Banda is seen as an oldstyle politician and will certainly be less critical of Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe than was Mwanawasa but he also represents political stability in turbulent times...
Robert Mugabe's slogan for his victorious opponent-free rerun of the presidential election was 'the last battle for total control'...
He takes his tactics from his hero and neighbour Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and regards criticism as neo-colonial interference...
Along with Botswana he broke the African Union's wall of silence around President Robert Mugabe...
) to a company whose majority Zimbabwean shareholder is a long-time business ally of President Robert Mugabe’s regime...
) to a company whose majority Zimbabwean shareholder is a long-time business ally of President Robert Mugabe’s regime...
Internationally Banda is a friend of the old-style leaders including Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front's lieutenants; he was close to Angola's José Eduardo dos Santos when they were both Foreign Ministers...
Vol 49 No 16 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Bizos recently defended Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai against charges of plotting to assassinate President Robert Mugabe...
The two factions of the Movement for Democratic Change MDC-T under Morgan Tsvangirai and MDC-M under Arthur Mutambara conceded that President Robert Mugabe's position was not up for debate...
Leading members of President Robert Mugabe's regime and their business allies are transferring tens of millions of US dollars out of Zimbabwe to safe havens to avoid the threat of tightening sanctions and the possibility of financial scrutiny by a power-sharing government...