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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
SADC are not worth spit when it comes to the Global Political Agreement in Zimbabwe...
“South African President Jacob Zuma and his Southern African Development...
made popular May 23 2011
Here we have Robert Mugabe, the illegitimately elected President of Zimbabwe, making a stand against SADC, the guarantors of the cross-party negotiations, denying them...
made popular May 16 2011
Following the humiliation of Mugabe in Livingstone last week, and Mugabe’s remarks upon his return that a mediator cannot dictate to him, the Commissioner-General...
made popular Apr 7 2011
There can be no doubt in anyone’s minds that the Mugabe rule is coming to an end. Whether he is removed from office by democratic means, or dies, the end must be...
made popular Apr 5 2011
Finally! Finally an African leader has had the courage to say something in public to Mugabe...
“Zambian President Rupiah Banda told Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe to...
made popular Apr 4 2011
I have yet to understand why Mugabe is permitted to get away with everything. Regional leaders and SADC seem to sit and watch him commit the worst crimes of all, and...
made popular Apr 4 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 think that anyone who has studied events in Zimbabwe over the past two or three years will agree that the government of national unity has not worked. Power-sharing...
made popular Mar 25 2011
This ruling aside, what is being done to enforce the Supreme Court order that compels Zuma’s administration to hand over a report on the 2002 Zimbabwean election...
made popular Jan 28 2011
Mugabe has no regard for any institution. His speeches in the UN prove that. He is happy to sign agreements, but seldom stands by his own signature, and, whenever he...
made popular Jan 19 2011
Wouldn’t it be nice if they had a war - and nobody came?
This weekend, there was supposed to be a SADC conference in Botswana to discuss the Zimbabwean crisis -...
made popular Nov 22 2010
SADC is toothless - and Mugabe knows it. They attempted to place a 30-day deadline on Mugabe falling in line with the GPA, and when he ignored it, there was nothing...
made popular Nov 18 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
Why am I not at all surprised that Mugabe has chosen to ignore the thirty day deadline imposed by SADC for his party and the two factions of the Movement for Democratic...
made popular Sep 16 2010
“The origins of SADC lie in the 1960s and 1970s, when the leaders of majority-ruled countries and national liberation movements coordinated their political,...
made popular Aug 24 2010
With Zimbabwe on the agenda at the SADC summit in Windhoek, Namibia, I was not surprised when news came out that Mugabe was to be given more time to have the Global...
made popular Aug 18 2010
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“The Zimbabwe prime minister’s party says one of its major disagreements with longtime ruler President Robert Mugabe over...
made popular Aug 17 2010
I have often written about the apathy that other Africa countries have towards Mugabe and his totalitarian rule. I have often commented that regional leaders are...
made popular Aug 10 2010
Yesterday, you may recall that I wrote about Mugabe’s attitude to the new SADC ruling following his ignoring the initial ruling. This is all about the land grab...
made popular Jul 21 2010
Mugabe is fast becoming a huge problem in Africa – and the various bodies, such as SADC and the AU, have done nothing to hinder his self-gratifying rule in Zimbabwe,...
made popular Jul 20 2010
What a strange headline! Unless, of course, if you were to look at the situation in Zimbabwe and the failure of the government of national unity to present a workable...
made popular Apr 30 2010
As an outsider, watching events in Zimbabwe, it is easy to point fingers at failed policies, biased political thinking and general malaise within the coalition...
made popular Apr 26 2010
Mediation in Zimbabwe is a joke – and a poor one at that. Contrary to what was discussed and agreed with Zuma just a couple of weeks ago, Mugabe has backtracked and...
made popular Apr 15 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
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
I have asked – many times in the last two years – just why it is that Mugabe is allowed to hold on to power with such zeal and passion, when, in reality, he and his...
made popular Mar 18 2010
Yesterday it was reported that Mugabe was on leave until sometime in February - but today we find out that he attended a troika meeting in Maputu that focused in...
made popular Jan 16 2010
Robert Gabriel Mugabe has decided that any concessions given to the MDC with regard to the coalition to government will be on his terms, his timings and not worth the...
made popular Dec 15 2009
When Tokyo Sexwale stands up at the just completed ZANU PF congress and declares undying gratitude to ZANU PF because of their support of the ANC during the South...
made popular Dec 14 2009
The Southern African Development Conference (SADC) set a 15 days deadline for Mugabe.s ZANU PF, Tsvangirai’s MDC-T and Mutambara’s MDC-M to begin negotiations to...
made popular Nov 23 2009
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...
made popular Nov 11 2009
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
Each day, when I read through dozens of articles on the internet in an attempt to filter out those that I wish to highlight on my main page, “The Bearded...
made popular Sep 22 2009
Not only has SADC not reacted to the withdrawal of Zimbabwe from the authority of the SADC tribunal, but the just finished SADC conference in the DRC managed to...
made popular Sep 10 2009
Mugabe spends much of his time blaming the ills of the country upon the ‘illegal economic sanctions’ and neatly avoids taking any responsibility for...
made popular Sep 5 2009
Mugabe has played a trump card against the commercial farmers that remain on their land in Zimbabwe.
To achieve this, he has used the offices of his Justice Minister,...
made popular Sep 4 2009
The number of hungry people in southern Africa rose over the past year largely due to the crisis in Zimbabwe, despite a lower regional cereal deficit, the Southern...
made popular May 22 2009
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A Zimbabwean opposition supporter calls for President Robert Mugabe to step down from office, at a SADC extraordinary summit in Johannesburg, Sunday, Nov. 9, 2008. Mugabe’s peers are losing patience, the top negotiator for the Zimbabwe opposition says...
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