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Robert Mugabe: Rule by the whip
Books he trusted. One was usually in his hand in those first, mostly happy, years as Zimbabwe's leader. He would be home at State House by 5:30pm, slamming doors so that his beloved wife Sally would k...Published: 27 mins ago | 22 | by The Economist
Mugabe: The socio-genesis, posterity of Pan-Africanism
My heart agonisingly aches in sullenness for Robert Gabriel Mugabe's demise. While weeping can only endure for a while, Mugabe's passing on offers a solid premise to recollect and curate the mortality...Published: 39 mins ago | 9 | by Richard Runyararo Mahomva
'18 people living in one room'
BULAWAYO's oldest suburb, Makokoba is still struggling to resolve the issue of shared accommodation, with over 170 houses having three to four families sharing a single room, investigations have revea...Published: 40 mins ago | 25 | by Staff reporter
Concern over sharp increase in armed robbery cases
POLICE in Midlands have expressed concern over a sharp increase in cases of armed robbery in the province.In an interview, Midlands police spokesperson, Inspector Joel Goko said the cases of p...Published: 41 mins ago | 12 | by Staff reportetr
The 'Zimbabwean' mogul in SA police's crosshairs
A BMW M4 Convertible has a base price of US$77 000 while a G63 G Wagon costs as much as US$149 000. A Ranger Rover SVR goes for US$113 000 while the potent 503-horsepower Mercedes Benz AMG C63 S Sedan...Published: 44 mins ago | 18 | by Staff reporter
South Africans need a history lesson
JULIUS Malema, leader of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), has tried telling his countrymen that the borders they are so fond of were imposed by racist imperialists.He has also told them th...Published: 46 mins ago | 21 | by Mtandazo Dube
Is grieving Grace behind Mugabe funeral plans drama?
The controversy swirling around the burial of Zimbabwe's founding leader, Robert Mugabe, centers on his widow, Grace, who has remained dramatically cloaked behind a heavy black veil as she succeeded i...Published: 10 hrs ago | 4004 | by AP
Xenophobia in Zimbabwe: Zanu-PF and Mugabe
Ever since it was founded, Zanu-PF has persistently propagated a criminal mindset that the people of Matebeleland are foreigners to this country. Its blind membership including Minister Mutodi is ...Published: 12 hrs ago | 1986 | by Moses Mzila Ndlovu
'Shame, elite using foreign hospitals after destroying local one' said Mahere - fuming she not MP
"It's embarrassing and selfish for political elites to destroy our public hospitals then seek health care abroad, destroy our airlines then hire private jets for themselves, destroy our farms then imp...Published: 20 hrs ago | 498 | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe to build mausoleum to honour dictator Mugabe - even in death his selfish greed is insatiable
President Emmerson Mnangagwa says the Zimbabwean government is building a mausoleum at the National Heroes Acre as a way of paying homage and honour to the country's late founding father Robert Mugabe...Published: 20 hrs ago | 768 | by Wilbert Mukori
Ex-fighter sheds light on Mugabe's escape to Mozambique
Robert Gabriel Mugabe's life epitomises a journey well travelled, with cumulative substance offering new horizons where outspokenness made and indeed earned him the coveted place of being the darling ...Published: 24 hrs ago | 782 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's pictures
AS the country continues to celebrate the life of the late former President Robert Mugabe, The Chronicle went to its archives to get some pictures taken by its photojournalists over the years....Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 23:23hrs | 7287 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Tsvangirai died miles away from Zimbabwe's dilapidated death traps
THE death of former president Robert Mugabe - some 8 260 kilometres away from home in far-flung Singapore - is a terrible indictment on his legacy and the state of the country's healthcare institution...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 457 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's selected quotable quotes
"Surely this is now time to beat our swords into ploughshares, so we can attend to the problems of developing our economy and our society." — Mugabe at Independence in 1980.***"Let's str...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:37hrs | 1056 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans have never been as confused as they are today: Mugabe: Hero or villain?
