Simba Makoni Zimbabwe's ex-Finance Minister and ex-Executive Secretary Southern African Development Community; he's the official SADC candidate; he has tried unsuccessfully to distance himself from the stigma of being President Robert Mugabe's candidate; many non-regional shareholders (which control 34...
In the official results President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front won 78 seats and is allowed to appoint a further 30 non-constituency MPs giving it the comfortable two-thirds majority it needs to change the constitution...
He has also keenly backed President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe reflecting a September 2004 opinion poll in New African magazine which rated Mugabe the third greatest African of all time - not a view held by all Zimbabweans...
If ZANU-PF retains its majority the MDC will have to rethink its tactics faced with the prospect of President Robert Mugabe staying in power until 2008...
President Robert Mugabe's current term lasts until 2008 and the parliamentary elections due on 31 March are critical to his next moves...
Vol 46 No 6 |
- AFRICA
- BRITAIN
John Bredenkamp who has been an important supplier of military equipment to President Robert Mugabe's government and an agent for BAE Systems in Southern Africa has indefinite leave to remain in Britain; he operates his other trading companies out of Zimbabwe...
The last shreds of credibility of President Robert Mugabe's government are at stake in a war of words between businessman Mutumwa Mawere and Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono...
A Zimbabwean source claimed South Africa's aim was to secure 'assisted regime change' by backing a strong candidate against President Robert Mugabe for ZANU-PF's leadership; Pretoria's favoured candidate the source said was parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa whose bid for the deputy presidency failed at the party congress in December...
Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe complained that presidents should not meet people facing criminal charges; Mwanawasa explained that he did so as a party leader not a national president...
Centre-stage in the latest spy saga is Philip Chiyangwa the zealous MP for Chinhoyi Chairman of Mashonaland West's branch of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and awkwardly a nephew of President Robert Mugabe...