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...
Announced by President Robert Mugabe on 7 March the Act compels all foreign-owned companies (and many locally-owned ones) to sell 51% of their equity to indigenous Zimbabweans those of African descent...
Gadaffi made the point that great revolutionaries like himself and his host not to mention Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe should not be limited by the trivialities of constitutional term limits...
There are four elections in Zimbabwe on 29 March and none of them are going according to plan for President Robert Gabriel Mugabe...
Robert Mugabe is not a man given to apologies but this week he has been telling Zimbabweans that the current food shortages are due to delays in shipments from Zambia...
President Robert Mugabe sure of victory in the presidential election on 29 March chose to hold his 84th birthday party in Beitbridge...
Mhanda was popular during the liberation struggle and now leads a group of war veterans the Liberators' Platform but it is no match for Jabulani Sibanda's war veterans' association which bulldozed President Robert Mugabe to victory in three elections...
President Robert Mugabe's supporters will seize on that...
On 13 February Makoni launched his independent candidacy in the presidential election due on 29 March by describing Zimbabwe as 'a sad country full of fear' and calling on members of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front to abandon 83-year-old President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and vote for a 'new beginning'...
Vol 49 No 3 |
- EAST AFRICA
Kenya and Uganda will probably continue to support President Robert Gabriel Mugabe while Kikwete's position remains unclear...
Only former Finance Minister Simba Makoni can resolve the issue of whether he is going to challenge President Robert Mugabe for the Presidency in the elections now set for 29 March...