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I despair of African politics. And, in particular. I despair of politics in Zimbabwe if Robert Mugabe has anything to do with it.
The negotiations to establish some common ground between Mugabe’s ZANU PF and the two factions of the Movement for...
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I remember when I was a very young police officer in Zimbabwe there was a local singer that released a single that was an almost direct slur on Mugabe’s government. I don’t remember who the singer was, although I do know that at the particular time...
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My late father used to tell me that for a gentlemen’s agreement - first you need two gentlemen.
He also used to say that a verbal agreement is only as good as the paper it is written upon.
Robert Gabriel Mugabe is no stranger to agreements, written...
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Disinformation: false or misleading information deliberately spread by a propaganda agency.
Misguided: confused or erring in thought or action; foolish.
When countries are at war, there is always a huge campaign to confuse the perceived enemy’s...
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Just yesterday, I wrote on my main page a sentence which inspired this editorial.
“Mugabe’s successes are outweighed by his excesses.”
I spent some time yesterday trying to think of Mugabe’s ‘successes’ - and do you know that I haven’t...
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To ‘stack the deck’ - to arrange something so that it is unfair to someone.
The mediated talks continue as I type. They are obviously going to extend beyond any deadline, and I doubt whether any lasting agreement can be reached and/or kept.
This...
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During the Rhodesian bush war, we had local musicians singing about the war and the political events in the country. The bush war was brutal and bloody and lasted for about 14 years.
One of the people that sand ‘troopie songs’ was the son-in-law of...
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Yesterday I read a story in which it was alleged that Theresa Makone, leader of the MDC Women’s League for the MDC, was ejected from the talks being mediated by Thabo Mbeki, following a ‘sting’ operation by Tendai Biti who suspected that she was...
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We have all watched the latest moves by Mugabe and his ‘government’ and we also see how he intends to treat the two different factions of the MDC.
But how many of us realise that Mugabe has been on the scene a lot longer than the 28 years that he...
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Last year, when it was announced in March last year that Thabo Mbeki would be ‘mediating’ talks between the MDC and ZANU PF, I stated, from the outset, that Mugabe would use everything in his (considerable) power to get what he can from the...
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