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25 unusual facts about Robert Mugabe


2004 Palm Island death in custody

After the trial concluded the Union released advertisements against the Beattie Queensland government, comparing the government to Robert Mugabe and his government.

Axelle Kabou

Nowadays various African intellectuals such as Roger Tagri, George Ayittey, Andrew Mwenda, James Shikwati and Chika Onyeani agree with her analysis, Robert Mugabe being one of the most prominent examples of criticism.

British South Africa Police

Under Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwe Republic Police immediately adopted a policy whereby senior whites were retired at the earliest opportunity and replaced by black officers.

CHNU-DT

Following an initial three-year run that included feature interviews with the likes of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, author Salman Rushdie, Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr. Shirin Ebadi, and HRH Prince Edward, the program was replaced in June 2008 with The Daily when S-VOX took over ownership of the station from Rogers.

Delta Secondary School Windhoek

In July 1978 the school moved into the building of the former Kaiserliche Realschule, later known as Deutsche Höhere Privatschule (DHPS, German Higher Private School), in Leutwein Street (today Robert Mugabe Avenue).

Denford Magora

Magora first became known in the early 1990s after his play, Dr Government, was banned by the government of Robert Mugabe.

Economy of Botswana

SADC's failure to distance itself from the Mugabe government in Zimbabwe has diminished the number of opportunities for cooperation between the U.S. and SADC.

Fraser Government

At the 1979 CHOGM in Zambia, Fraser was influential in establishing progress towards independence for Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), which led to a Commonwealth-monitored ceasefire and election resulting in the election of Robert Mugabe and independence for the former British Colony.

John Keyworth Boynton

For the first time, these elections were to involve the rival guerrilla organisations led by Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo.

Jon Holmes

Special celebrity endorsement - every week Jon Holmes' show is endorsed by Andy Hurst impersonating a figure in the news, for example "Hello, I'm Robert Mugabe, and when I'm not killing white farmers or rigging elections I always listen to the Jon Holmes show on BBC 6Music".

Matabeleland

Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, finally reconciled their political differences by late 1987.

For a brief period, Rhodesia reverted to the status of British colony, but in early 1980, elections were held and the ZANU party, led by the Shona independence hero Robert Mugabe, defeated the popular Ndebele candidate Joshua Nkomo and solidified their rule over the independent nation of Zimbabwe.

Michael Brotherton

He was also a supporter of Ian Smith in Rhodesia and urged the government not to make a deal with the "terrorists" including Robert Mugabe.

Mike Shuster

Prior to working for NPR, he was a United Nations correspondent for Pacifica News Service where he covered the election of Robert Mugabe in 1980 in Zimbabwe.

Nicholas Bailey

Bailey has also performed in the theatre, with roles including Robert Mugabe's security officer Gabriel in Breakfast with Mugabe, and The Duke of Burgundy in Richard Eyre's production of King Lear at the National Theatre, London.

Sodomy law

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has waged a violent campaign against homosexuals, claiming that before colonization Zimbabweans did not engage in homosexual acts.

Solomon Skuza

His 1990 album, Love and Scandals, was a commercial and critical success, due to its political content regarding the Robert Mugabe government's Willowgate Scandal of the time.

Thomas Mapfumo

Thomas Tafirenyika Mapfumo (born 1945) is a Zimbabwean musician known as "The Lion of Zimbabwe" and "Mukanya" (the praise name of his clan in the Shona language) for his immense popularity and for the political influence he wields through his music, including his sharp criticism of the government of President Robert Mugabe.

Tintenpalast

The Tintenpalast, which is located just north of Robert Mugabe Avenue, was designed by German architect Gottlieb Redecker and built by the company Sander & Kock between 1912 and 1913 out of regional materials as an administration building for the German government, which colonized Namibia at the time.

Uncle Bob

Robert Mugabe (born 1924), president of Zimbabwe since 1987, previously prime minister (1980–87)

Willie Musarurwa

Later, he became chief editor of Zimbabwe's leading Sunday newspaper, The Sunday Mail, but was subsequently removed from this position by orders of President Robert Mugabe for being "overly critical of the government.

Willowvale

A provincial governor and five ministers of the government of President Robert Mugabe resigned, one of whom, Maurice Nyagumbo, committed suicide.

ZB Bank Limited

In January 2000, Fallot Chawaua, the Master of Ceremonies of a promotional lottery organised by the Zimbabwe Banking Corporation, announced that Robert Mugabe won the Z$100,000 first prize jackpot.

Zimbabwe Grounds

The Zimbabwe Grounds are famous for having hosted Robert Mugabe's ZANU party's "Star Rally" in 1979.

