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Mugabe rejects mines boards

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has rejected the proposed new boards for three State-owned mining companies because they did not have women. Mines Minister Walter Chidhakwa revealed this during an exclusive interview with The Financial Gazette’s Companies & Markets recently. Chidhakwa had put together the new boards after firing the old boards…

Zuma currying favour with Mugabe?

SOUTH African President Jacob Zuma who faces crucial elections in May could be attempting to curry favour with President Robert Mugabe after he cancelled several key obligations at home and abroad to create time to attend Bona Mugabe’s wedding last Saturday. Apparently Zuma cancelled at the eleventh hour a “working…

With President Mugabe, you can never tell

AS he stood front centre of the grand marquee by his daughter Bona, in front of a sea of fellow heads of state, foreign dignitaries, family, relatives, friends, colleagues in government and the party, to give away the 24 year-old bride to her eager husband-to-be, Simba Chikore, President…

Chinamasa’s job on the line

THE kitchen could be getting too hot for Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa who, despite the declining revenue trickling into government’s coffers, must urgently look for cash to fund civil servants’ salary increases while at the same time keeping the administration’s programmes running or risk falling out with President…

Mugabe: The great survivor

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe turned 90 years old last Friday, marking yet another milestone in a long carrier marking him out as a veteran of local and global politics. And as he walks into the sunset of his political career, the ZANU-PF leader is seen through different lenses. To admirers, he…

Deal with succession

(Comment 1) IN a recent interview with the country’s sole State television to mark his 90th birthday, President Robert Mugabe took a swipe at the existence of factions within his party that are tearing it apart. He said there should not be any debate on who should succeed…