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Zimbabwe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe

Date of Birth: 21 February 1924
Place of Birth: Zvimba
Died: 6 September 2019


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Fela and his heirs

Similarly Zimbabwe's Thomas Mapfumo and Blacks Unlimited popularised the Chimurenga music of the liberation struggle; Mapfumo has now turned his attention to the shortcomings of President Robert Mugabe's government...


NIF targets Mandela

Khartoum (and Pretoria) said Zimbabwean President and Organisation of African Unity head Robert Mugabe was also involved in the peace moves and Sudanese newspapers wrote of Egypt's support – though Cairo is now more friendly to the National Democratic Alliance (as is South Africa where reports say arms sent to Uganda go to the SPLA and where the SPLA is opening an office)...


More pay, less graft

Nobody suggests unseating President Robert Mugabe but there is deep dissatisfaction with his indigenisation programme whose benefits are perceived as going mainly to presidential favourites – especially his nephew Leo Mugabe...

Robert Mugabe now seems to be tangling with former army commander Solomon Mujuru (the Information Minister's husband) who with motor trader Tobias Musariri (from the same district) had acquired 27 per cent of the Zimbabwe Mining and Smelting Company (Zimasco) a chrome producer formerly owned by Union Carbide...


The general's labyrinth

Facing a host of questions on Sierra Leone OAU Chairman Robert Mugabe replied by denouncing coups everywhere emphasising that OAU support for peacekeeping in Sierra Leone did not mean support for Nigeria's undemocratic regime...


Naming names

The reluctance of leaders to confess past misdeeds was summed up on 10 May by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe whose government refused to act on the atrocities carried out on its behalf by the infamous North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade in the 1980s Matabeleland crisis...


New fingers on Zaïre's trigger

While keeping neutral publicly SADC leaders such as Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe and Botswana's Quett Masire were privately enthusiastic about the toppling of Mobutu...

Further south Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe does not hide either his distaste for Turabi's NIF regime or his support for the SPLA...


Boeing bellyflops

But in the case of the Harare bellyflop Zimbabwe security's energetic efforts to hush the affair up seem to indicate the consignment had the tacit approval of the '3Ms': Presidents Nelson Mandela Robert Mugabe and Yoweri Museveni...


Democracy deficit

) Yahya Jammeh of the Gambia sharply lectured by Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe on the evils of military coups...


Play it again, Sam

In this way he resembles his neighbour President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe...


Kuala Lumpar can do

Further north Mahathir has forged a close relationship with President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe...


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