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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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The hyperinflation club

Zimbabweans blame President Robert Mugabe and his advisor and in-law the Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono for the destruction of their currency...


New man, new discipline

He would like more discipline in the country and disapproves of President Robert Gabriel Mugabe's dangerous game next door which has driven tens of thousands of economic migrants across the border...


Treading on the corn

to his less fortunate neighbours in Lesotho and Swaziland and to sell much larger quantities to Zimbabwe the region's grain-store until President Robert Gabriel Mugabe ruined it...

Nor are Malawians pleased to witness the maize 'surplus' disappearing across the Mwanza border towards Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe while they line up outside the local Admarc depot for the limited stocks of expensive maize within...


The sick man of the south

Member governments and the Chairman of the Southern African Development Community Zambia's President Levy Mwanawasa have two big concerns: that the vote rigging by President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front will be so crass that the SADC observers will be unable to give the elections a pass mark; and secondly that electoral disputes will spark violent clashes with the opposition across the country which will further weaken Zimbabwe's economy drive more migrants into neighbouring states and perhaps spark regional instability...

Mathews Phosa ANC Treasurer says 'Robert Mugabe has abused us' and that it was unlikely the election could be free or fair...


Harare eyes the Kenyan model

When Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga referred to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe as 'a dinosaur' last year his party received an angry phonecall from Futungo de Belas in Luanda warning that gratuitous insults against Comrade Mugabe would mean the end of campaign funds from oil-rich Angola for Odinga's Orange Democratic Movement (ODM)...

Firstly in the character of the politicians: opposition Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai lacks the compulsions and tactical acuity of Odinga; while Robert Mugabe although almost a decade older than Mwai Kibaki is ten times more ruthless than his Kenyan counterpart...


Marking ballots, selling shares

Announced by President Robert Mugabe on 7 March the Act compels all foreign-owned companies (and many locally-owned ones) to sell 51% of their equity to indigenous Zimbabweans those of African descent...


The ex-revolutionary front

Gadaffi made the point that great revolutionaries like himself and his host not to mention Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe should not be limited by the trivialities of constitutional term limits...


Elections within elections

There are four elections in Zimbabwe on 29 March and none of them are going according to plan for President Robert Gabriel Mugabe...

Robert Mugabe is not a man given to apologies but this week he has been telling Zimbabweans that the current food shortages are due to delays in shipments from Zambia...


A birthday at Beitbridge

President Robert Mugabe sure of victory in the presidential election on 29 March chose to hold his 84th birthday party in Beitbridge...


Constituency carve-ups

Mhanda was popular during the liberation struggle and now leads a group of war veterans the Liberators' Platform but it is no match for Jabulani Sibanda's war veterans' association which bulldozed President Robert Mugabe to victory in three elections...


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