Stories

President Robert Mugabe was accused of protecting those who carried out his dirty deeds during the 2000 pre-election period and the national referendum when he declared an amnesty for every person “liable to criminal prosecution for any politically-motivated crime” committed between January 1 and July 31, 2000.

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International pressure especially that brought about by the United Kingdom had backed President Robert Mugabe in a corner making him more difficult to deal with than before Zimbabwe’s departure from the Commonwealth.

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Zimbabwe withdrew its request for assistance with the 2005 elections from the United Nations Development Programme, according to the United States embassy, but the embassy construed this to mean that it was setting the stage for a considerably reduced international presence in the run-up to and during the March 2005 parliamentary elections.

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While land reform was a means to empower the majority of Zimbabwe’s blacks and to redress colonial injustices, to President Robert Mugabe it was thread central to his ego, one that added to his stature not just in Zimbabwe but throughout Africa and the wider developing world.

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The Capital Radio case has quickly generated a flurry of conflicting court rulings, orders, summons, complaints, injunctions, warrants and contempt charges.

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The Commercial Farmers Union filed a 1000-page lawsuit against President Robert Mugabe and his government on 18 September 2000 in the forlorn hope that the lawsuit could at least allow them to obtain financing for the coming season.

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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe is outside the reach of the International Criminal Court because Zimbabwe is not a signatory to the Rome Statute which set up the court so it would require a United Nations Security Council Resolution to haul him to The Hague.

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Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo hoped to see a reconciliation agreement in Zimbabwe By March 2004 which would include President Robert Mugabe’s agreement to step down.

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President Robert Mugabe singled out Information Minister Jonathan Moyo for praise while criticising those within the party who strayed from strict party discipline.

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A group of war veterans invade his corporate offices, down his liquor and force the chief operating officer to sit on the floor and chant pro-Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front slogans. When they are done they demand money for a taxi to return home.

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