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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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Omens and portents

This is an increasingly common refrain within the political class as evidence mounts that in emulation of neighbouring Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's survival strategy President Jacob Zuma has not been deflected from a policy of protecting widespread rent-seeking behind a populist smokescreen...

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Whose judge is it anyway?

Normally President Robert Mugabe is reluctant to appear to be the author of major decisions preferring them to look like the inevitable consequence of the law or of ZANU-PF's internal processes...


ZANU-PF digs for votes

' The Trafigura facility carries a massive rate of interest the sources said and the family of President Robert Mugabe had a role in the deal...

The power of the family President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace and her family are involved in a multi-million electricity generation project with Sakunda Holdings...


Mugabe's waiting room

The country's restless public has failed to dislodge its nonagenarian leader Robert Mugabe who has ruled since 1980...


Getting ready for trouble

The government is making several payments to dispossessed farmers to regularise the legal status of land held by President Robert Mugabe's family and leading members of the ruling party Africa Confidential has learned...


Fears of a great unravelling

The rival factions in power differ over economic strategy while the increasingly vocal opposition opposes any foreign money deal which it sees as bailing out President Robert Mugabe's ailing government (AC Vol 57 No 17 Patriotism politics and position)...

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Patriotism, politics and position

ZANU-PF cadres fiercely resent the idea that President Robert Mugabe should cede his mandate to a transitional authority even if it is ostensibly non-partisan...


Dollar crisis puts opposition on the streets

Hostility within the government is mounting towards the plan which is championed by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Reserve Bank Governor John Mangudya and backed by President Robert Mugabe for a rapprochement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (AC Vol 57 No 13 Political questions loom as debt deal is set for September)...

A fistful of dollars As the country's cash crisis deepens doubts are growing about a plan to issue US$200 million of bond notes described by President Robert Mugabe as a 'surrogate currency'...

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