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Apr
27
2024
By STEVEN FRIEDMAN
Why it’s wrong to blame South Africa’s woes on Mandela’s compromises

Why it’s wrong to blame South Africa’s woes on Mandela’s compromises

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP
IF he were alive today, Nelson Mandela would probably be puzzled to find that it has become popular among South Africans frustrated with the pace of change to join former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe in casting him as a villain. The charge against Mandela, who became South Africa’s first democratically elected President on 10 May 1994, is that he let white South Africa off the hook by bargaining a deal which left the racial minority in charge of the economy and society. His reconciliation policy, it is claimed, made whites feel good but did little for blacks. How justified is…
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Jun
01
2023
By The African Mirror
Zimbabwe to hold general election on Aug. 23

Zimbabwe to hold general election on Aug. 23

NEWS
ZIMBABWE will hold its presidential and parliamentary elections on August 23, President Emmerson Mnangagwa said, as the southern African country continues to battle a raging economic crisis. Mnangagwa, elected president in 2018, will be seeking a second term in office. His election followed a military coup that deposed Robert Mugabe in 2017. The 80-year-old's main rival is lawyer and pastor Nelson Chamisa, 45, who leads the newly formed Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC). The election proclamation comes amid parliamentary debates over electoral reforms. Chamisa's party is demanding access to and an audit of the voters' roll, as well as public…
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Apr
27
2023
By The African Mirror
Farmers say Zimbabwe government compensation deal comes up short

Farmers say Zimbabwe government compensation deal comes up short

NEWS
NYASHA CHINGONO and WENDELL ROELF BEN Gilpin is one of hundreds of commercial farmers who has been offered government compensation for being evicted from their land and farms two decades ago and found the plan has come up short. Expelled from his 1,000-hectare farm during a land reform campaign led by former president Robert Mugabe, Gilpin, who lives in the capital Harare, is one of many mostly white farmers seeking redress from the government after years of court action and delays. Still, some farmers say they will reject the government's $3.5 billion compensation package for being inadequate financially and for…
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Jul
10
2022
By The African Mirror
Book on Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe’s legacy has many flaws

Book on Zimbabwe strongman Robert Mugabe’s legacy has many flaws

LITERATURE
DEVELOPMENT studies professor David Moore’s new book, Mugabe’s Legacy: Coups, Conspiracies and the Conceits of Power in Zimbabwe, attempts to understand the legacy of Robert Mugabe, who led Zimbabwe from 1980 to 2017, when he lost power in a military coup. Author BLESSING-MILES TENDI, Associate Professor in the Politics of Africa, University of Oxford Moore maintains that Mugabe’s legacy revolves around what he terms “the three Cs”: coups, conspiracies and conceits of political power. He shows that “the three Cs” have their origins in the perilous politics of the independence struggle, in which Mugabe was a key participant. The book…
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Sep
02
2020
By The African Mirror
Zimbabwe says foreign white farmers can apply to get back seized land

Zimbabwe says foreign white farmers can apply to get back seized land

NEWS
FOREIGN white farmers settled in Zimbabwe whose land was seized under Robert Mugabe can apply to get it back and will be offered land elsewhere if restitution proves impractical, the government said on Monday. 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. Under Zimbabwean laws passed during a short period of opposition government but ignored by Mugabe, foreign white farmers protected by treaties between their governments…
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May
25
2021
By The African Mirror
Chief orders Mugabe remains exhumed, reburied

Chief orders Mugabe remains exhumed, reburied

NEWS
A chief in Zimbabwe has ordered the exhumation and reburial of Robert Mugabe's remains at the national heroes' shrine in Harare after accusing the late leader's wife of breaking local custom by interring him at his rural home in 2019. Mugabe, who was ousted in a coup that brought Emmerson Mnangagwa to power in November 2017, was buried at his village of Kutama after weeks of dispute with Mnangagwa's government over his final resting place. A traditional chief in Zvimba district, which includes Kutama, said he had received a complaint from a Mugabe clan member over the manner of his…
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