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Workers offload part of a consignment of the Sinopharm coronavirus vaccine from China off an Air Zimbabwe plane. Picture: AFP

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On a wing and a prayer: Zimbabwe’s main airport is operating without a radar

By AFP

In a video, a lawmaker said planes were landing at Zimbabwe's main international airport without any radar systems to guide air traffic controllers.

  • Robert Mugabe’s family including his wife, Grace (veiled,) sits and watches on as members of the public view the body of the former president. Picture: Thomas Holder/Eyewitness News.

    Grace Mugabe challenges Zimbabwe order to exhume husband's body

    Robert Mugabe was buried in his rural home village of Kutama, about 90 kilometres (55 miles) west of the capital Harare, in September 2019 after weeks of wrangling over his final resting place.

    312 days ago
  • Former first lady Grace Mugabe walks past a portrait of Robert Mugabe during the burial of the former Zimbabwe leader at his home village in Kutama, on 28 September 2019. Picture: AFP

    Zimbabwe court says Mugabe can be reburied

    A Zimbabwe court on Friday sided with traditional chiefs seeking to exhume the remains of ex-president Robert Mugabe from his home village and move them to the capital, going against the family's wishes.

    336 days ago
  • FILE: People gather at the Joshua Nkomo statue ahead of Unity Day commemorations on 22 December 2017 in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe to commemorate the killing that happened in Matebeleland in the early 80s. Troops from the notorious Fifth Brigade, trained by North Korean advisers, committed mass atrocities during the crackdown on a supposed rebellion in the western province of Matabeleland. Picture: AFP

    Zimbabwe's Gukurahundi massacre victims to be compensated

    From 1983, Robert Mugabe deployed a North Korean-trained military unit to crack down on a revolt in the southwestern region of Matabeleland in newly independent Zimbabwe, say rights groups.

    356 days ago
  • FILE: Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Picture: AFP

    Echoes of Mugabe as Zimbabwe president entrenches power

    Critics see little difference between Emmerson Mnangagwa - Robert Mugabe's former deputy - and his ex-boss, accusing him of seeking to create a one-party state under the ruling Zanu-PF.

    437 days ago
  • Former first lady Grace Mugabe walks past a portrait of Robert Mugabe during the burial of the former Zimbabwe leader at his home village in Kutama, on 28 September 2019. Picture: AFP

    Robert Mugabe's widow told to pay for 'improper burial' in livestock

    Grace Mugabe is accused of burying her husband in the courtyard of his home in Kutama, some 90 kilometres west of the capital Harare, while he was supposed to be buried in a place chosen by his mother or immediate family.

    448 days ago
  • Robert Mugabe’s family including his wife, Grace (veiled,) sits and watches on as members of the public view the body of the former president. Picture: Thomas Holder/Eyewitness News.

    Grace Mugabe summoned by chief to face charges of inappropriately burying Robert

    According to 'The Voice of Zimbabwe,' Chief Zvimba wants Mugabe to exhume her late husband's body and rebury it at a gravesite where his mother, bona, was laid to rest.

    457 days ago
  • FILE: Robert Mugabe. Picture: AFP

    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 grip on power.

    479 days ago
  • FILE: Former first lady Grace Mugabe walks past a portrait of Robert Mugabe during the burial of the former Zimbabwe leader at his home village in Kutama, on 28 September 2019. Picture: AFP

    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.

    707 days ago
  • FILE: Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Picture: AFP

    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.

    710 days ago
  • FILE: The late Robert Mugabe. Picture: EWN

    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."

    939 days ago
  • A school pupil from Helpmekaar Kollege cries as the Springboks arrive to sign autographs. Siya Kolisi signed his shoes and he couldn’t help but burst into tears. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN.

    EWN's Pictures of 2019

    Take a look back at 2019 as captured through the lenses of EWN's photojournalists.

    959 days ago
  • A look at the high profile deaths in 2019. Picture: AFP

    High profile deaths in 2019

    A look at the high profile deaths in 2019.

    959 days ago
  • The coffin bearing the late Robert Mugabe’s body arrives at Rufaro Stadium for public viewing. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN.

    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.

    981 days ago
  • FILE: The late Robert Mugabe. Picture: EWN

    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.

    983 days ago
  • Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe. Picture: AFP

    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.

    1044 days ago
  • FILE: Former President Jacob Zuma answers questions during the last presidential answer session for the year in Parliament on 2 November 2017. Picture: AFP

    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.

    1045 days ago
  • Leo Mugabe, the spokesperson for the Mugabe family, speaks to members of the press at the family's Blue Roof mansion in Harare to clarify the burial of Robert Mugabe. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN

    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.

    1046 days ago
  • The casket containing the body of Zimbabwe's late former President Robert Mugabe is hoisted by soldiers in ceremonial uniform after it arrived on 12 September 2019 at the historic Rufaro Stadium in the capital, Harare, where his body will lie in state for members of the public file past. Picture: AFP

    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.

    1047 days ago
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