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...
Whether or not it was The Herald’s tactics that forced Chikane’s hand his final report will be much to the liking of President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and particularly to that of Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa who as Chairman of the Joint Operations Command takes a special interest in the military occupation of the Marange fields...
The acquittal of Roy Bennett Deputy Minister-designate of Agriculture and Treasurer of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on 10 May gave President Robert Mugabe the chance to show his commitment to power-sharing...
Mbada’s Chairman is Air Vice-Marshall (Retired) Robert Mhlanga said to be close to President Robert Mugabe whose helicopter he once flew...
Banda is popular with fellow leaders in the region including Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe South Africa’s Jacob Zuma Swaziland’s King Mswati and Congo-Kinshasa’s Joseph Kabila...
Vol 51 No 8 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Zuma and ANC leaders were also fuming about Malema’s support for President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front backing their disastrous land reform and indigenisation policies and denigrating ZANU-PF’s coalition partner the Movement for Democratic Change calling it a ‘popcorn’ party...
As President of the African National Congress Youth League Malema told President Robert Mugabe and his allies that their land resettlement policy had been a success and that South Africa would soon be adopting their economic indigenisation policy...
Although Bennett was named as Deputy Minister of Agriculture by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) he has been barred by President Robert Mugabe from assuming ministerial duties on the grounds that state prosecutors have launched a case against him for trying to overthrow the regime (AC Vol 50 No 21)...
Kasukuwere has even lambasted President Robert Mugabe's close ally Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono for warning of the dangers of the same jambanja (violence) in the industrial sector that has accompanied land reform in the countryside...