ZIMBABWEANS have never been as confused as they are today, following the death of Robert Mugabe, who was labelled a dictator. They are of two minds: is Mugabe a hero or a villain or is he both? They n...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 212 | by Zanda Shumba
Mugabe leaves a bitter legacy
ROBERT MUGABE'S career can be divided into three main parts.First, as an extraordinarily skilful leader who managed to dominate a fractious nationalist movement opposed to the white-supremacis...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 07:35hrs | 191 | by The Economist
Malema in Mnangagwa plea to allow G40 to bury Mugabe
SOUTH Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) leader, Julius Malema says President Emmerson Mnangagwa should allow expelled senior Zanu-PF members who are in self-imposed exile to return t...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:49hrs | 1255 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF linked analysts riled by G40
Political analysts have blasted some expelled Zanu-PF members who are using the death and funeral of former President Robert Mugabe to attack Government and score cheap political points. Forme...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 23:41hrs | 2506 | by Staff reporter
Teen bites cop to evade arrest
A TEENAGER from Bulawayo who was on the wanted list for a robbery allegedly stoned and bit a police officer who had arrested him at a funeral wake, in a bid to escape. Washington Zikhali (18) ...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 23:31hrs | 499 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe died in exile!' - Rubbish, Singapore was dictator's haunt and very costly one to the nation
The sheer arrogance, contemptuous disregard for the truth and heartless indifference to the suffering of the masses by the Zanu-PF thugs has never seize to amaze me. Never!Zimbabwe's former dictat...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 22:10hrs | 542 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Chamisa gets cosy with Grace Mugabe
Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leader Nelson Chamisa on Thursday went to Robert Mugabe's family home to pay his respects to the former leader's widow and children.Chamisa was accompanied...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:09hrs | 4544 | by ZImLive
'Justice is a train that's nearly always late' - too late for Mugabe but must catch the rest
"My first encounter with President Robert Gabriel Mugabe was in 2011 at the Chinhoyi University of Technology (CUT) Graduation Ceremony, where he had been invited to attend an event there as the Guest...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 16:21hrs | 1095 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa throws Ndebeles under the bus
Cde Paul Siwela told Thabo Mdluli of Newzroom Afrika that Shona- Ndebele animosity is exacerbated by the insensitivity of calling Robert Mugabe a hero as he questioned the standard used to give Mugabe...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 08:07hrs | 9709 | by Israel Dube
AUDIO: Energy Mutodi unearthes plot to oust Mnangagwa
Deputy Information Minister Dr Energy Mutodi warned young people to be alert and on the look out for Anti President Emmerson Mnangagwa elements who are harbouring Presidential ambitions....Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 14:20hrs | 7710 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Foreign students to stay in UK for 2 years after finishing studies
International students will be allowed to stay in the UK for two years after graduation to find a job, under new proposals announced by the Home Office.The move reverses a decision made in 201...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 13:50hrs | 1973 | by BBC
Of MDC anniversary, demos and US hand
Violence runs in the MDC's deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), bearing footprints of the United States of America, which has been supporting the opposition outfit in a shameless regime change project, since ...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 07:00hrs | 182 | by Elijah Chihota
Zimbabwe, China sign ICT pact
ZIMBABWE and China yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the advancement of ICTs between the two countries, in yet another sign of the growing interest of cooperation between the tw...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 06:54hrs | 99 | by Staff reporter
Africa has potential of building economical walls made of platinum
Africa has potential of building economical walls made of platinum if full implement holistic policies and African Continental Free Trade AgreementIn 2009, the Democratic Republic of the Congo...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 15:27hrs | 374 | by Enos Denhere
Chamisa being isolated over dialogue
MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa is increasingly being isolated by some pro-constitutionalism members of his national executive, the Harare Post can exclusively reveal. An aide to a member of the pa...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 15:26hrs | 2377 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Of MDC demonstrations and the US hand
The MDC demonstrations which were pencilled to start in Harare on 16 August and the spread to the rest of the country these past weeks should not be treated in isolation as a mere demonstration agains...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 15:25hrs | 1111 | by Elijah Chihota
It's time the opposition competed on ideas
A cursory perusal of last week's mainstream and online media publications painted a gloomy picture of the opposition's compound. In one online media story, the MDC leader, Nelson Chamisa is reported t...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 15:22hrs | 403 | by Nobleman Runyanga
Zim Dollar rates tumbles ahead of monitory policy
The Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) is expected to announce the Mid-Term Monitory Policy statement in the coming days. The market is not anticipating major changes to the country's economic fortunes fr...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 07:47hrs | 10131 | by Victor Bhoroma
