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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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Who is Hunzvi?

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


Bongo's beanfeast

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'...


Clouds over summit

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...


Trading arms

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'...


Fela and his heirs

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...


NIF targets Mandela

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)...


More pay, less graft

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...


The general's labyrinth

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...


Naming names

The reluctance of leaders to confess past misdeeds was summed up on 10 May by Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe whose government refused to act on the atrocities carried out on its behalf by the infamous North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade in the 1980s Matabeleland crisis...


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