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Toronto Star
March 27, 2018
HARARE, Zimbabwe—Police in Zimbabwe are investigating a case of alleged ivory smuggling linked to the wife of former leader Robert Mugabe, a police spokesperson said Monday. Authorities opened an investigation after a whistleblower came forward with information and no one has yet been charged,Ãâà...
VOA Zimbabwe
March 26, 2018
Former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has blamed the excesses of the North Korean-trained Fifth Brigade on then intelligence chief Emmerson Mnangagwa and David Stannard, a top operative of the government spy network, the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO). Mugabe, who set up anÃâà...
The Zimbabwe Mail
March 23, 2018
HARARE – Embattled former President Robert Mugabe who was kicked out of a mineral rich farm in Mazowe early this year is not letting go and is fighting to regain the farm after the High Court granted him an order for his case to be heard on an urgent basis. According to State media, Mr Mugabe, claimsÃâà...
Mail & Guardian
March 23, 2018
Last week, Robert Mugabe gave his first media interview since being ousted from State House in November. Although as eloquent as ever, his comments revealed that the once-impregnable president has yet to come to terms with his new station in life. By turns, he was the defiant, demagogic strongman ofÃâà...
News24
March 20, 2018
Harare - Ahead of Zimbabwe's crucial elections this year, the biggest opposition party has selected a charismatic lawyer and pastor to challenge the military-backed president in the first vote without former leader Robert Mugabe in decades. It will be a hard road for 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa, whoÃâà...
Vanguard
March 20, 2018
Robert Mugabe, former Zimbabwean President risked being expelled from the ruling Zanu-PF party following his perceived anti-party activity, a Senior Party Official has said on Monday. Mugabe. Secretary for legal affairs Paul Mangwana told state media that Mugabe risked losing his party membership andÃâà...
News24
March 20, 2018
Harare - Zimbabwe's ruling party says Robert Mugabe could lose his immunity and privileges as a former head of state and face expulsion from the party. This comes after Mugabe last week told journalists that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had been imposed by the army and was in office illegally.
Independent Online
March 20, 2018
CAPE TOWN - Robert Mugabe is reportedly pleading poverty, claiming that he had to declare all his assets outside the country, reports Times Live. This comes after the former Zimbabwe president was summoned to return funds that were sent out of the country illegally. Current Zimbabwe PresidentÃâà...
The Herald
March 19, 2018
FORMER Finance Minister Mr Tendai Biti has denounced Mr Robert Mugabe for denigrating the new dispensation, saying the former president should be reminded that he is no longer in Government. Last week, Mr Mugabe told journalists that the new Government was “illegitimate” and that a meetingÃâà...
Times LIVE
March 18, 2018
Ousted leader feels 'betrayed' by Zuma and other leaders. 18 March 2018 - 00:01 By MZILIKAZI wa AFRIKA and RAY NDLOVU. Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe says he has heeded the call to declare all assets outside the country - but they amount only to two properties in South Africa and one in Hong Kong.
Daily Nation
March 17, 2018
Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe described his departure from office in November as a "coup d'etat" that "we must undo" in his first TV interview. Mugabe told his interviewers he did not hate his successor, but alleged that the latter had "betrayed the whole nation". Mugabe sent shockwavesÃâà...
TVNZ
March 17, 2018
Watch: 'We must undo this disgrace' – former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe challenges President Mnangagwa's rise to power. now. share. Source: 1 NEWS. Former president Robert Mugabe said yesterday he is willing to work with President Emmerson Mnangagwa, but said the new leader "must be proper".
CNBC
March 17, 2018
Ousted former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has said that he doesn't hate his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa, speaking in his first televised interviews since leaving office. "I don't want to be president again. I'm 94," Mugabe added. Mnangagwa's presidency thus far has been characterized byÃâà...
The Guardian
March 16, 2018
Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe described his departure from office in November as a “coup d'etat” that “we must undo” in his first TV interview since then, aired on Thursday. Mugabe, 94, spoke slowly but clearly to South Africa's SABC broadcaster from an office in Harare, dressed in a greyÃâà...
Irish Examiner
March 16, 2018
Former Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe has given his first interview since being forced from power in November, describing his removal as a "coup" and a "disgrace". Mr Mugabe, 94, told South African broadcaster SABC in the broadcast aired on Thursday that he was pushed out by the military, whichÃâà...
News24
March 15, 2018
Harare - Here's a scenario suggested recently by Zimbabwe's popular commentator Prophet Cynic: "You wake up from a long coma only to find Mugabe now an opposition leader… and Zanu-PF is now a puppet of the West." Persuaded to resign in a military takeover last November, the 94-year-old formerÃâà...
BizNews
March 9, 2018
Former Zimbabwean first lady Grace Mugabe and her husband Robert Mugabe. Retired army brigadier and Zanu-PF MP Ambrose Mutinhiri, a veteran of the liberation struggle of the 1970s, resigned from the party and from Parliament a week ago, as a protest against the military coup which had oustedÃâà...
