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Chiefs demand Mugabe be buried according to traditions
As public wakes for late Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe have drawn to a close, traditional chiefs are demanding the body be buried according to spiritual traditions.Those requests have ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 15:07hrs | 2739 | by AFP
Magombeyi 'abduction' script clumsy
...stinks of Uncle Sam's scent and his regime change runner boys A fortnight ago, no one knew who Dr Peter Mago...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 11:18hrs | 3482 | by Shongedzai Mugwagwa
Mugabe praises shows stupidity of hating each
JUST when you think the funeral saga surrounding the late former President Robert Mugabe is finally over, new twists and turns emerge.Not to mention that everyone - virtually everyone - wants ...Published: 20 Sep 2019 at 08:41hrs | 1876 | by Conway Tutani
6 traditional questions stalling Mugabe's burial
Traditional chiefs in Zimbabwe are demanding that the body of former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe be buried according to spiritual traditions.Those requests have been part of a dispute ove...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 18:42hrs | 5059 | by AFP
Mugabe was a complex man, said Bona
There were few dry eyes by the time Bona Mugabe ended her speech.Former president Robert Mugabe's eldest child spoke from the heart to an audience that held her father in messianic reverence, ...Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 15:40hrs | 3954 | by ZimLive
Cyclone Idai food donations rotting in warehouses
Food items worth thousands of dollars donated to Cyclone Idai victims are rotting in warehouses in Chimanimani East and it is unclear why they have not been handed over to the intended beneficiaries....Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 15:36hrs | 502 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF loses hero's burial fight
HUNDREDS of Zanu-PF supporters yesterday walked away disappointed after the Mavhunga family refused to bury the late Dominic Martin Mavhunga at Mashonaland Central Provincial Heroes Acre in Bindura....Published: 19 Sep 2019 at 08:09hrs | 4292 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's funeral fuels tensions due to traditional beliefs, rituals
As public wakes for late Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe have drawn to a close, traditional chiefs are demanding the body be buried according to spiritual traditions.Those requests have been p...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 11:20hrs | 4088 | by AFP
Uncle Sam ups black ops in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's politics is sick. It is sickening. It is self-defeating. It is toxic. Of late there has been a worrying dangerous trend of Zimbabweans staging abductions and kidnappings, all aimed at false...Published: 18 Sep 2019 at 07:51hrs | 351 | by Philemon Mutedzi
Coup stress accelerated Mugabe's health challenges
LATE former President Robert Mugabe's nephew says the founding leader's health challenges took a turn for the worse when he was forcibly removed from power 2017 by his most trusted lieutenants....Published: 16 Sep 2019 at 06:48hrs | 1737 | by newzimbabwe
Robert Mugabe: Lessons to be learnt
Nations, like families, learn from past experiences.The death of Robert Mugabe, the second president of a liberated Zimbabwe, 1987-2017, brings many memories to us all.I will propose t...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:59hrs | 698 | by Kenneth Mufuka
Stop mourning Mugabe, family says
Former president Robert Mugabe's family yesterday said the nation should now just celebrate the life of the former Zanu-PF leader and stop mourning him as he lived a long life."We must stop mo...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:58hrs | 2530 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe died a sad man
FORMER Mines Minister, Walter Chidhakwa has revealed that former State President and close relative Robert Mugabe died a sad man.He was addressing mourners, among them several Heads of State a...Published: 15 Sep 2019 at 07:19hrs | 748 | by newzimbabwe
Mugabe's body to be kept in Zvimba?
