Post Tagged with: "Jacob Zuma"

Zambia's Vice President Guy Scot (L) congratulates Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe on signing Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa treaties (COMESA) during the 15th COMESA Summit in Lilongwe on October 14, 2011.
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Zambia VP comments rile South Africa

South Africa has demanded an explanation from Zambia on remarks its vice-president Guy Scott made about President Jacob Zuma. Scott told a newspaper Zuma was like former apartheid leader FW de Klerk and that South Africans were “backward”.

Outrage over Mandela ‘exclusive’ footage
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Outrage over Mandela ‘exclusive’ footage

CAPE TOWN – Social media commentators on Monday rounded on the ANC and the SABC after new footage of Nelson Mandela was released showing a clearly ailing former president, despite the party’s earlier assurances to the contrary.

Malema in Zimbabwe ‘only for wedding’
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Malema in Zimbabwe ‘only for wedding’

The woman who invited expelled African National Congress (ANC) youth league leader Julius Malema to Zimbabwe has claimed that the rabble-rouser is only in the country to attend her wedding at the Chisipite Gardens on Saturday.

Time running out for Mugabe: The Zanu PF dictator seen here with South African President Jacob Zuma
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Mugabe Meets Zuma on Stalled Constitution

President Robert Mugabe has met with South African President Jacob Zuma on the sidelines of the United Nations general assembly in New York late on Tuesday and assured him that the adoption of a new constitution was on track.

Former African National Congress’ Youth League leader Julius Malema addresses platinium miners at London-listed Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine Photo: AFP
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ANC furious with Zanu PF over Malema

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF and some secret service agents have been fingered by South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) in a sinister plot to derail that country’s economy by fanning mines unrest.

Hold this for me: The 87 year old Zanu PF leader stepped out of his armoured Mercedes limousine and handed the bag over to one of his bodyguards (picture by New Zimbabwe.com)
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Mugabe’s US$100m ‘bag’ of tricks

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s henchmen have escalated a plan to discredit and malign the octogenarian leader’s political enemies, including South African president Jacob Zuma, through a series of dirty tricks.

Blessing Vava
News / Opinion

We are tired of this political posturing

Last week South African president Jacob Zuma, the SADC appointed facilitator in the GPA, dispatched his facilitation team to among other issues, break the so-called impasse in the constitution making process writes Blessing Vava.

Police officers surround the bodies of miners after opening fire on a crowd at the Lonmin platinum mine in South Africa
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SA miners charged with murder of colleagues killed by police

The 270 miners arrested during violent strikes in South Africa have been charged with the murder of their 34 colleagues who were shot dead by police. This has sparked calls from former ANC youth leader Julius Malema for a ‘revolution in the mining sector’.

Sadc summit on Zimbabwe looms
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Sadc summit on Zimbabwe looms

HARARE – Southern Africa’s regional body Sadc looks set to convene an extraordinary summit on Zimbabwe after disagreements over a new constitution threatened to disrupt a roadmap to a fresh election.

Zanu PF threaten election over deadlock
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Zanu PF threaten election over deadlock

Zimbabwe could be headed for a general election after Robert Mugabe’s regime threatened its coalition partners claiming that any deadlock over the draft Constitution is a call for an immediate general election under the old Constitution.

Professor Susan Booysen
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Open Letter To Susan Booysen: Survey Flawed

Robert Mugabe, is enjoying a surge of popularity that could propel him to victory in the country’s next elections, a controversial poll commissioned by Freedom House and done by the Mass Public Opinion Institute claimed last week.

No joy for Zimbabwe from old men of SADC
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No joy for Zimbabwe from old men of SADC

In Maputo, Malawi’s President Joyce Banda was inducted as the newest member of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) heads of state, a group that had, until now, been an exclusive old boys’ club.

South Africa police say they killed 34 miners
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South Africa police say they killed 34 miners

Frantic wives searched for missing loved ones, President Jacob Zuma rushed home from a regional summit and some miners vowed a fight to the death as police announced a shocking casualty toll from the previous day’s shooting by officers of striking miners.

UNDER SPOTLIGHT... President Robert Mugabe speaks to journalists soon after holding talks with South Africa's President Jacob Zuma at a Harare hotel Wednesday night. (Pic: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi.
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Mugabe flies into Sadc storm

President Robert Mugabe walks into a storm at a Sadc summit that begins in Maputo Friday, as mediator South African President Jacob Zuma presents a report to the regional organ showing that a new constitution is being stalled by sharp differences in Zanu PF.

Zuma holds talks with Zimbabwe leaders
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Zuma holds talks with Zimbabwe leaders

HARARE – South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma was last night locked in crucial talks with President Robert Mugabe and other “unity” government leaders, as Sadc gets jittery over a restive military and deadlock on a new constitution.