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...
Moscow had signed up to a Group of 8 condemnation of President Robert Mugabe's government at Japan's Hokkaido summit...
Vol 49 No 15 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Mbeki actively opposed this and worked in the United Nations Security Council to water down an anti-Robert Mugabe resolution that most other members backed...
Even so in some constituencies in Matebeleland the combined number of spoiled ballots and votes for Tsvangirai outnumbered those for the unopposed President Robert Mugabe...
Emmerson Mnangagwa was roped in by President Robert Mugabe to mastermind his bid for re-election together with his close ally Legal Affairs Minister Patrick Chinamasa...
The force behind Robert Mugabe's re-election campaign was former intelligence chief Emmerson Mnangagwa the Secretary for Legal Affairs of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front along with the military and security chiefs in the Joint Operations Command...
Angola has disliked South Africa's failure to do anything useful about Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and its recent wave of violence against migrant workers...