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Zanu-PF, ANC were publicly sworn enemies
Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF and South Africa's old National Party government were publicly sworn enemies. Privately, their relationship was a bit more complicated.On 7 and 8 February, 1983, for instanc...Published: 27 Sep 2024 at 10:42hrs | 1265 | by Peter Fabricius
Chamisa's MDC is imploding
Zimbabwe's main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change Alliance (MDC-A), is imploding as the country's ruling Zanu-PF conspires with a tiny MDC splinter group, the Movement for Democrati...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 17:21hrs | 1 | by Peter Fabricius
Ramaphosa finally starts to lean on Mnangagwa
THE Zimbabwe government wants South Africa's help with personal protective equipment (PPE) and other equipment to fight the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as support in trying to secure international loan...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 06:21hrs | 1 | by Peter Fabricius
Mugabe jumped before he was pushed
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe jumped a moment before he was pushed. He realised that his impeachment was inevitable and imminent. Resignation was the less humiliating alternative to being fired b...Published: 24 Nov 2017 at 05:39hrs | | by Peter Fabricius
South Africa begs Zimbabwe to adopt the Rand
Johannesburg - South Africa is holding quiet talks with Zimbabwe to try to persuade it to adopt the rand as its official currency, as the only way out of its growing economic and political crisis....Published: 10 Jul 2016 at 09:17hrs | | by Peter Fabricius/IOL
What Brexit means for Africa, Zimbabwe
"Fog in the channel - continent cut off." The Brookings Institution reminded us of this famous though apocryphal British headline in an analysis of Brexit this week. For Brookings, the headline epitom...Published: 24 Jun 2016 at 06:50hrs | | by Peter Fabricius
'Not even gay men can suckle babies,' say Mugabe
Addis Ababa - Not even gay men can suckle babies. This was one of the profound observations of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe as he finished chairing the AU summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, at the...Published: 02 Feb 2015 at 08:46hrs | | by Peter Fabricius
The more Grace Mugabe rises, the more Zimbabwe falls
Opra Michinguri, the powerful chairwoman of Zanu-PF's Women's League, stood down to allow Grace Mugabe to succeed her at the party's annual congress in December.Her husband then lent Grace th...Published: 14 Oct 2014 at 14:08hrs | | by Peter Fabricius
What is Grace Mugabe up to?
HARARE - What is Grace Mugabe up to?She has got everyone guessing by stepping out of her role as a shopaholic and dairy-farming First Lady to start carving a political career for herself....Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 13:12hrs | | by Peter Fabricius
Grace Mugabe has no chance in hell
TweetAccording to a government official, South Africa be...Published: 10 Oct 2014 at 05:54hrs | | by Peter Fabricius
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