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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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What mattered was the football

Robert Mugabe has earned a reputation as one of the globe's leading gatecrashers but his poise self-confidence and chutzpah have not rubbed off on his travelling entourage...


Restless spirits

In his final years as Robert Mugabe's Vice-President (and owner of several rich farms) Joshua was deeply upset at what the President was doing to the country...


Half a century, half the battle

The anniversary attracted a good guest list: two kings (Belgium Swaziland) and heads of state including Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe Uganda’s Yoweri Museveni and Rwanda’s Paul Kagame who arrived late enough to delay the parade for several hours...


Diplomacy by other means

We hear that Zuma’s office has just sent a stern note to the three principals of 2008’s Global Political Agreement (GPA) – Robert Mugabe Arthur Mutambara and Morgan Tsvangirai – firmly setting out the limits of South Africa’s mediating role if the parties do not keep to their undertakings...


Football fever, faction fever

He had supported Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s land reform programme sung ‘Kill the Boer’ evicted a BBC journalist from a press conference and ridiculed President Zuma saying he was worse than Mbeki...


Abbey's all clear

Whether or not it was The Herald’s tactics that forced Chikane’s hand his final report will be much to the liking of President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and particularly to that of Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa who as Chairman of the Joint Operations Command takes a special interest in the military occupation of the Marange fields...


Squashing the judges

The acquittal of Roy Bennett Deputy Minister-designate of Agriculture and Treasurer of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) on 10 May gave President Robert Mugabe the chance to show his commitment to power-sharing...


Diamond disputes

Mbada’s Chairman is Air Vice-Marshall (Retired) Robert Mhlanga said to be close to President Robert Mugabe whose helicopter he once flew...


The battle around Banda

Banda is popular with fellow leaders in the region including Zimbabwe’s Robert Mugabe South Africa’s Jacob Zuma Swaziland’s King Mswati and Congo-Kinshasa’s Joseph Kabila...


In a league of his own

Zuma and ANC leaders were also fuming about Malema’s support for President Robert Mugabe and his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front backing their disastrous land reform and indigenisation policies and denigrating ZANU-PF’s coalition partner the Movement for Democratic Change calling it a ‘popcorn’ party...


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