Tension Rises In Harare Over Appointment of Police Chief

voanews 10-FEB-12

Zimbabwe general's death shrouded in suspicion (AP)

news 06-FEB-12

Bailout banker Fred Goodwin stripped of his knighthood

thesun 01-FEB-12

Civil servants snub government offer

newsday 01-FEB-12

Fred Goodwin is stripped of his knighthood for RBS failure - the biggest corporate disaster in British history

dailymail 31-JAN-12

Talks On Possible China Carrier Strategic Investment in Air Zimbabwe Collapse

voanews 27-JAN-12

Zimbabwe: National Carrier Faces Liquidation

allafrica 23-JAN-12

Age clause to thwart Mugabe?

iafrica 21-JAN-12

Government asks honours committee to strip Fred Goodwin of knighthood

guardian 19-JAN-12

Zimbabwe Civil Servants Set to Go on Strike on Thursday Over Salaries

voanews 17-JAN-12

Zimbabwe Opens Inquest Into Late General's Suspicious Death Last August

voanews 16-JAN-12

South Africa's ANC papers over cracks with centenary celebrations

telegraph 08-JAN-12

South Africa: 2012 No Walk in the Park - Lagarde

allafrica 07-JAN-12

ANC: Mandela to Miss Party's 100th Anniversary Celebrations

voanews 06-JAN-12

Mugabe’s party says ANC is inefficient

DailyNation 05-JAN-12

Furore over Mugabe promotions

newsday 30-DEC-11

Partial results: Congo legislative races close (AP)

news 29-DEC-11

Zimbabwe police retrieve 11 people drowned on Christmas day

cnn 26-DEC-11

Troops stop Tshisekedi from stadium swearing-in

euronews 24-DEC-11

With Dueling Inaugurations, Political Showdown Looms in DRC

voanews 21-DEC-11

DRC President Pledges Unity

voanews 20-DEC-11

Mugabe wins party vote but challenged by age, ill health

kyivpost 11-DEC-11

Mugabe: Majority Stake in All Zimbabwe Businesses will be Black

voanews 09-DEC-11

Tsvangirai marriage: Full statement

zimonline 01-DEC-11

BAZ awards radio licences

zimonline 25-NOV-11

China lauds 'old friend' Mugabe

bbc 17-NOV-11

Zimbabwe: Electoral Fears As Leaders Denounce Violence

allafrica 15-NOV-11

Zimbabwe's president calls for end to violence (AP)

news 11-NOV-11

ANC's youth leader Malema sacked

bbc 10-NOV-11

MDC activists stoned, beaten

zimonline 08-NOV-11

Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai Gay Rights Gaffe May Prove Costly

