Military “Running” the Country
Institute for War and Peace Reporting By Nonthando Bhebhe in Harare 24 April 2008 Ruling party insiders say President Mugabe is effectively hostage to his security chiefs’ demands for continuity. Officials of the ruling ZANU-PF party say President Robert Mugabe is no longer fully in control, with much of the government’s day-to-day affairs being run
Zimbabwe on the Edge – Zimbabwe Election Stalled Aftermath Reflects a Defeated Ruler Unwilling to Relinquish Power
Cutting Edge By Priya Abraham April 21st 2008 To listen to Robert Mugabe’s latest rant on western imperialism, one would think history has not shaken the 84-year-old liberator-turned-dictator of Zimbabwe. “We need to maintain utmost vigilance in the face of vicious British machinations,” he told a crowd of thousands in Harare’s Gwanzura stadium on April
Tsvangirai fears capture if he returns to Zimbabwe before poll
The Independent on Sunday By Raymond Whitaker in Bulawayo Sunday, 20 April 2008 Zimbabwe’s opposition leader, Morgan Tsvangirai, the presumed front-runner in the presidential election held three weeks ago, has said he intends to remain out of the country for the time being for fear of being attacked or imprisoned. “It is no use going
The dire situation in Zimbabwe
The Boston Globe By Jeff Jacoby Globe Columnist / April 20, 2008 IN RETROSPECT , it was an exercise in naiveté to have imagined that Zimbabwe’s brutal strongman, Robert Mugabe, would relinquish power just because he had lost an election. It has been more than three weeks since the March 29 vote in which Mugabe’s
MUGABE’S WANING CLOUT – Military Leaders Making the Decisions in Zimbabwe
Washington Post Foreign Service Wednesday, April 16, 2008 JOHANNESBURG, April 15 — Zimbabwe’s military has taken day-to-day control of key elements of the national government, limiting the authority of President Robert Mugabe as he struggles to maintain power after 28 years, according to senior government sources, Western diplomats and analysts. Mugabe’s clout has diminished as
Mugabe’s Money Men
By Roger Bate of America Enterprise Institute Posted: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 National Review Online A company with links to a U.S. government contractor is enabling Robert Mugabe despotic rule in Zimbabwe by printing bank notes. In the past month, these increasingly worthless notes have been used to bribe officials in the public sector, army,
Bulawayo Woman Arrested And Released On Bail
Media Institute of Southern Africa (Windhoek) PRESS RELEASE 15 April 2008 A 60-year old Bulawayo woman, Margaret Ann Kriel, was arrested in the city on 10 April 2008 on allegations of practicing journalism without accreditation in violation of the repressive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), as amended in 2007. She was
Zim electoral commission ‘brazen liars’ – MDC
The Star – Joahnnesburg 14th April 2008 By Peta Thornycroft One of the authors of Zimbabwe’s new electoral laws says next week’s scheduled recount of 23 constituencies will be illegal. Welshman Ncube, one of two Movement for Democratic Change negotiators who spent much of 2007 locked into rewriting some of Zimbabwe’s contentious laws with Zanu-PF
Zambia talks fail to find solution to political crisis rocking Zimbabwe
TORONTO STAR BY OAKLAND ROSS Apr 13, 2008 04:30 AM JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA–The guest of honour failed to show up; the most powerful man in the room said there was nothing to worry about; everyone talked for a while and then went home. But an emergency summit of southern African leaders held yesterday in the
Intimidation mounts in Zimbabwe as police ban rallies
The Independent (London) By A Special Correspondent in Bulawayo Saturday, 12 April 2008 Robert Mugabe’s government banned all political rallies in Zimbabwe yesterday as tension and intimidation mounted over the still-unannounced results of the presidential election held two weeks ago today. Police claimed they did not have the manpower to deal with political gatherings when