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Robert Gabriel Mugabe

Date of Birth: 21 February 1924
Place of Birth: Zvimba
Died: 6 September 2019


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Mangudya’s airborne makeover restores London flights

On 22 July the first Air Zimbabwe flight to London in over a decade left Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport carrying a cabin full of ministers to Gatwick Airport for a grand reopening ceremony and some retail therapy...

In 2016 then-President Robert Mugabe's son-in-law Simba Chikore was appointed Chief Operating Officer of the airline but was dismissed when Mugabe was deposed in Mnangagwa's 2017 coup...


Mnangagwa buys another two years

Mnangagwa and his allies used similar claims against founding President Robert Mugabe in the run-up to the October 2017 coup d'état (AC Vol 58 No 23 Mugabe drops the crocodile)...


Mnangagwa’s war on the constitution

It would also help Mnangagwa whose personal standing has never matched that of the country's founding President Robert Mugabe overthrown in the 2017 coup d'état...


Ministers back Mnangagwa’s forever presidency

The bill abolishes the role of ‘First Vice-President' – clearly targeting the incumbent General Constantino Chiwenga the former Commander of the Defence Forces who overthrew President Robert Mugabe in 2017 (AC Vol 58 No 23 The crocodile snaps back)...

Older Zimbabweans recall the 2000 campaign led by Morgan Tsvangirai and the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) against President Robert Mugabe's constitutional reforms which galvanised opposition activism...


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Ghosts of Mugabe are haunting Whitehall

At the height of Prime Minister Tony Blair's ‘War on Terror' in 2004 British officials mulled whether a military operation could depose the ‘depressingly fit' Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe according to documents released by Whitehall's National Archives over the Christmas period...

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ZANU-PF backs Mnangagwa’s 2030 power bid amid rising tensions

This resolution directly contradicts Zimbabwe's constitution which in 2013 introduced a two-term limit (of a maximum five years each) to attempt to contain President Mnangagwa's long-serving predecessor Robert Mugabe...

It was Chiwenga's authority in the military that enabled him to persuade other senior officers to overthrow Robert Gabriel Mugabe in October 2017...


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