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Robert Mugabe

July 2024

  • Simukai Chigudu. Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: ‘Colonialism had never really ended’: my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes – podcast

    This week, from 2021: After growing up in a Zimbabwe convulsed by the legacy of colonialism, when I got to Oxford I realised how many British people still failed to see how empire had shaped lives like mine – as well as their own. By Simukai Chigudu

October 2023

  • Zimbabwean activist Patson Muzuwa, in County Durham. Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian

    The Audio Long Read
    ‘A huge heart’: the insatiable activism of Zimbabwean exile Patson Muzuwa – podcast

    After agitating against Robert Mugabe in Harare in the late 90s, Patson Muzuwa fled to the UK. He continued the fight from afar, and became a tireless torchbearer for those he had to leave behind

August 2023

  • Zimbabwean activist Patson Muzuwa, in County Durham.

    The long read
    ‘A huge heart’: the insatiable activism of Zimbabwean exile Patson Muzuwa

  • A woman and her child in front of the rubble of their demolished home. A plastic sheet has been placed over the remaining walls to create a shelter

    ‘Sweets for the people’: Zimbabwe’s voters lured by land barons’ promises

February 2023

  • Robert Mugabe and his son Robert Jr in 2017

    Robert Mugabe’s son charged in Zimbabwe for damaging cars at party

    Son of late authoritarian ruler arrested over damage worth £10,000

January 2023

  • Nelson Chamisa, leader of Zimbabwe’s opposition Citizens Coalition for Change party, addresses supporters at its launch rally in Harare last year.

    ‘The Crocodile has not changed’: Zimbabwe opposition warns of election violence

    Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa urges world to keep ‘eyes on’ President Mnangagwa amid fears of repression this summer

July 2022

  • Alex Magaisa

    Alex Magaisa obituary

    Lawyer and key adviser to Morgan Tsvangirai who helped draft Zimbabwe’s 2013 constitution

March 2022

  • Former first lady of Zimbabwe Grace Ntombizodwa Mugabe in front of a poster of her husband.

    Book of the day
    Glory by NoViolet Bulawayo review – a Zimbabwean Animal Farm

    Set in the aftermath of Mugabe’s fall, Bulawayo’s long-awaited second novel is a spellbinding allegory
  • NoViolet Bulawayo.

    NoViolet Bulawayo: ‘I’m encouraged by this new generation that wants better’

    The Booker-shortlisted author talks about Zimbabwe after Mugabe - and drawing on Orwell for her brilliant new political satire
  • Moscow skyline

    Vladimir Putin will be ousted – it’s just a matter of when and how

    Letters: Jeremy Smith thinks the outcome of Russia’s war on Ukraine that we all seem reluctant to discuss is the only non-catastrophic one

September 2021

  • Millie Chapanda and Tonderai Munyevu in Mugabe, My Dad & Me.

    Mugabe, My Dad & Me review – a powerful personal tale of celebration and healing

  • Tonderai Munyevu in Mugabe, My Dad and Me.

    Mugabe, My Dad and Me review – a personal lesson on empire and identity

May 2021

  • Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe

    Zimbabwe chief orders Mugabe remains to be exhumed for reburial at heroes’ shrine

  • Irene Owens sent sewing machines, typewriters and vaccines to Zimbabwe and was interviewed as ‘guest of the week’ in 1990 on television there

    Other lives
    Irene Owens obituary

January 2021

  • Simukai Chigudu.

    The long read
    'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes

  • Posters of Yoweri Museveni and Robert Kyagulanyi, aka Bobi Wine, on a street in Kampala, Uganda.

    'Agent of foreign interests': Museveni lashes out at Uganda election rival

December 2020

  • Robert Mugabe pictured in 1991

    Mugabe's love of cricket and Thatcher's 70th: stories revealed in National Archives papers

    Proposed MCC membership for Mugabe and Thatcher’s birthday party plans among stories kept under wraps – until now

September 2020

  • Robert Mugabe addressing a crowd in Harare, 1984.

    From the Guardian archive
    Mugabe sets his sights on an executive style presidency – archive, 1987

    17 September 1987: the proposal is virtually assured passage through Parliament which is controlled by Mr Robert Mugabe’s Zanu party

July 2020

  • Zanu-PF spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa’s accusation come amid a surge of repression and abductions of government critics.

    Zimbabwe brands US ambassador 'a thug' as crackdown on dissent intensifies

    Ruling Zanu-PF accuses US delegate of fomenting unrest ahead of planned anti-corruption demonstrations

December 2019

  • A Santa Claus sells Christmas decorations in Harare.

    I’m home for Christmas – but hardship has sucked the spirit out of Zimbabwe

    Wilf Mbanga
    After years in exile, my hopes for a joyous family reunion were dashed by the country’s miserable economic situation
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