Robert Gabriel Mugabe

President Daniel arap Moi's government had to make concessions on constitutional reform while President Robert Mugabe's government has to introduce a new austerity programme as the price of meeting the veterans' demands...

Under the leadership of Chenjerai Hunzvi the veterans' outrage has shaken the ruling party's old guard particularly members of the politburo who have been jostling to succeed President Robert Mugabe...

Hunzvi is politically well-connected particularly to President Robert Mugabe's family which has not joined in the discrediting of his record...

President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe (current Chairman of the Organisation of African Unity) said: 'It would be very sad indeed if our relationship with the EU were to become the only reason for the ACP's existence'...

Although Western companies had submitted lower bids Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe awarded a $600 mn...

Over a third of leaders have so far accepted Bongo's invitation including the Organisation of African Unity head Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe Nigeria's General Sani Abacha Cameroon's Paul Biya Uganda's Yoweri Museveni Rwanda's Pasteur Bizimungu Senegal's Abdou Diouf and either Nelson Mandela or Thabo Mbeki from South Africa...

The news broke as President Nelson Mandela was meeting Presidents Robert Mugabe Yoweri Museveni and Omer el Beshir as part of his efforts to get the NIF and SPLA to talk to each other forcing Mandela as the Mail put it 'to do some fast talking'...

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...

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)...

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...

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...