Although it now seems likely that the Constitutional Court will bow to pressure and postpone the election for a few weeks beyond 31 July the beneficiaries of any Court review are still likely to be President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF)...
Vol 54 No 12 |
- AFRICAN UNION
He was backed by Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe and Egypt’s Mohammed Mursi whose governments earn substantial sums from tourist attractions such as Victoria Falls and the Pyramids...
President Robert Mugabe’s age remains a concern although he has looked perkier in recent months...
That and Lusaka’s love-in with Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe have affected Scott’s hard-won reputation as a brake on the excesses of his superior...
President Robert Mugabe’s chances of holding elections acceptable to the Southern African Development Community before July have been dashed...
President Robert Mugabe is insisting on general elections by 29 June when the present Parliament ends despite the objections of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai...
They now have a document that enshrines ZANU-PF's supremacy whatever happens to President Robert Mugabe...
Their script albeit more sophisticated borrows heavily from the nationalist rhetoric of Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe and Côte d’Ivoire’s Laurent Gbagbo (who now faces trial at the ICC after his successor Alassane Dramane Ouattara handed him over)...
Prime Minister David Cameron’s government is conscious also of being accused of hypocrisy if it takes a hardline approach on Kenyatta and Ruto who may yet win a credible election and who remain innocent until proven guilty – while re-engaging with President Robert Mugabe’s government in Zimbabwe in the run-up to the constitutional referendum...
In 2008 the ZEC sat on the election results for six weeks while President Robert Mugabe and his securocrats thought up a survival strategy...