Mugabe divides Chamisa's MDC
DIVISIONS have emerged within the MDC on how to react to former State President and Zanu-PF strongman Robert Mugabe's death in Singapore on Friday.While the party's leadership including presid...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 07:29hrs | 2045 | by newzimbabwe
Demo planned at Mugabe funeral
DIVISIONS have emerged within the MDC on how to react to former State President and Zanu-PF strongman Robert Mugabe's death in Singapore on Friday.While the party's leadership including presid...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 07:14hrs | 2920 | by newzimbabwe
Zimnat helps Providence Pangira fulfil his dream
Providence Pangira, who achieved brilliant results at Ordinary and Advanced Level despite his deprived background but lacked the funds to go to university, may be able to fulfil his dreams after all t...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 14:17hrs | 847 | by Agencies
Pupurai Togarepi mourns Mugabe
The nation has lost a giant of the liberation struggle and a colossus that stood against imperialism in former President Robert Mugabe, Zanu-PF secretary for Youth Affairs Pupurai Togarepi has said. ...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:21hrs | 234 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti says Mugabe was a hero
ROBERT Mugabe was a product of a certain era, an era that confronted the colonial regime powder for powder, blow for blow, so violence came naturally to him.His legacy shouldn't be detracted b...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 18:01hrs | 1608 | by Tendai Biti
Mugabe: Despot, narcissist and murderer
The one-time hero has left behind a country in ruins, its economy in tatters, its moral fabric torn by poverty and sufferingRobert Gabriel Mugabe's name should have been there in the pantheon ...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 17:55hrs | 708 | by Mondli Makhanya
Mnangagwa divides G40
GOVERNMENT has dispelled social media reports it had opened doors for G40 kingpin and ex-Cabinet Minister Jonathan Moyo and other exiled members of the now decimated Zanu-PF faction to return home for...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:55hrs | 7655 | by newzimbabwe
Zanu-PF salutes colossus Mugabe
THE Revolutionary party ZanuPF has sent its condolence message to the family of the country's late founding father and former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe.Mugabe, 95, died in Singapore on F...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:55hrs | 572 | by Staff reporter
Don't repeat Mugabe's mistakes
The late Robert Mugabe leaves behind a very complicated legacy.Mugabe, who died at a Singapore hospital in the early hours of September 6, is being eulogised by some as an icon of the liberati...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:48hrs | 351 | by Editorial - The Standard
Robert and Grace Mugabe's US$1 billion fortune
Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace built up a huge personal fortune and property empire while their countrymen suffered in the starvation and grinding poverty that his brutal regime brought about....Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:26hrs | 2781 | by Mail Online
Mugabe's nephew pained by the loss
Robert Mugabe, the former guerrilla hero turned despot who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years until the military forced him out, has died aged 95.First heralded as a liberator who rid the former Brit...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 21:10hrs | 1156 | by AFP
Mugabe's relatives divided over the location and nature of the funeral
Officials and family members are arguing over the arrangements for the burial of Robert Mugabe, the former Zimbabwean president who died in Singapore last week aged 95.High-ranking members of ...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 21:07hrs | 7565 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's loyalists will not get a chance to bury him
Dozens of Robert Mugabe's loyalists who were with him right until the end will not get a chance to bury him, after being scattered by Zimbabwe's new rulers who are pursuing them with criminal charges....Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 21:06hrs | 1648 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe family bans Matemadanda, Muchinguri from funeral
Robert Mugabe's family has requested that two senior Zanu-PF officials do not attend his funeral, ZimLive reported.Zanu-PF chairperson and defence minister Oppah Muchinguri and the party's pol...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 20:59hrs | 5960 | by ZimLive
What happens to Grace now that Robert Mugabe is gone?
Zimbabweans may have mixed feelings about the death of Robert Mugabe: in the end, he was a brutal despot who left his country divided and impoverished. But he was also the founding father of the natio...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 20:51hrs | 5222 | by Farai Sevenzo and Tara John, CNN
How Mugabe became Africa's fallen angel
A COMPLEX character who ruthlessly pursued his goals, Robert Mugabe, leaves a mixed legacy: an independence leader who built his country up, then helped destroy it.Three great questions domina...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 10:14hrs | 2399 | by The Guardian
Mixed reactions to Mugabe death
ZIMBABWEANS and political leaders from across the globe yesterday expressed mixed reactions to news of the death of former President Robert Mugabe, with some describing him as a judicious leader while...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 10:11hrs | 489 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's youths in flash demonstration
POLICE and security services were Friday caught out after MDC youths stormed the capital in a flash demonstration that took them to Parliament where they left their placards with all sorts of messages...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 10:10hrs | 3299 | by newzimbabwe
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