Robert Mugabe

Robert Mugabe

By newsday
September 11, 2019
Opinion & Editorials
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar,” Mark Anthony in Julius Caesar. ...
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By newsday
September 7, 2019
National News Slider
A COMPLEX character who ruthlessly pursued his goals, Robert Mugabe, leaves a mixed legacy: an independence leader who built his country up, then helped destroy it. ...
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By newsday
September 7, 2019
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National News
Robert Mugabe is born on February 21 in what was then British-ruled Southern Rhodesia. ...
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By newsday
August 3, 2019
National News Slider
A year ago, with Zimbabwe’s longtime ruler Robert Mugabe out of the picture, the troubled southern African country seemed to have taken a turn for the better. ...
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By newsday
May 23, 2019
Columnists Opinion & Editorials
A story is told of a young child about five years old who attended church with his mother and father. During the service and as is normal with such a young soul, the young child started to stand up and down, wriggle and fidget. ...
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By newsday
May 10, 2019
News Slider
Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe is auctioning off five combine harvesters and other farm equipment. ...
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By newsday
April 22, 2019
National News
REPORTS of two government commissions of inquiry into post-independence massacres in Matabeleland and parts of Midlands “have been lost”, National Peace and Reconciliation Commission (NPRC) chairperson Justice Selo Nare has claimed. ...
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By newsday
April 15, 2019
National News Slider
FORMER President Robert Mugabe is unwell and in Singapore receiving medical attention, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Saturday while millions of Zimbabweans contend with lack of drugs at public hospitals. ...
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By newsday
March 18, 2019
Columnists Opinion & Editorials
A signature characteristic of former President Robert Mugabe (pictured)’s administration was silence in the face of crippling crises. Zimbabweans, at the height of Mugabe’s rule, had become resigned to fate. ...
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By newsday
March 9, 2019
National News
High Court judge Justice Ester Muremba has saved former President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace, together with their family business Gushungo Holdings, from being promptly evicted from a Mazowe farm after dismissing an urgent chamber application filed by three farmers. ...
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By newsday
March 8, 2019
National News ZimDecides18
ZANU PF has challenged former President Robert Mugabe to respond to allegations that he was funding opposition leader Nelson Chamisa’s campaign to outfox his rivals ahead of the MDC party’s congress scheduled for May. ...
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By newsday
March 7, 2019
Columnists Opinion & Editorials Slider
THE retirement of four military generals and their immediate reassignment to Foreign Affairs has been widely interpreted as President Emmerson Mnangagwa moving to coup-proof his regime by getting rid of key elements that toppled long-time ruler Robert Mugabe in 2017. However, this could have been a smoke and mirrors game, with the military entrenching itself to drive the country’s diplomatic offensive and direct its foreign policy. ...
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By newsday
February 22, 2019
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National News
ZANU PF youths have postponed their planned march to express solidarity with President Emmerson Mnangagwa because the event coincided with the burial of former Cabinet minister Callistus Ndlovu at the National Heroes’ Acre tomorrow. ...
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By newsday
February 12, 2019
Columnists Opinion & Editorials Slider
The ancient wisdom of old has one classic nugget, which has remained as true as it was when old barefooted Socrates said it at the banks of the Ganges. Socrates is credited for having said that when one finds themselves in a hole they must stop digging. This is pure logic and the truth of it applies to the Zimbabwean situation with equal force. ...
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By newsday
February 7, 2019
National News
The dispute between former President Robert Mugabe’s family business, Gushungo Holdings and Seed Potato Co-op (Pvt) Ltd, is set to be resolved today at the High Court where the two parties will appear before Justice Helena Charehwa. ...
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By newsday
July 29, 2018
National News Politics Slider
NewsDay brings you live updates of the media briefing the former president Robert Gabriel Mugabe at his residence in Harare. ...
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By newsday
September 1, 2017
News
President Robert Mugabe is expected to give a speech at the interface rally scheduled to be held in Gweru today. ...
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By newsday
August 9, 2017
AMH Voices
The previous weeks and days have not been different, a quick reminder that policy blundering is part of President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF's DNA. ...
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By newsday
September 17, 2015
News
President Robert Mugabe on Thursday fired Sports, Arts and Culture minister Andrew Langa and replaced with Makhosini Hlongwane who has been minister without portfolio since last week. ...
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By newsday
June 26, 2015
News
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s call for Africa to immediately withdraw from The Hague-based International Criminal Court has put him under the spot on whether his African Union (AU) chairmanship would be of any value to Africa. ...
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By Tinotenda Samukange
May 19, 2015
National News Politics
Fresh details have emerged on how the Zanu PF government plotted to kill the late Vice-President Joshua Nkomo at his house in Bulawayo, as authorities escalated the Gukurahundi massacres, newly-released documents, seen by NewsDay, reveal Nkomo survived a mass shooting at his house in Pelandaba, where two of his aides were killed, a clear indication that the government wanted him dead. ...
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By Tinotenda Samukange
May 11, 2015
News Politics
President Robert Mugabe has reportedly refused to be dragged into “petty constituency fights” rocking Harare East after the party fielded two candidates in one constituency for the June 10 by election. ...
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By newsday
February 28, 2015
News
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has revealed how he has fallen several times at his Borrowdale home, adding that his tumble at Harare International Airport last month was nothing new. ...
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By newsday
February 19, 2015
News
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday denied accusations by Zanu PF legislators linking him to the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ)’s controversial $1,35 billion debt. ...
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By newsday
February 4, 2015
News
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe missed a step and tumbled off the podium moments after arriving from Addis Ababa Ethiopia on Wednesday sending his security team and cabinet ministers present into panic. ...
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By newsday
January 27, 2015
Business
EMPOWERMENT lobby body Affirmative Action Group (AAG) says it is planning to present President Robert Mugabe with a global leadership award for championing the indigenisation crusade. ...
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By newsday
January 22, 2015
News
A Chicago man was sentenced to 15 months in prison on Tuesday for illegal lobbying on behalf of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and others to try to lift economic sanctions against the African nation. ...
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By newsday
December 2, 2014
News
First Lady Grace Mugabe now has a road named after her.This is after the ruling Zanu PF party grabbed the open space adjacent to the Rainbow Towers Hotel and Harare Magistrates’ Court and renamed it the Robert Mugabe Square. ...
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By newsday
November 20, 2014
News
MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai yesterday said Zanu PF was in the middle of a political storm with President Robert Mugabe’s imminent exit now unavoidable as the ruling party had been hijacked by “nonentities and opportunists”. ...
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By newsday
November 4, 2014
Columnists Opinion & Editorials
Self-importance is an awful vice. A story is told of a haughty father who was obsessed by his empire. ...
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