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For almost 30 years we have read about – and experienced - Mugabe’s lies and double standards. He will spin whoever will listen a line and expects that once he has stated his case, that it is accepted as the truth, no matter what.
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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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Robert Gabriel Mugabe is a man of extremes. His reactions are very seldom ‘middle of the road’ – no, he prefers the sublime or the ridiculous. Nothing in...
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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...
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Last year we all had to go through the mediation by Thabo Mbeki of the Zimbabwean governmental crisis, and although the former South African President was able to have...
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Mugabe has got his wires crossed (again) somewhere. Whilst he pleads with the free world to release buckets loads of money to enable the rebuilding of Zimbabwe, he also...
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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
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...
made popular Nov 20 2009
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...
made popular Nov 19 2009
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...
made popular Nov 18 2009
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...
made popular Nov 18 2009
If anyone were to use one word to describe the judicial system in Zimbabwe, we might hope for words like ‘fair’ and ‘just’ - perhaps even a word...
made popular Nov 17 2009
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...
made popular Nov 16 2009
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...
made popular Nov 13 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
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...
made popular Nov 10 2009
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...
made popular Nov 9 2009
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 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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“The Netherlands government yesterday turned down Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s request for the lifting of economic sanctions and a financial package, saying...
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If ever we were looking for proof that Mugabe was not behind the ‘inclusive’ government, then here it is.
Mugabe has tasked Tsvangirai with convincing countries in...
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Constitutional tinkering has become a Mugabe/ZANU PF speciality - and whenever Mugabe sees a way in which to rid himself of an opponent or change the laws of the land...
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It is fourteen months since Morgan Tsvangirai’s Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) took the majority in parliament in Zimbabwe. It is almost a year since the...
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Why is it that when things don’t happen to Mugabe’s liking, his war veterans or militia or security force chiefs threaten that they will go to war over the matter?...
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I was absolutely delighted to read that ZANU PF - Mugabe’s party - has issued a warning that they will withdraw from the ‘inclusive’ government if Gideon Gono is...
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Gideon Gono is the Governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe. He is a Mugabe appointee and remains in office only because Mugabe has decided that he has done his...
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Mr Mugabe,
Call yourself a President? Call yourself a world leader?
You insist that Zimbabwe is a democracy, yet your policies do everything to remove and decision...
made popular May 12 2009
How is it that the ‘unity government’ can agree to compensation being paid to more Mugabe appointees, when there are many - more deserving - other people...
made popular May 11 2009
Talk of sex boycott! Kenyan prostitutes are making a kill.
It is high season for commercial sex workers as wives have gone on a sex strike following a sex boycott...
made popular May 6 2009
Wikipedia describes a “politician” (from Greek “polis”) as an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of...
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Today I read that African states had pledged around US$400 million for the rebuilding of the Zimbabwean economy, whilst England pledged £15 million (about US$12...
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The new Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai, who is also the leader of the larger faction of the Zimbabwean political party, the Movement for Democratic...
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It is just gone 2 on the Monday afternoon following the Friday afternoon collision that killed Susan Tsvangirai, wife of the Zimbabwean Prime Minister, Morgan...
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I looked closely at Mugabe’s ‘hand of friendship’ speech this week, and realised that it is just the same old rubbish regurgitated with a few tweaks to make it...
made popular Feb 16 2009
This keeping up with politics in Zimbabwe is not easy - hard work even - even if you try to keep up with it 24/7.
Two days ago we saw Morgan Tsvangirai take the office...
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This morning, a very unhappy looking Robert Mugabe swore Morgan Tsvangirai into the office of Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in line with the unity government agreement...
made popular Feb 12 2009
Unity - an undivided or unbroken completeness or totality with nothing wanting…
Since March last year when the Movement for Democratic Change led by Morgan...
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