Jump to navigation

Zimbabwe

Robert Gabriel Mugabe

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


Displaying 131-140 out of 704 results.

Struggles with the economy

Amid chaotic provincial party elections President Robert Mugabe tried to refocus the party's obsession away from the succession and on to the economy and election promises at last week's ZANU-PF Politburo and Central Committee meetings (AC Vol 54 No 23 ZANU-PF power struggles resume)...


ZANU-PF power struggles resume

With Morgan Tsvangirai worrying about his exit package and his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) no longer a parliamentary threat the ZANU-PF leadership can put the fast-fading nightmare of four years' power-sharing behind it and get on with the business of competing for the succession to President Robert Mugabe who turns 90 in February...


Van Hoogstraten in airline sell-off

Van Hoogstraten long an admirer of President Robert Mugabe and a major donor to the governing Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) is reportedly Zimbabwe's biggest landowner...


The sanctions card is worn out

Sanctions are apparently responsible for all this President Robert Mugabe repeated on his visit to the UN General Assembly in New York in September...


Banda's fortunes turn

Since her time as Foreign Affairs Minister to the late President Bingu wa Mutharika Banda has been close to Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe and she has equally strong ties with Zambia's President Michael Sata...


Glencore and the fuel firms

The law is deeply worrying to foreign investors: many are now waiting to see if President Robert Mugabe's new government will implement it strictly...


ZANU-PF expands its business empire

In return for Zimbabwe's military assistance Kabila offered leases on diamond fields and President Robert Mugabe's government went into partnership with Omani trader Thamer bin Saeed al Shanfari (AC Vol 41 No 11 Glittering prizes from the war)...


Gems make friends

The 2002 EU ban was imposed because the ZMDC was believed to be channelling funds to President Robert Mugabe...


Sakunda fuels rumours

'The highest level'Sakunda's deals are cut ‘at the highest level' of government with the involvement of President Robert Mugabe's office industry sources have told Africa Confidential...


Mugabe shuffles the pack, again

It took President Robert Mugabe and his advisors the best part of a month to name a cabinet that mainly redistributes the top jobs to the old political elite sidelines some of the more bumptious elements but brings in a younger and more business-savvy generation of junior ministers...


Displaying 131-140 out of 704 results.