Zimbabwe’s swag merchants love their Giorgio Armani, Paul Smith and Hugo Boss. Now they are also buying their RG Mugabe.
The never-say-die leader claims God has given him a longer life than most so he won’t let Zimbabweans down. Besides, they can’t be left on their own.
Denials by opposition leader and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai that he paid $36 000 to marry his pregnant girlfriend have ignited a media storm.
The rooster has long been Robert Mugabe’s party symbol and it perches proudly atop the Zanu-PF headquarters.
Zimbabwe’s opposition party claims that illegal trading is costing the country billions.
In decaying hostels in Mbare, Harare’s poorest township, Zanu-PF has been raising Chipangano, its feared urban militia.
Zanu-PF militia appears to be out of control, ignoring President Robert Mugabe’s pleas.
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/ 4 November 2011
The one enduring image many Zimbabweans have is of President Robert Mugabe boarding an aeroplane, with a lengthy entourage in tow.
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/ 28 October 2011
Public hearings for new broadcasters are being keenly watched by Zimbabweans desperate to be free of decades of the state broadcaster’s tedium.
Zimbabwe’s politicians are scrambling to gain control of trusts being set up for local communities to take up stakes in large foreign mining companies