Browsing: Robert Mugabe

In 2017, the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe stepped down. He ruled the country for more than three decades. Emmerson Mnangagwa became Mugabe’s successor after returning from South Africa after a fallout with Mugabe. Journalist Hopewell Chin’ono speaks to the SABC about the post-Mugabe era.

Former Vice President Joice Mujuru shares her experience on how she was fired by the late former President Robert Mugabe.

A comic look into the controversy surrounding the planned exhumation of Robert Mugabe’s remains for reburial

The family of late former Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has expressed shock and anger after it received a letter summoning former first lady Grace Mugabe to exhume her late husband’s body for reburial.

A comic look into the negotiations that happened between government and the Mugabe family to determine where Robert Mugabe would be buried

Eighteen years later it looks like Zimbabwe may reunite with its former colonial rulers. Reports suggest the country is in the second stage of applying to rejoin the Commonwealth.

ZANU PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa has sensationally claimed that the chaotic land reform exercise done during the Robert Mugabe era was inclusive to every Zimbabwean citizen despite political affiliations.

The issue of Zimbabwe returning land to former white farmers that were dislodged during Robert Mugabe’s chaotic land reform in the early 2000s continues to be contested terrain.

Former Nestle boss Kumbirayi Katsande, the brains behind the creation of Cerevita explains how the multinational’s business venture with former president Robert Mugabe was controversially politicised to an extent that it was no longer viable to sustain.

Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor Gideon Gono narrates how he brokered a deal between the late former president Robert Mugabe and opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai which he claims saved the then ‘fragile’ 2009 Government of National Unity (GNU).