Robert mugabe
Holding on to power: Africa's longest-serving leaders
Here are some of Africa's other longest-serving leaders, some of whom change the constitution, crush the opposition and use fear and violence to maintain their...
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Bitter anniversary in Zimbabwe a year after Mugabe died
Robert Mugabe died on 6 September last year, aged 95 in a Singapore hospital, two years after he was forced to resign in 2017, and after 37 years in power.
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Zimbabwe says foreign white farmers can apply to get back seized land
Last month, Zimbabwe agreed to pay $3.5 billion in compensation to local white farmers whose land was forcibly taken by the government to resettle black families, moving a step closer to resolving one the most divisive policies of the Robert Mugabe era.
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Zimbabwe authorities seize Mugabe nephew's farm
In an affidavit, businessman Robert Zhuwao, the son of the late Robert Mugabe's younger sister Sabina, protested that the land ministry revoked his title to the 233-hectare "on the basis of a false allegation."
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EWN's Pictures of 2019
Take a look back at 2019 as captured through the lenses of EWN's photojournalists.
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High profile deaths in 2019
A look at the high profile deaths in 2019.
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Lawyer says establishing Mugabe's assets will take a long time
The government-owned 'Herald' newspaper said Robert Mugabe’s daughter Bona Chikowore wrote in October, the month after her father’s death, to the High Court seeking to register the estate.
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Mugabe left behind $10m, several properties but no beneficiaries: media
State media said the estate was registered by Mugabe’s eldest daughter Bona Chikore in October, a month after her father died.
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JERRY MATEBESI: Former President Mugabe was 90% correct and 10% wrong
The legacy of former Zimbabwe President Mugabe remains a contested terrain and ought to be understood within the context of colonialism and neo-colonialism, writes Jerry Matebesi.
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FIKILE-NTSIKELELO MOYA: We can’t airbrush Zuma’s failures from history
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya says all those trying to cast former President Jacob Zuma as a hero should just stop.
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Zim govt denies reports saying Zanu-PF plans to take over Mugabe's properties
On Monday, reports emerged that the former president's Harare mansion could be turned into a museum.
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Reinforced grave, tamper-proof casket: battle for Mugabe's corpse
Robert Mugabe, who died aged 95 at a Singapore hospital on 6 September, was laid to rest 22 days later in a concrete cast grave in the courtyard of his rural Kutama home, 90 kilometres west of the capital Harare.
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'Family specifically didn't want Mnangagwa to preside over Mugabe's funeral'
Zimbabwe Independent editor Dumisani Muleya explains why Zimbabwe's late president was only buried over the weekend.
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UPDATE: Zimbabwe's ex-president Mugabe buried in rural village
Hundreds of mourners assembled for the low-key event, which was initially intended to be a private family ceremony.
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Mugabe to be buried today at rural home - family
The country's founding leader died in a Singapore hospital earlier this month, aged 95, almost two years after a military coup ended his nearly four-decade rule.
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Mnangagwa gives go-ahead for Mugabe's body to be moved
There were reports of a brief stand-off between family members and police when the family decided to move Robert Mugabe’s body from his Harare mansion to his rural home in Zvimba ahead of his burial on Saturday.
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Mugabe's body moved to rural home ahead of weekend burial
After weeks of wrangling between government and his family over the final resting place for the country's founding leader, the Mugabes have opted to entomb him at his birthplace and rural home, about 90 kilometres west of the capital Harare.
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Mugabe to be buried in his home town within two days
There had been agreement that Robert Mugabe would be buried at National Heroes Acre in Harare in 30 days after his death. However, this changed.
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Malema: Mnangagwa’s government tormented Robert Mugabe until his death
Malema said Mnangagwa’s government hasn't paid the benefits promised the former president.
