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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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The next revolution

Insiders say that President Robert Mugabe was incensed by Makamba’s close relationship with First Lady Grace Marufu Mugabe...


A clash at the border

In this latest clash between neighbours it may be that someone in Harare wanted to reply to Botswana President Ian Khama’s criticism of Robert Mugabe...

At last month’s African Union summit in Addis Ababa Ethiopia Botswana’s Vice-President Lieutenant General Mompati Merafhe asked for a meeting with President Robert Mugabe but Zimbabwean officials said the President’s aeroplane had left early...


Petrified Politburos

The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s 49-member policy-making committee announced by Robert Gabriel Mugabe national President and First Secretary of ZANU-PF reflects the party’s crisis over its leadership succession and its obsession with regional and ethnic balancing...


No one writes to the Colonel

No Western poodle Mutharika is a staunch ally of his neighbour President Robert Mugabe and remonstrates with British officials for interfering in Zimbabwe...


The President ends his holiday

It now looks as if far from being a temporary expedient the coalition arrangement set up in February 2009 will last the full life of the five-year Parliament elected in 2008 and that President Robert Gabriel Mugabe plans to serve out his full five-year term too...


A slow return to growth

ZANU-PF's succession struggle will intensify as President Robert Mugabe's influence (balanced by that of the competent MDC Finance Minister Tendai Biti) starts to recede...


Three men in a boat

President Robert Mugabe of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change and Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara of his own MDC faction told a joint press conference on 23 December that they still had ‘minor differences’ but that the power-sharing government was not going to collapse...


Coalition of the controllers

The group cited Beijing's gift to Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe of radio-jamming equipment which blocked opposition broadcasts in the 2005 legislative elections...


A Mugabe shakedown at the Shanghai Expo

Seeking hard cash and a platform for his disavowals of the West President Robert Mugabe flew to Shanghai's spectacular trade expo where on 11 August he thanked Beijing for being an 'all-weather' friend...


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