Robert Gabriel Mugabe

Legal Affairs Secretary and former Security Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has led the charge for Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) since he organised the party congress's decision last December to re-select Robert Mugabe as its presidential candidate...

The opposition complains that the government sold large quantities of it to Zimbabwe earlier in the year (President Bingu wa Mutharika is a great admirer of President Robert Mugabe) and has now banned maize exports but not to Zimbabwe for fear that it will not be able to feed the million people whose crops have this year been ruined by flooding...

The thwarted voyage of the An Yue Jiang – a Chinese freighter with a cargo of ammunition mortars mines and artillery bound for President Robert Mugabe’s government – marks a turning point for Zimbabwe’s regional relations...

Although the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) had not released results for the presidential elections twelve days after voting many expect its final results to show that no candidate won more than 50% of the vote and that there would be a run-off between President Robert Mugabe and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai...

Curiously ZANU-PF still polled over 100 000 more votes than the MDC in the Assembly elections; where ZANU-PF won it would win by much bigger margins than the MDC's victories prompting many to suggest that a fix was being prepared to justify a victory for President Robert Mugabe in the presidential election...

Zimbabweans blame President Robert Mugabe and his advisor and in-law the Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono for the destruction of their currency...

He would like more discipline in the country and disapproves of President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's dangerous game next door which has driven tens of thousands of economic migrants across the border...

to his less fortunate neighbours in Lesotho and Swaziland and to sell much larger quantities to Zimbabwe the region's grain-store until President Robert Gabriel Mugabe ruined it...

Nor are Malawians pleased to witness the maize 'surplus' disappearing across the Mwanza border towards Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe while they line up outside the local Admarc depot for the limited stocks of expensive maize within...

Member governments and the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa have two big concerns: that the vote rigging by President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front will be so crass that the SADC observers will be unable to give the elections a pass mark; and secondly that electoral disputes will spark violent clashes with the opposition across the country which will further weaken Zimbabwe's economy drive more migrants into neighbouring states and perhaps spark regional instability...

Mathews Phosa ANC Treasurer says 'Robert Mugabe has abused us' and that it was unlikely the election could be free or fair...

When Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga referred to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as 'a dinosaur' last year his party received an angry phonecall from Futungo de Belas in Luanda warning that gratuitous insults against Comrade Mugabe would mean the end of campaign funds from oil-rich Angola for Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)...

Firstly in the character of the politicians: opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai lacks the compulsions and tactical acuity of Odinga; while Robert Mugabe although almost a decade older than Mwai Kibaki is ten times more ruthless than his Kenyan counterpart...