Tag Archives: Mugabe

A Zimbabwean court has disqualified a former minister from challenging President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the August 23 election because he lives in exile. High Court judge David Mangota ruled on Wednesday that Saviour Kasukuwere, who has been living in South Africa since the 2017 coup that toppled former ruler Robert …

A video of former Zimbabwean president, Robert Mugabe, trended on Tuesday, barely 24-hours after African leaders were shuttled in a bus in London when they attended the funeral of Queen Elizabeth II on September 19. In the short video clip, widely circulated on Twitter, Mugabe is heard saying: “We are …

Assin Central Member of Parliament, Kennedy Agyapong has explained how he started thinking about and the circumstances that led to his acceptance to become a lawmaker. According to him, it started with people thronging his house for assistance after he returned from the United States years ago and ended after …

An Accra Circuit Court has acquitted and discharged Salifu Maase popularly known as Mugabe Maase, radio presenter of two criminal charges preferred against him. He was charged with offensive conduct to breach public peace and publication of false information that could cause fear and panic and was on GHC50,000 with …

The Zimbabwean government has welcomed the decision of the European Union (EU) to lift travel and financial sanctions imposed on Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, former First Lady Grace Mugabe and military chief Valerio Sibanda. The EU took the decision despite acknowledging that Zimbabwe’s human rights record had not improved and could …

The children of former Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe have appealed a ruling by a traditional chief ordering the exhumation of the remains of the former leader, arguing the traditional leader has no jurisdiction on the matter. In May, Chief Zvimba gave a ruling ordering the body of Mugabe be exhumed and …

A Zimbabwean court on Friday ordered that the body of former president Robert Mugabe be exhumed from his rural home village and be reburied at the National Heroes’ Acre cemetery in the capital, Harare, South African news channel eNCA reported. Mugabe died aged 95 in September 2019 and was buried …

Firebrand broadcaster and host of the GUMBE show on TV XYZ, Mugabe Maase, has slammed Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong for threatening Multimedia journalist, Erastus Asare Donkor. Agyapong has been referred to appear before the Privileges Committee over the threats that have infuriated many in the country. The vociferous MP …

IMAGE COPYRIGHTGETTY IMAGES In our series of letters from Africa, Zimbabwean journalist-turned-barrister Brian Hungwe writes that long-serving ruler Robert Mugabe, who died in 2019, seems to be causing trouble from beyond the grave. Robert Mugabe’s relatives say he died a bitter man nearly two years after he was forced to …

Two years after the death of the enigmatic and charismatic Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe, his wife Grace has been fined five cows and two goats by a traditional court in the country for the transgression of not burying her husband according to traditional customs. Mrs. Mugabe was tried in absentia …