News24
March 5, 2018
Harare - A former army brigadier who quit Zimbabwe's ruling party to protest the removal of former leader Robert Mugabe has formed a new political party. Ambrose Mutinhiri, a veteran of the 1970s war against white minority rule, met Mugabe on Sunday before announcing he had formed an oppositionÃâà...
News24
March 1, 2018
Headlands - When the riot police arrived, Zimbabwean farmworker Mary Mhuriyengwe saw her life fall apart as her job and home disappeared in the ruthless land seizures that defined Robert Mugabe's rule. Mhuriyengwe, 35, watched as police carrying AK-47 rifles released teargas to force white farmerÃâà...
News24
February 28, 2018
Last week former president Robert Mugabe is reported to have told guests at his private 94th birthday party that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government was persecuting his wife over the doctorate by targeting those responsible for awarding it to her. "They are busy fighting the degree which we allÃâà...
News24
February 28, 2018
Harare – Zimbabwean former freedom fighters have reportedly rebuked ex-president Robert Mugabe for criticising the new administration, saying that the nonagenarian "was dreaming" if he believed that he could rule the southern African country again. Mugabe, who was ousted in November last year,Ãâà...
News24
February 27, 2018
Harare – Zimbabwean former freedom fighters have reportedly rebuked ex-president Robert Mugabe for criticising the new administration, saying that the nonagenarian "was dreaming" if he believed that he could rule the southern African country again. Mugabe, who was ousted in November last year,Ãâà...
News24
February 27, 2018
Harare – A senior Zanu-PF official has reportedly claimed that ex-president Robert Mugabe was forced to step down by the ruling Zanu-PF party's central committee - not by the army. According to the state-owned Chronicle newspaper, addressing scores of Zanu-PF supporters at the Nemamwa in MasvingoÃâà...
Eyewitness News
February 26, 2018
HARARE – Former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe has celebrated a lavish 94th birthday party after all, using it to say that the man who ousted him should apologise. Massive rallies were held to mark Mugabe's birthdays while he was in power but this year's celebration was an exclusive party held atÃâà...
News24
February 25, 2018
Harare - Hang on, didn't Zimbabwe's ex-president Robert Mugabe just tell an Africa Union chief he didn't feel safe and that his wife Grace was in tears every day? These pics from Mugabe's glitzy private 94th birthday party in Harare over the weekend certainly don't make the former first couple look thatÃâà...
News24
February 22, 2018
Harare – Zimbabwe's ex-president Robert Mugabe has reportedly told the visiting African Union commission chairperson Moussa Faki Mahamat that he stepped down from his post for the sake of "peace and development" following a military intervention in November. Speaking to journalists in Harare afterÃâà...
News24
February 20, 2018
Harare – Zimbabwe's ex-president Robert Mugabe is reportedly not going to have his regular extravagant birthday celebrations this year despite the 21st of February being declared a public holiday. Born on February 21, 1924, Mugabe trained as a teacher and taught in what was then Rhodesia and GhanaÃâà...
africanews
February 20, 2018
The day was previously celebrated as the Day of the 21st February Movement in honour of former president Robert Mugabe's leadership principles. Robert Mugabe was born on February 21st, 1924 and will be making 94 years of age this year. It is hereby declared that the 21st of February every yearÃâà...
Quartz
February 14, 2018
Morgan Tsvangirai, the man best known for opposing the rule of Robert Mugabe, has died. Tsvangirai, 65, died on Feb. 14, a senior member of his party tweeted. Tsvangirai died in South Africa, where he was being treated for colon cancer at a hospital in Johannesburg. Tsvangirai was the face ofÃâà...
News24
December 31, 1999
Harare – Zimbabwean former leader Robert Mugabe, 94, has reportedly expressed his bitterness over the "way he was toppled", saying he is not ready for talks with his successor President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mugabe said this as the rift between him and Mnangagwa was said to be "escalating".
Eyewitness News
December 31, 1999
HARARE - Zimbabwe's cash crisis is still severe but one person who has no intention of queuing at the bank is former president Robert Mugabe. Leaked documents show the central bank has been asked to pay his retirement package and monthly pension in cash, even though his government was blamedÃâà...
NewsDay
December 31, 1999
Bulawayo residents have expressed mixed feelings over former President Robert Mugabe's birthday, which has been declared a public holiday, which was celebrated on Wednesday, with some describing it as inconsequential to future generations, given the former leaders' failure to address the youth'sÃâà...
DailyNews
December 31, 1999
HARARE - Former president Robert Mugabe's son Tinotenda Robert Junior, who has traded the basketball court to join the lucrative fashion industry, says his parents do not want him to have it easy in his new line of business and that he has to learn all the ropes within the industry. The 26-year-old who isÃâà...
