirai, Mugabe and Mutambara have signed the Memorandum of...
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