Zimbabwe International Book Fair

After President Robert Mugabe in August 1995 expressed a virulent attack on homosexuals at the fair, voices arose to move the fair to Johannesburg in South Africa.


Central Intelligence Organisation

His brother Richard Stannard, a former captain in the British Army Military Police, became the Director Military Intelligence (DMI) under Robert Mugabe.

Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting 1991

It was held in Harare, Zimbabwe, between 16 October 1991 and 21 October 1991, and was hosted by that country's President, Robert Mugabe.

Danny Stannard

Danny Stannard, an Irishman who had spent most of his life in southern Africa, succeeded Ken Flower as head of the Zimbabwean Central Intelligence Organization under Robert Mugabe and later became manager of the Zimbabwe cricket team and head of security for the Zimbabwe Cricket Union.

Davison Maruziva

In the "Willowgate" investigation, Maruziva and Nyarota reported that ministers and officials from the government of President Robert Mugabe had been given early access to buy foreign cars at an assembly plant in Willowvale, an industrial suburb of Harare.

Elson Moyo

Moyo was arrested on 7 June 2007 along with Major General Engelbert Rugeje and around 400 other military personnel for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Mugabe administration.

Engelbert Rugeje

Rugeje, ZNA spokesman Ben Ncube, and Air Vice-Marshal Elson Moyo were "allegedly" arrested on June 7, 2007 along with almost 400 soldiers for allegedly plotting to overthrow the Mugabe administration.

Geoffrey Nyarota

In the "Willowgate" investigation, Nyarota and deputy editor Davison Maruziva reported that ministers and officials from the government of President Robert Mugabe had been given early access to buy foreign cars at an assembly plant in Willowvale, an industrial suburb of Harare.

George Alagiah

A specialist on Africa and the developing world, Alagiah has interviewed, among others, Nelson Mandela, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, former Secretary-General of the United Nations Kofi Annan and President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

James D. McGee

James McGee was threatened with expulsion from Zimbabwe by the president, Robert Mugabe, after McGee had told the press of politically inspired attacks by Mugabe's government against political activists in anticipation of the run-off election between Mugabe and his rival, Morgan Tsvangirai.

John Bredenkamp

It is claimed that he sought to facilitate the early retirement of President Mugabe in 2004 and his replacement by Emmerson Mnangagwa, former Security Minister and Speaker of Parliament.

Langton Towungana

His opponents were Morgan Tsvangirai of the Movement for Democratic Change, Simba Makoni, another independent candidate, and incumbent President Robert Mugabe of ZANU-PF.

Michael William-Paul

His collected portrait work from this time includes celebrities such as Robert Redford, Jane Fonda, and Goldie Hawn, political figures such as Mikhail Gorbachev, Queen Noor of Jordan, and such controversial figures as President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe.

Mugabe and the White African

The film follows Mike Campbell, his son-in-law Ben Freeth, and their family as they challenge Robert Mugabe and the Zimbabwean government before the Southern African Development Community tribunal for racial discrimination and human rights violations.

Nathan Shamuyarira

In June 2006 he accused the International Crisis Group think tank of calling for a coup against President Robert Mugabe in the Zimbabwe's Continued Self-Destruction paper.

Operation Dingo

Operation Dingo, also known as the Chimoio massacre, was a major raid conducted by the Rhodesian Security Forces against the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army (ZANLA) headquarters of Robert Mugabe at Chimoio and a smaller camp at Tembue in Mozambique from 23–25 November 1977.

Paul Biya

"Tyrants, the World's 20 Worst Living Dictators", by David Wallechinsky, ranked Biya with three others commonly in sub-Saharan Africa: Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe, Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea, and King Mswati of Swaziland.

Rekayi Tangwena

Chief Tangwena is well known as the man who helped Robert Mugabe and Edgar Tekere cross into Mozambique to join the Zimbabwe African National Liberation Army guerillas who were waging a fierce bush war against Ian Smith's Rhodesian regime.

Willowgate

In the weeks following their discovery of the check, Nyarota and deputy editor Davison Maruziva learned that ministers and officials from the government of President Robert Mugabe had been given early access to buy foreign cars at the Willowvale assembly plant.

Zimbabwe African National Union

ZANU won the 1980 elections under the leadership of Robert Mugabe, and seven years later merged again with Joshua Nkomo's ZAPU to form ZANU-PF, the current governing party of the country.

Zimbabwe African People's Union

Founded by Joshua Nkomo as president, Parirenyatwa as vice-president, Ndabaningi Sithole as chairman, Jason Moyo, Robert Mugabe as information and publicity secretary, Leopold Takawira as external secretary, at the request of Joseph Msika, ZAPU was banned in 1962 by the Rhodesian white minority government, and was later engaged in a guerrilla war against it.