Robert Mugabe

AS the nation commemorates Robert Mugabe National Youth Day this Sunday, political parties have expressed mixed feelings towards the late strongman's legacy with some crediting the once fierce ruler for keeping the military out of national politics. Mugabe was dethroned in a popular military assisted coup November 2017. February 21,…

“Democrats,” Camilla Nielsson’s superb 2014 documentary about the tortuous construction of Zimbabwe’s 2013 constitution, was most riveting as a snapshot of a country still trying democracy on for size, wary of what it saw in the mirror. Studying the troubled coalition government that paired president Robert Mugabe’s long-ruling ZANU-PF party…

HARARE - Businesses were shut and streets deserted in Zimbabwe's two main cities on Friday as security forces patrolled to prevent anti-government protests called by activists over corruption and economic hardship. President Emmerson Mnangagwa's critics say his government is resorting to the authoritarian tactics of the Robert Mugabe era of banning…

HARARE - Zimbabwe's agriculture minister Perrance Shiri died from the COVID-19 infection, becoming the first senior government official to succumb to the pandemic, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said on Thursday. READ: Arrests of activists continue in Zimbabwe Shiri, a retired general who helped plot a coup that ousted Robert Mugabe in 2017,…

EXPELLED Zanu PF youth league commissar, Godfrey Tsenengamu has made startling claims the country was better governed by late former President Robert Mugabe than it is now under Emmerson Mnangagwa. During the last days of Mugabe's rule, Tsenengamu took a brave stand to demand Mugabe's exit to allow his then…

photo credit: BigstockTrevor Noah Beit Hall at Plumtree School is a beautiful old building built at considerable cost over 100 years ago by early Rhodesian settlers, through which future generations, involving hundreds of thousands of boys of all races, have passed on their way to acquiring the knowledge that would…

Image copyright Cook Off Zimbabwe's first film to feature on streaming service Netflix is a romantic comedy about a struggling single mother who finds love and good fortune in a TV cooking show contest.It is a tale of hope that mirrors the production of Cook Off, made in 2017 on…

Crackdown on dissent is on the rise in Zimbabwe even as the country is under COVID-19 lockdown. The nation is recording a spate of abductions and torture common under late former leader, Robert Mugabe. Three opposition activists from the Movement for Democratic Change-Alliance (MDC-Alliance) disappeared in May after being detained…

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Marise Payne tonight branded the World Health Organisation 'not fit for purpose' and slammed China for spreading fake news as she set out Australia's global ambitions in the wake of the coronavirus crisis.The Foreign Minister said the WHO was not 'free from undue influence' after it heaped praise on China's handling of…