Fresh startling details have emerged indicating how the late former President Robert Mugabe and his family worked with ex-top parastatal and security bosses to ship high-grade diamonds and ivory out of thecountry. Mugabe — who died in September 2019 — was as shrewd in underhand dealings as he was in […]
By Marko Piri For years, families of victims of mass killings and disappearances at the hands of government forces in Zimbabwe during the 1980s have tried to locate the remains of their loved ones for formal reburial. Described by some researchers as a genocide, the violence associated with the late Robert Mugabe’s Gukurahundi campaign continues to be […]
John Major vetoed a Foreign Office idea to offer honorary membership of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) to Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, saying it was a “dodgy precedent”, records released by the National Archives reveal. The FCO proposed the offer for Mugabe’s 1994 state visit to the UK, stating he was “reportedly […]
By Tendai Ruben Mbofana DEAR President Emmerson Mnangagwa, Your Excellency, if ever I was to be asked what I valued more than anything else on this planet, my answer would be swift and unhesitant — unity, love, peace, and joy — which I regard more than all the silver and […]
Zimbabwe’s leader Emmerson Mnangagwa has created new pension regulations for spouses of former presidents and their deputies, ensuring his wife and Grace Mugabe, the wife of the late former president, will live in extraordinary comfort for the rest of their lives. Before he died, former president Robert Mugabe, ousted by […]
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 […]