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Mugabe dozes off during a meeting
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Mugabe’s alternative UN General Assembly speech

I stayed up last night to watch live the speech by President Mugabe at the UN General Assembly meeting in New York. When I was a boy, we would walk for miles to go and listen to Mugabe. In those days, he was eloquent, sharp and promising.

Zimbabwe set for elections in March 2013
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Zimbabwe set for elections in March 2013

Joint parliamentary and presidential elections in Zimbabwe will now be held at the end of March 2013, according to a High Court appeal launched by President Robert Mugabe who wants a delay in the holding of three by-elections.

Oliver Mtukudzi cuts his birthday cake while his wife Daisy(second left) looks on during a private dinner held at Pakare Paye Arts Centre in Norton on Saturday
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Absent Mugabe hosts dinner for Mtukudzi at 60

President Mugabe and his wife Grace Mugabe treated music superstar Oliver Mtukudzi to a lavish dinner on his 60th birthday held at the singer’s multi-million dollar Pakare Paye Arts Centre in Norton at the weekend.

The key men behind the Gukurahundi Massacres: Robert Mugabe (President), Emmerson Mnangagwa (then State Security Minister) and Perrence Shiri (then commander of the 5th Brigade).
Lest We Forget / News

Gukurahundi Massacres: Memories Drenched in Blood

Starting next week Nehanda Radio.com will run a series looking at the slaughter of an estimated 20 000 innocent civilians by Robert Mugabe’s crack 5th Brigade army unit in the Matabeleland and Midlands Provinces in the eighties.

LESOTHO Prime Minister Tom Motsoahae Thabane, on what the government called a “state visit” to Zimbabwe last week
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Lesotho PM’s visit had a diplomatic sub-text

LESOTHO Prime Minister Tom Motsoahae Thabane, on what the government called a “state visit” to Zimbabwe last week, said his country was praying for President Robert Mugabe to take a leading role in Sadc if he finishes with the country’s politics. MuckRacker

MDC-N wants expelled MP’s barred from by-elections
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MDC-N wants expelled MP’s barred from by-elections

The Professor Welshman Ncube-led MDC wants its expelled legislators to be barred from contesting the pending by-elections because of the Global Political Agreement moratorium that stops parties in Government from contesting each other.

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.

Welshman Ncube has claimed Robert Mugabe sleeps during SADC meetings (Above: Mugabe attending various international conferences)
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Ncube claims Mugabe sleeps at SADC meetings

The leader of the smaller MDC formation Professor Welshman Ncube has claimed that ZANU PF’s 88 year old leader Robert Mugabe sleeps during meetings of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).

Presidential spokesman George Charamba
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Mugabe rebukes off track spokesman

Media, Information and Publicity secretary and Presidential spokesperson George Charamba could have landed himself in “hot soup” following his utterances that Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara will remain a principal in the wobbly inclusive government.

Tense looking Arthur Mutambara standing next to Welshman Ncube at the later disputed congress
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Charamba says Mutambara remains principal

Professor Arthur Mutambara remains a Principal and Deputy Prime Minister in the inclusive Government, Presidential spokesperson Mr George Charamba has said. This is despite the decision taken by Sadc at its recent summit in Maputo, Mozambique, to recognise Professor Welshman Ncube as the leader of the MDC.

‘Dinner with Mugabe’ author commits suicide
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‘Dinner with Mugabe’ author commits suicide

Johannesburg – Writer and freelance journalist Heidi Holland (64), who rose to fame with her 2008 controversial biography of President Robert Mugabe, “Dinner with Mugabe” has died.

Sadza Boiz blast Mugabe in new song
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Sadza Boiz blast Mugabe in new song

Rarely do hip-hop artistes tackle political issues in their music, but the exceptional Sadza Boiz Botswana-based, Zimbabwean hip-hop crew has broken this rule by taking a swipe at President Mugabe.

Sanctions have not hurt ordinary people: Makoni
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Sanctions have not hurt ordinary people: Makoni

Former Zanu-PF Politburo member Dr Simba Makoni has said that sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe by the US were not affecting ordinary people. Makoni also said the current indigenisation laws discriminated against whites.

Court frees man found with ‘nude’ Mugabe pictures
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Court frees man found with ‘nude’ Mugabe pictures

A Zimbabwean man was freed after being detained since April for having cartoons on his cell phone that showed a bony-looking Robert Mugabe in the nude, his lawyers said Wednesday.

The symbiotic relationship between Mugabe and the British did not end with rhetorical support and money changing hands, but it extended to royal endorsement for Mugabe and his policies.
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Zimbabwe sanctions have served no purpose

Targeted sanctions on officials and companies linked to Mugabe’s regime have served no purpose and the (UK) Foreign Office is right to begin lifting them argues British journalist Peter Oborne.