The sins of the past are forgotten: Robert Mugabe, once regarded as a cruel despot responsible for the deaths of thousands in the Gukuruhundi, the horrors of Murambatsvina and countless other examples of civil rights abuse, has been ‘renewed’ as the leader of a modern democratic nation.

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu PF party’s plan for a June poll has all but crumbled, and many are now waiting to see how the 89-year-old will publicly handle the climb-down.

JOHANNESBURG – Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has blasted former president Nelson Mandela’s reconciliation policies, and has labelled him “too much of a saint” in a television interview, The Sunday Independent reported.

A “People of the South” episode catches Robert Mugabe over lunch with his wife and children, talking of love, family, politics and Tony Blair. This is lunch with the Mugabes, a surreal glimpse of Zimbabwe’s first family as no one has ever quite seen them before.

President Robert Mugabe has sought to explain the fact that he cheated on his dying wife Sally Mugabe by having an affair with his then secretary Grace Marufu. Mugabe later married his mistress in 1996, making her First Lady.

The following is a speech by President Robert Mugabe delivered soon after appending his signature on the country’s new Constitution. Mugabe also said he was saddened by the standards of local journalism saying (it was) “as if we are not educated at all”.

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe has failed to announce dates for the much-awaited harmonised elections as he promised two weeks ago.

A point raised by Mugabe during the transition period in 1977 was that; he who controls the army and the police controls power. Because of that, the Patriotic Front insisted that an independent party should control the army and the police and not Ian Smith.

Once upon a time, in the kingdom of Dzimbahwe, a country rich in mineral resources, inhabited by a poor people, an old ruler called Gushungo, survived by keeping his poor people in his service. The poor people of Dzimbahwe were living in abject poverty.