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Zimbabwe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe

Date of Birth: 21 February 1924
Place of Birth: Zvimba
Died: 6 September 2019


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Moving statues

The controversial statue honouring Joshua Nkomo on Main Street in Bulawayo could not wait to be officially unveiled by President Robert Mugabe (AC Vol 51 No 16)...

Bulawayo City Council run by the Movement for Democratic Change deplored the waste of public funds but is to press ahead with the renaming of Main Street as Joshua Nkomo Street (elsewhere renamed Main Streets usually end up as Robert Mugabe Streets)...


The missing election fund

A chipper-looking President Robert Mugabe arrived in New York for the United Nations summit this week despite the strike by Air Zimbabwe’s pilots...


Ghostly presences

He has confirmed that President Robert Mugabe will eventually conduct an unveiling ceremony...


Malema loses a friend

Robert Mugabe’s bid for Kwame Nkrumah’s pan-African kente cloth won mixed reviews at the African National Congress’s Youth Conference near Johannesburg...


Bullfighting

Within hours of President Robert Mugabe's sister Sabina dying on 28 July the Politburo had declared her a national heroine and decreed a ceremonial burial at Heroes Acre...


What mattered was the football

Robert Mugabe has earned a reputation as one of the globe's leading gatecrashers but his poise self-confidence and chutzpah have not rubbed off on his travelling entourage...


Restless spirits

In his final years as Robert Mugabe's Vice-President (and owner of several rich farms) Joshua was deeply upset at what the President was doing to the country...


Half a century, half the battle

The anniversary attracted a good guest list: two kings (Belgium Swaziland) and heads of state including Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame who arrived late enough to delay the parade for several hours...


Diplomacy by other means

We hear that Zuma’s office has just sent a stern note to the three principals of 2008’s Global Political Agreement (GPA) – Robert Mugabe Arthur Mutambara and Morgan Tsvangirai – firmly setting out the limits of South Africa’s mediating role if the parties do not keep to their undertakings...


Football fever, faction fever

He had supported Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s land reform programme sung ‘Kill the Boer’ evicted a BBC journalist from a press conference and ridiculed President Zuma saying he was worse than Mbeki...


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