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...
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- 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...
A strong supporter of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Nujoma publicly berates journalists who criticise his father...
The timing will depend on whether Zuma’s 16-18 March mission to Harare can secure a deal on the key battles between the parties: appointing provincial premiers the Reserve Bank Governor and the Attorney General and President Robert Mugabe’s unilateral decision to strip four ministers from rival parties of any effective powers...