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So Tunisia - France’s favorite dictatorship - has began a new era of Ben Ali repression. The 73-year-old black-hair-dyed tyrant - in power for 23 years today - recently won a fifth term with a mere 89% of the vote.
Of course, Tunisia has no...
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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...
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...
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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...
made popular Nov 2 2009
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...
made popular Oct 20 2009
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 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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Since the time I began to think several years ago I have often heard several things in all kinds of fora. “Women are being oppressed”, “women are...
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In real terms, there are two answers to this question - and they are just about as opposed to each other as possible…
At 86, Mugabe is now almost twice the expected...
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It is hard to wonder a world with Australia’s researches.
Just released, results of survey on how ethnic names affect employment opportunities in Australia hardly...
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I read an article in Instablogs about Dalith oppression. Not alone Dalits but people are oppressed with castism ie suspecious dalitism. I meant that ’suspecting a...
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The Taliban seems to be increasing its stranglehold over parts of northwestern Pakistan, and people in those areas are succumbing to their demands without a fight,...
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The more I hear Obama speak the more he scares me. Either he has crazy ideas and frightening motives or he doesn’t really think his ideas through. But consider...
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