President Robert Mugabe regards him as dependable and studiously neutral in the factional fighting between supporters of the former Zimbabwe Defence Forces chief General (retired) Solomon Mujuru and current Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa...
To ensure everyone knows who is boss a directive to the state media decreed that Robert Mugabe must always be referred to as President and Commander in Chief...
A rowdy session is in prospect following parliament's return after the winter recess and President Robert Mugabe's determination to regain control of it...
After last March's elections Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC faction won 100 seats and Arthur Mutambara's MDC faction won ten seats giving the two MDC factions a comfortable majority over President Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front which won 100 seats...
Tsvangirai had the tougher mission of persuading Western countries wedded to the view that any government allowing Robert Mugabe to stay on as President was almost doomed to repeat the patronage corruption and violence of the past or else would simply disintegrate under the weight of its own contradictions...
Vol 50 No 13 |
- SOUTH AFRICA
Zuma's protestations against President Robert Mugabe should not be taken too seriously: he welcomed Mugabe to a regional summit in Tshwane on 20 June with a bear hug...
President Robert Mugabe insists he will concede minimal ground to demands for the reform of the constitution which provides for a strong executive presidency to make all key appointments in the civil service judiciary and electoral commission...
Despite the more emollient line that some European governments are taking towards the power-sharing government in Zimbabwe Carson said on 8 June that he was deeply concerned at the ‘lack of reforms’ and that there were no plans to offer new aid or lift sanctions against President Robert Mugabe and his allies...
With Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe and Zambian President Rupiah Banda at their head the regional leaders who attended Mutharika's 22 May re-inauguration ceremony in Blantyre pronounced themselves intensely satisfied with the result...
Since the power-sharing government began work in February the Politburo of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front has leaked like a sieve with graphic details of the rows between former army chief Solomon Mujuru and Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa to succeed Robert Mugabe as First Secretary of ZANU-PF and then as presidential candidate...
