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2011 was a bad year for dictators

2011 was a bad year for dictators

HARARE – The year 2011 has proved to be a bad year for dictators. Five dictators have left power since the beginning of the year either through death or resignations under pressure as protests against their tyrannical methods of ruling intensified.

Food for thought: Nandos, dictators and fowl play

Food for thought: Nandos, dictators and fowl play

“You mustn’t try to associate with people who condemn a dictator, then do business with his cronies”. I have been insulting Mugabe for a decade now and he is still in power — and still torturing opposition candidates and stealing elections. Give the old boy his due writes Justice Malala.

Malema may ask Mugabe for money

Malema may ask Mugabe for money

ANCYL members who attended the NEC meeting on Saturday and spoke on condition of anonymity told the Sowetan that Malema complained at the meeting that the youth league’s programmes were not well funded and the office of treasurer-general Pule Mabe was not doing its work.

Iron-fisted rulers always meet similar fates

Iron-fisted rulers always meet similar fates

The bloody end of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi was as brutal and ruthless as his 42-year iron rule of the oil rich North African country. However, Gaddafi is not the only dictator who met a violent end because history shows that iron-fisted rulers have met a similar fate.

Arab Spring and Africa’s false end of history

Arab Spring and Africa’s false end of history

Africa, in the aftermath of the Libyan United Nations’ endorsed international war, has perhaps reached the ‘end of history’. The majority of Africans may not be familiar with this particular phrase and therefore it may be necessary to explain it.

Little sleep in certain quarters in Harare

Little sleep in certain quarters in Harare

Recently we have had a spate of incidents where countries have removed incumbent leaders in often violent circumstances. Leaders being dragged out of their hiding places and manhandled by troops and citizens writes Eddie Cross.

A week of captains, torturers, deported pensioners

A week of captains, torturers, deported pensioners

It’s been one of those weeks where we’ve been shaking our heads in disbelief all the time. A week of ship captains, torturers, deported pensioners and watching TV in the dark writes author Cathy Buckle

Pictures of how Gaddafi was captured

Pictures of how Gaddafi was captured

Hounded from his luxury homes, Colonel Gaddafi spent his final moments holed up in a filthy drainage pipe begging for mercy. The cowardly dictator screamed “don’t shoot, don’t shoot” as rebels finally closed in to end his 42-year reign of brutality, mayhem and murder once and for all.