“Cecil the lion was yours, and you failed to protect him” – President Robert Mugabe
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe spoke publicly for the first time about Cecil the lion on Monday, suggesting that Zimbabwean citizens were to blame for the beloved animal’s death. “Cecil the lion was yours, and you failed to protect him,” Mugabe said in his annual speech on Heroes Day, the Washington Post reports. After the lion’s […]
Ivory Coast President Ouattara Denies Mugabe Entry
ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe said that African leaders have refused to recognise his leadership on regional bodies at the prodding of the French government. Mugabe told the central committee of the ruling Zanu-PF party on Friday that he’s been snubbed by regional leaders while serving as rotating chairman of the African Union (AU) and the […]
Grace Mugabe,Zimbabwe Dictator`s Wife Turns 51
The bootlicking by ministers and heads of parastatals has traditionally been reserved for Grace’s 91-year-old husband President Robert Mugabe. Grace, a former secretary who married Mugabe in 1996 after the death of his first wife Sally, will be feted at a lavish party to held at the First Family’s posh “Blue Roof” residence in Borrowdale, […]
Mugabe demotes “devil” Jonathan Moyo for sympathising with opposition
President Robert Mugabe on Monday moved Zimbabwe’s information minister, who he branded a “devil incarnate” last year, to an education department role in his second cabinet reshuffle since December. Minister of Information Jonathan Moyo, whom Mugabe says appointed opposition sympathisers as editors of state-owned newspapers, was to be Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, the […]
Mugabe Blocks And Cancels succession talk
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s latest rant about Zanu PF factionalism confirms that Vice-President Emmerson Mangangwa will not be his automatic successor, a prominent political analyst said yesterday. Mugabe on Saturday told Zanu PF youths the ruling party was now divided into factions backing Mnangagwa and Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko. The 91-year-old leader said those supporting Mnangagwa and […]
Mugabe responsible for South Africa’s xenophobia attacks says Morgan Tsvangirai
HARARE—Zimbabwe’s Former Prime Minister and founding Movement for Democratic Change president, Morgan Tsvangirai, says leaders like President Robert Mugabe are responsible for xenophobia attacks that recently left seven people dead in South Africa. In his state of the nation address on Saturday, Tsvangirai said, “South Africans are not responsible for xenophobia leaders like Robert Mugabe […]
Emmerson Mnangagwa cannot win an election says Tsvangirai
Opposition MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai has described Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is heavily tipped to succeed President Robert Mugabe, as an unpopular strongman who cannot win an election.Addressing supporters at a rally in Harare’s Kuwadzana high density suburb yesterday, Tsvangirai said he would embarrass Mnangagwa come 2018 should Zanu PF make the “mistake” of […]
Zimbabwe’s President Mugabe fires his deputy, Joice Mujuru, and 7 government ministers
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has fired his deputy, Joice Mujuru, and seven government ministers, his cabinet secretary said on Tuesday, in the latest twist in a power struggle over the choice of his successor. The move took place days after Mugabe, 90, publicly rebuked Mujuru, who was seen just months ago as the most likely […]
