A new video has emerged showing Michael Jackson meeting President Robert Mugabe on a secret trip to Zimbabwe. The footage – which has never been seen before – shows the King of Pop with the fawning Zimbabwean leader and his wife Grace. The video was shot in the State House […]
The ruling Zanu-PF party has repudiated its own indigenisation law, calling it ill-conceived and done for political expediency during the late former President Robert Mugabe’s era. Addressing journalists at the party headquarters in Harare on Monday, Zanu PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa said the law had to be revoked under […]
By Nic Cheeseman For the last few years the African political landscape has been dominated by high profile changes of leaders and governments. In Angola (2017), Ethiopia (2018), South Africa (2018), Sudan (2019) and Zimbabwe (2018), leadership change promised to bring about not only a new man at the top, […]
Land reform isn’t just about compensating white farmers whose land was expropriated. It must secure the property rights of Black farmers, too. By Michael Albertus Zimbabwe’s president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, turned heads in July by signing an agreement to compensate white farmers with ties to the British colonial era for the […]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s national address on Tuesday was a not so surprising damp squib, far divorced from the reality on the ground and everyday experiences of ordinary people. It only confirmed that for him, power is just an end in itself rather than a means to an end, particularly after […]
By Blessing-Miles Tendi “When I was there, the Zimbabwean army was good. They were disciplined. There was no hint of the army being political. I wrote regular reports for the UK government and do not recall ever writing anything particularly negative about the Zimbabwean army. I do not understand how […]
By Chofamba Sithole A bungled circumcision procedure just before his incarceration at Salisbury Prison in the 1960s left the late nationalist leader and former Zimbabwean President, Robert Mugabe, nursing a swollen and infected penis in jail. The intimate details of the late strongman’s much-rumoured medical condition were revealed by the […]
By Brian Hungwe Both Robert Mugabe and Daniel arap Moi were born in 1924 and both died at the age of 95. They were both involved in anti-colonial politics, though unlike Mugabe, Moi never took up arms. And they both governed former British colonies, with white settler populations, for more […]
By Ray Ndlovu and Njabulo Ncube Robert Mugabe may no longer be president, but vestiges of his rule still remain in Zimbabwe. Two streets in the capital city of Harare and the second-largest city, Bulawayo, are named after him. In early November 2017, the main airport in Harare was renamed […]
In Zimbabwe, a deteriorating economic situation, coupled with renewed repression, is tempting ordinary citizens to think they were better off under Robert Mugabe. Cyril Zenda reports. After the harrowing experience that Zimbabweans went through under Robert Mugabe’s extended misrule, it is unimaginable that anyone can think, let alone suggest, that […]