One of Zimbabwe’s most strident businessmen Mutumwa Mawere is winning his long battle for compensation with President Robert Mugabe’s regime over the ownership of his company Africa Resources Limited (ARL)...
Ben-Menashe's past triumphs have included missions for Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's regime when Ben-Menashe encouraged opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to talk about plans to remove the President five years ago; and 20 years ago he was accused of helping to delay the release of United States' hostages in Iran to boost Ronald Reagan's election campaign...
The Harare government accuses Mwanawasa of being in the pockets of Britain and the USA: President Robert Mugabe believes the Zambian government is plotting with Western powers to bring about regime change in Harare...
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- SOUTH AFRICA
' Zuma carefully triangulated between the hyper-neutrality of mediator Mbeki and the demand to call time on President Robert Mugabe that comes from the trades unions and the South Africa Communist Party who have been barred from Zimbabwe...
President Robert Mugabe's boast that ZANU-PF has a 'degree in violence' was not an idle one...
Legal Affairs Secretary and former Security Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has led the charge for Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) since he organised the party congress's decision last December to re-select Robert Mugabe as its presidential candidate...
Vol 49 No 10 |
- AFRICA
- ANALYSIS
The opposition complains that the government sold large quantities of it to Zimbabwe earlier in the year (President Bingu wa Mutharika is a great admirer of President Robert Mugabe) and has now banned maize exports but not to Zimbabwe for fear that it will not be able to feed the million people whose crops have this year been ruined by flooding...
The thwarted voyage of the An Yue Jiang – a Chinese freighter with a cargo of ammunition mortars mines and artillery bound for President Robert Mugabe’s government – marks a turning point for Zimbabwe’s regional relations...
Although the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (ZEC) had not released results for the presidential elections twelve days after voting many expect its final results to show that no candidate won more than 50% of the vote and that there would be a run-off between President Robert Mugabe and MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai...
Curiously ZANU-PF still polled over 100 000 more votes than the MDC in the Assembly elections; where ZANU-PF won it would win by much bigger margins than the MDC's victories prompting many to suggest that a fix was being prepared to justify a victory for President Robert Mugabe in the presidential election...