The body of Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe is being kept in his birthplace, after a sparsely-attended state funeral at in the capital Harare.African leaders hailed Mr Mugabe as a li...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 23:51hrs | 7420 | by BBC
Zanu-PF supporters snub Mugabe funeral
African leaders have hailed Zimbabwe's former president Robert Mugabe as a liberation hero at his funeral in the national stadium in the capital Harare.Current Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mn...Published: 14 Sep 2019 at 14:43hrs | 5525 | by BBC
Let's be fair to Mugabe deeply flawed as he was
The death of Robert Mugabe, the only Executive Prime Minister and only Executive President that Zimbabwe had known since independence in 1980 until 2017 - all of 37 years - has shown that he was not a...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:41hrs | 1288 | by Conway Tutani
Zhuwao won't attend uncle's funeral
A nephew to the late former President Robert Mugabe, Robert Zhuwawo will not be able to attend his uncle's funeral as he is wheelchair-bound.Zhuwawo left Zimbabwe for Zambia in 2017, the year ...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:12hrs | 1922 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's own family bitterly divided
The family of Africa's strongman and fallen giant Robert Mugabe are in a squabble over the site and date of burial, not wanting to go against his last wishes.According to the family of the ex-...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 21:11hrs | 2172 | by Staff reporter
Stampede to check if Mugabe is really dead
THOUSANDS of people yesterday stampeded to view the body of the late former President Robert Mugabe at Rufaro Stadium, where he took his first oath as the country's founding Prime Minister at midnight...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 14:06hrs | 2332 | by staff reporter
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 | 196 | by The Economist
Malema takes aim at Mnangagwa but says Mugabe overstayed in power
South African opposition leader Julius Malema on Thursday pleaded with Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa to allow Robert Mugabe's exiled loyalists to bury him, telling him: "You can't be worse t...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:55hrs | 2264 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa tried to armtwist family into Mugabe Harare burial
EXILED former cabinet minister and nephew to former President Robert Mugabe, Patrick Zhuwao has accused the Emmerson Mnangagwa led government of attempts to twist the Mugabe family's arms into disresp...Published: 13 Sep 2019 at 06:54hrs | 700 | by newzimbabwe
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 | 1369 | by newzimbabwe
Mugabe spent only 5 days in Singapore hospital
Robert Mugabe's nephew, Patrick Zhuwao, gave details of the days leading up to his uncle's death, stating that he was only hospitalised five days before he passed on.This contradicts recent me...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:38hrs | 1303 | by City Press
'Keep your De Klerk, we will keep our Mugabe'
EFF leader Julius Malema gave a defiant tribute to former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe, who he called a "patriot", at a memorial service held by the party on Thursday."For so long we have ...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 21:36hrs | 575 | by City Press
WATCH: Mugabe went to Singapore to flee Mnangagwa
Late former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's nephew Patrick Zhuwawo has said his uncle left Zimbabwe for Singapore not on medical reasons but to flee President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his allies wh...Published: 12 Sep 2019 at 16:04hrs | 5731 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe nephew warns Mnangagwa
Robert Mugabe's nephew and former Cabinet minister Patrick Zhuwao on Tuesday made a dramatic intervention in the row over where the former Zimbabwe president should be laid to rest, warning that those...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 22:45hrs | 10977 | by ZimLive
Uncle Sam sides with the masses, whilst ZANU PF focusses on its self
Uncle Sam says, "Zimbabweans have long deserved better…." The latest Tweets from the US Embassy Harare, seem to have been conveniently overlooked by the ZANU PF Media folk. The comment...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 11:17hrs | 1638 | by Thabo Makuyana
Liberation movements will miss Mugabe
The death of Zimbabwe's founding father, Robert Gabriel Mugabe, whom President Emmerson Mnangagwa, described as "comrade, liberator, founder and leader", has coincided with the 10th meeting of secreta...Published: 11 Sep 2019 at 06:55hrs | 84 | by Trevor Shiri
Zimbabwe delegation holds mass for Mugabe in Singapoore
Relatives and government officials attended a mass for Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe in Singapore Tuesday, after arriving in the country where he died, to collect his body.Mugabe w...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 22:01hrs | 2508 | by Staff reporter
Fresh twist to Mugabe burial
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been made to wait a little longer on his plans to have his predecessor, Robert Mugabe, buried at the national Heroes Acre - after the late Zanu-PF leader's family dela...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 07:39hrs | 9688 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe died a 'very bitter' man, nephew says
