Normally President Robert Mugabe is reluctant to appear to be the author of major decisions preferring them to look like the inevitable consequence of the law or of ZANU-PF's internal processes...
' The Trafigura facility carries a massive rate of interest the sources said and the family of President Robert Mugabe had a role in the deal...
The power of the family President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace and her family are involved in a multi-million electricity generation project with Sakunda Holdings...
The country's restless public has failed to dislodge its nonagenarian leader Robert Mugabe who has ruled since 1980...
The government is making several payments to dispossessed farmers to regularise the legal status of land held by President Robert Mugabe's family and leading members of the ruling party Africa Confidential has learned...
The rival factions in power differ over economic strategy while the increasingly vocal opposition opposes any foreign money deal which it sees as bailing out President Robert Mugabe's ailing government (AC Vol 57 No 17 Patriotism politics and position)...
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ZANU-PF cadres fiercely resent the idea that President Robert Mugabe should cede his mandate to a transitional authority even if it is ostensibly non-partisan...
Hostility within the government is mounting towards the plan which is championed by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Reserve Bank Governor John Mangudya and backed by President Robert Mugabe for a rapprochement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (AC Vol 57 No 13 Political questions loom as debt deal is set for September)...
A fistful of dollars As the country's cash crisis deepens doubts are growing about a plan to issue US$200 million of bond notes described by President Robert Mugabe as a 'surrogate currency'...
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Of the EU states Britain is significantly now seen as the most supportive of the government's reform gestures: a sharp change from its former status as leading the charge against President Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF...
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Mnangagwa's network is also under attack as senior ZANU-PF members eliminate any resistance to First Lady Grace Mugabe even though no major leaders have any confidence in her political skills let alone her ability to lead the party in the absence of her husband President Robert Mugabe...
Mugabe reins in the Grace faction President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe née Marufu is agitating with the Generation 40 (G40) faction for a final push against Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his supporters...
' However Robert Mugabe has appointed Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa a Mnangagwa ally to head a reconstituted Disciplinary Committee...
Mangudya's decision could not have been taken without support from President Robert Mugabe's cabinet but that doesn't mean there isn't pushback...