Banda is popular with fellow leaders in the region including Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe South Africa’s Jacob Zuma Swaziland’s King Mswati and Congo-Kinshasa’s Joseph Kabila...
Vol 51 No 8 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Zuma and ANC leaders were also fuming about Malema’s support for President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front backing their disastrous land reform and indigenisation policies and denigrating ZANU-PF’s coalition partner the Movement for Democratic Change calling it a ‘popcorn’ party...
As President of the African National Congress Youth League Malema told President Robert Mugabe and his allies that their land resettlement policy had been a success and that South Africa would soon be adopting their economic indigenisation policy...
Although Bennett was named as Deputy Minister of Agriculture by the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) he has been barred by President Robert Mugabe from assuming ministerial duties on the grounds that state prosecutors have launched a case against him for trying to overthrow the regime (AC Vol 50 No 21)...
Kasukuwere has even lambasted President Robert Mugabe's close ally Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono for warning of the dangers of the same jambanja (violence) in the industrial sector that has accompanied land reform in the countryside...
A strong supporter of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe Nujoma publicly berates journalists who criticise his father...
The timing will depend on whether Zuma’s 16-18 March mission to Harare can secure a deal on the key battles between the parties: appointing provincial premiers the Reserve Bank Governor and the Attorney General and President Robert Mugabe’s unilateral decision to strip four ministers from rival parties of any effective powers...
Insiders say that President Robert Mugabe was incensed by Makamba’s close relationship with First Lady Grace Marufu Mugabe...
In this latest clash between neighbours it may be that someone in Harare wanted to reply to Botswana President Ian Khama’s criticism of Robert Mugabe...
At last month’s African Union summit in Addis Ababa Ethiopia Botswana’s Vice-President Lieutenant General Mompati Merafhe asked for a meeting with President Robert Mugabe but Zimbabwean officials said the President’s aeroplane had left early...
The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s 49-member policy-making committee announced by Robert Gabriel Mugabe national President and First Secretary of ZANU-PF reflects the party’s crisis over its leadership succession and its obsession with regional and ethnic balancing...