Robert Mugabe's nephew has said the former Zimbabwean leader died a "very bitter" man.Mugabe, who died aged 95 last week, led Zimbabwe for nearly four decades until he was ousted by a coup in ...Published: 10 Sep 2019 at 07:11hrs | 1933 | by BBC
'Mugabe could have lived beyond 95'
THE late former President Robert Mugabe is likely to be buried at the national shrine this Sunday after what is expected to be a huge send off at the National Sports Stadium on Saturday, highly-placed...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 12:35hrs | 2305 | by Staff reporter
Huge Mugabe send-off planned
THE late former President Robert Mugabe is likely to be buried at the national shrine this Sunday after what is expected to be a huge send off at the National Sports Stadium on Saturday, highly-placed...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:52hrs | 1272 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF chairs pay Mugabe tribute
ZANU-PF provincial chairpersons have described the death of former President Robert Mugabe as a loss of a unifier, saying the country's history cannot be written correctly without his immense contribu...Published: 09 Sep 2019 at 07:22hrs | 173 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe burial tensions emerge
Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe is expected to be buried next weekend after his body is returned from Singapore where he died two days ago.Mugabe, a guerrilla leader who swept to power...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 21:37hrs | 2535 | by AFP
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 | 7674 | by newzimbabwe
Mugabe's 'twin' reminisces formative humble past
ROBERT Mugabe, the man, might be inscrutable to many, but to those who grew up with him, he was like any other human being. However, his formative years, upbringing, experiences and influences, helped...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:54hrs | 4116 | by Johannes Chikanya
Mugabe's family breathes fire
Former president Robert Mugabe's family says his health deteriorated after he was overthrown in a military coup in 2017 and he never forgave those behind his ouster.Mugabe, who died aged 95 at...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:51hrs | 3979 | by Staff reporter
Mthuli Ncube: Fixing Mugabe's mess
Finance minister Mthuli Ncube may not have realised quite what he was letting himself in for when he took the job of Zimbabwe's Treasury boss in September last year.With his impeccable CV - he...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:50hrs | 693 | by Financial Mail
Zimbabwe's richest: How they made their money
WHILST there is no official list of Zimbabwe's richest men and women, such as the one compiled by the Times and Forbes Magazine, the country has its fair share of rich people, including some who are m...Published: 08 Sep 2019 at 08:26hrs | 778 | by Staff reporter
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 | 7665 | 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 | 5971 | by ZimLive
Condolences pour in for Mugabe
CONDOLENCE messages from across the world yesterday poured in following the death of former President Robert Mugabe with many describing him as an icon of liberation who dedicated his life to the free...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 10:09hrs | 408 | by Staff reporter
Exiled Patrick Zhuwao told to come and bury Mugabe
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has urged exiled former cabinet Minister Patrick Zhuwao to come back to Zimbabwe and bury his uncle the former President of the Republic of Zimbabwe Robert Mug...Published: 07 Sep 2019 at 09:04hrs | 9687 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Robert Mugabe: The leader who shouldn't have been
About a kilometre from State House - the official residence of the Zimbabwean president, where Robert Mugabe lived until the mid-2000s before moving to his hideous mansion popularly known as Blue Roof...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 16:38hrs | 2414 | by Percy Zvomuya
Rest in peace, Robert Mugabe: Hero, villain, human
Robert Mugabe has died.May he rest in peace. He was one of the engineers who built the foundations of modern-day Zimbabwe. If you ever get the chance, please visit Zimbabwe. It is home...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 12:59hrs | 983 | by Elsie Eyakuze
Obituary: Robert Mugabe, Infallible and fallible in equal measure
The great liberator Robert Mugabe is no more. The first leader of a post-colonial Zimbabwe has died at the age ninety-five. A teacher by profession, Robert Mugabe was introduced to nationalistic polit...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 11:53hrs | 1126 | by Lloyd Msipa
Robert Mugabe's most famous quotes
A quick look at President Mugabe's colourful language throughout his 37-year reign as leader of Zimbabwe.Zimbabwe's former President Robert Mugabe has died aged 95.His death was an...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 08:50hrs | 3309 | by Staff reporter
Cry our beloved 'Sunshine City'
In the mid-1990s, I left my village in Guruve to work in Harare and it was a city of bliss and flamboyance. My uncle Obedience Masakara, who was streetwise aat the time, took me around the city centre...Published: 06 Sep 2019 at 06:56hrs | 89 | by Isdore Guvamombe
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