Mugabe calls for peace while his supporters beat up opponents outside parliament
President Robert Mugabe on Tuesday 6 September 2011 at the opening of the Fourth Session of the Seventh Parliament preached peace for the second time in less than one month but the conduct of some of his supporters left his sincerity questionable. Supporters of President Robert Mugabe’s ZANU PF party on Tuesday assaulted a Harare [...]
Mugabe is nervous as Zimbabweans are urged to emulate Arab pro-democracy protests
In Zimbabwe, a man will go on trial next month over a Facebook post that pro-democracy protests in Egypt had sent shockwaves to the world’s dictators and were worth imitating, a report said Tuesday. The privately-owned NewsDay said a magistrate in Bulawayo had set a June 10 trial date for Vikas Mavhudzi who faces a charge [...]
Human rights groups accuse Robert Mugabe of using army and police to intimidate opposition
JOHANNESBURG, March 23, 2011 (AFP) – Zimbabwe rights groups accused President Robert Mugabe on Wednesday of using the army and police to intimidate the opposition and other activists ahead of elections expected later this year. ”We are bracing ourselves for a difficult time in Zimbabwe. Every time there are elections there is violence,” Crisis in Zimbabwe [...]
Mugabe the maniac charges six activists of treason for discussing protests in Egypt
HARARE, March 11, 2011 (AFP) – Zimbabwe’s high court said Friday it would rule next week on a bail application by six activists charged with treason for discussing the mass protests in Egypt that toppled president Hosni Mubarak. ”The bail matter is postponed to 16 March to enable the state to file their response,” justice Susan [...]
Mugabe orders the arrest of a Journalist in Zimbabwe
The dictator in Zimbabwe has struck again. This time on a defenceless journalist. Robert Mugabe’s ruthless regime of intimidation continues in a country where he has stifled all forms of democratic engagement and human rights. This naïve and brutish Head of State, believes he owns Zimbabwe. And his reckless bandits of ZANU-PF veterans have bought [...]
Mugabe the Dictator is Calling for an End to Violence in Zimbabwe
If you don’t know or have never heard of Robert Mugabe and you read the title of this article you may be forgiven to show excitement about the news that the President is asking the people to end political and racial violence in the country. But if you go back to the history of political [...]
Celebrating the Birthday of an African Dictator
Are the people of Zimbabwe really celebrating Robert Mugabe’s 86th Birthday? What is there to celebrate about this aberrant human form? Thirty years in power and nothing good to show for it. He is determined to cling on to power for the rest of his life despite embarrassingly losing an election to a more dignified [...]
Mugabe Says No to Ending Zimbabwe’s Political Impasse
The arrant dictator in Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, has said he would not implement terms of an agreement he signed in 2008 with Morgan Tsvangirai unless the West removed sanctions on his allies. The South African President Jacob Zuma, who is mediating in Zimbabwe, held talks with the two rivals last week and said Mugabe’s ZANU-PF [...]
‘Why Should Men Be Proposing To Men When There are More Woman Than Men in Our Society?’ – Morgan Tsvangirai Asks
The very eloquent and respectable Prime Minister of Zimbabwe, Morgan Tsvangirai has once more demonstrated why his credentials as a no-nonsense public administrator have never been in question. He has emphatically said no to the idea of enshrining gay rights into the constitution of Zimbabwe. Tsvangirai said “Women make up 52% of the population. There [...]
Zuma Has Decided To Rein in on Mugabe
It seems evident that South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma, has decided it’s time to rein in on Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe. Zuma has just announced that he will visit Zimbabwe to assess the progress that has been made in the unity government. In an official statement his office said “President Jacob Zuma will travel to [...]