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)...
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...
He has confirmed that President Robert Mugabe will eventually conduct an unveiling ceremony...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Vol 51 No 14 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
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...
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...
Vol 51 No 12 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
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...