allafrica 07-NOV-11

Libya: Col Gaddafi son Saif opens ICC talks on surrender

telegraph 28-OCT-11

Swiss stop Mugabe's wife travelling to UN meeting

independent 27-OCT-11

PM criticised for supporting gays

DailyNation 25-OCT-11

Spokesman for Zimbabwe's Mugabe Now Cites 'Differences' With Gadhafi

voanews 24-OCT-11

China and Russia veto UN sanctions on Syria

aljazeera 05-OCT-11

Zimbabwe: Mugabe in Singapore for Medical Attention

allafrica 02-OCT-11

Zimbabwe: Mining Firms Ordered to Transfer Shares Next Month

allafrica 30-SEP-11

African Union Recognizes Libya's Transitional Gov't

voanews 20-SEP-11

U.N. adopts declaration on noncommunicable diseases

cnn 19-SEP-11

Zim to recall ambassador to Australia

thetimes 14-SEP-11

Pakistan beats Zimbabwe by 10 wickets in 2nd ODI

dawn 11-SEP-11

Gono says Mugabe has terminal cancer

insiderzim 05-SEP-11

Libya's real challenge may lie ahead

cnn 02-SEP-11

President Mugabe ZANU-PF Party Expels Deputy Minister

voanews 01-SEP-11

£950m unfrozen cash sent to Libya

bbc 31-AUG-11

Gaddafi’s wife and children flee to Algeria

examiner 30-AUG-11

Zimbabwe cancels earlier decision to allow Libyan envoy to stay

DailyNation 30-AUG-11

Concern over 40,000 Libyan prisoners

RTERadio 29-AUG-11

Zimbabwe increases pressure on miner

independent 24-AUG-11

East Africa: Tanzanian Vice President Leaves Luanda

allafrica 22-AUG-11

Mugabe succession race could turn ugly

newsday 21-AUG-11

President of Malawi dissolves Cabinet

cnn 20-AUG-11

Zimbabwe Gives Foreign-Owned Firms a Fortnight to Submit Indigenization Plans

voanews 20-AUG-11

Tanzanian Vice President leaves Luanda

angolapress 19-AUG-11

Zimbabwe gives foreign firms 14-day empowerment ultimatum

reuters 19-AUG-11

Southern Africa: Angola Takes Over SADC's Council of Ministers Chair

allafrica 18-AUG-11

Mugabe in quandary

newsday 18-AUG-11

Zimbabwe ex-military chief Mujuru dies

aljazeera 17-AUG-11

Zimbabwe Electoral Reforms, Schedule Key Items for SADC Summit in Luanda

voanews 16-AUG-11

Mugabe ally dies in fire at farm in Zimbabwe

cnn 16-AUG-11

'Backpacking' U.S. envoy a hit in China

cnn 15-AUG-11

Zim crisis solution unlikely at SADC summit: analysts

thetimes 15-AUG-11

Zimbabwe: Unravelling Jonathan Moyo's Introspection

allafrica 15-AUG-11

Zimbabwean Bishop takes the gospel to the West

insiderzim 14-AUG-11

Southern Africa: Angola Holds Conference On Infrastructures in Region

allafrica 12-AUG-11

London riots: Robert Mugabe tells riot-hit UK to leave Zimbabwe alone

telegraph 09-AUG-11

Zuma’s team to review Zim situation

zimonline 21-JUL-11

Zimbabwe: Zanu Pf Misleading Nation On Security Sector Reform

allafrica 14-JUL-11

Biti to fight cops over phone records

news24 12-JUL-11

South Sudan

bbc 09-JUL-11

South Sudanese mark independence from north (Reuters)

news 08-JUL-11

Zimbabwe's Inter-Party Negotiators Defy Mugabe Call for Early Elections

voanews 06-JUL-11

Zimbabwe now in the morgue

insiderzim 06-JUL-11

Zimbabwe diamonds saga - the letter that sparked it all

insiderzim 30-JUN-11

China rolls out red carpet for Sudan president

kyivpost 29-JUN-11

Zambia: Fitting Farewell for FJT

allafrica 28-JUN-11

In Zimbabwe, Mugabe Government Is Not Sharing the Power to Arrest Rivals

IHT 27-JUN-11

World Briefing | AFRICA: Zimbabwe: Government Minister Arrested

IHT 25-JUN-11

Zimbabwe diamond sales approved

bbc 24-JUN-11

First Lady misses out on trip to Robben Island as bad weather prevents ferry crossing

dailymail 23-JUN-11

Zimbabwe army chief says PM a security threat: report

montrealgazette 23-JUN-11

Malaysian opens forum to push African ties

channelnewsasia 19-JUN-11

Britain to galvanize private sector in Zimbabwe

insiderzim 17-JUN-11

IMF mission arrives today

zimonline 16-JUN-11

London 2012 tickets: Hundreds have been handed to Gaddafi's son Muhammad

dailymail 15-JUN-11

Rarely-seen archive fuels debate on years of Mugabe misrule

independent 15-JUN-11

Soutnern African Nations Urge Faster Progress on Zimbabwe Power Sharing

voanews 13-JUN-11

Southern African Region Debates Zimbabwe

voanews 12-JUN-11

Sudan to pull northern troops out of disputed Abyei region

telegraph 12-JUN-11

Expert: Weaker Africans to benefit from free trade

kyivpost 12-JUN-11

Zimbabwe’s Mugabe Faces Pro-Democracy Push From Powerful Neighbor, South Africa

IHT 11-JUN-11

Amnesty joins Sadc lobby blitz

newsday 09-JUN-11

Feature : The BOOM that doesn’t favour Nana Konadu (Part II)

myjoyonline 07-JUN-11

Supermarket warning over terror threat to poison UK¿s food supplies

dailymail 05-JUN-11

Zimbabwe PM's rally thwarted, his party says (AP)

news 04-JUN-11

Zim 'coup plotters' released

zimonline 26-MAY-11

Zimbabwe: Manufacturing Sector Backs Indigenisation

allafrica 23-MAY-11

Southern Africa: SADC Turns Its Back On Human Rights

allafrica 23-MAY-11

Zimbabwe Unity Gov't, Election Talks Resume in Cape Town, South Africa

voanews 05-MAY-11

1.5m watch as John Paul II is beatified

examiner 02-MAY-11

Pope John Paul II beatified at Rome ceremony

aljazeera 01-MAY-11

[ asked]: Gaddafi was killed in broad daylight, his children hunted like animals and then we rush to recognise the NTC (National Transitional Council).Well well, that was Libya. Who will be next?

theindependent 08-FEB-12

[-said]: The continental body did not even protest against the Nato action,

thezimbabwemail 06-FEB-12

[ said]: We undermined ourselves as Africans. Today, in Libya, we have a broken people, whose lives, hopes and dreams have been shattered by Nato forces. In Zimbabwe, as Zanu PF, a party born out of a revolution, we have to be alive to the fact that there is no way we can expect to be excluded from the possibility of what happened to Gaddafi happening Mugabe fears Nato attack to us,

bulawayo24 03-FEB-12

[-said]: If they ended Gaddafi's rule, a man who had oil at his disposal, what can stop them (the international community) from doing it to us. A country such as Zimbabwe is in danger of being taken over by these colonialists who are out to get resources of other countries to boost their economies,

bulawayo24 03-FEB-12

[-said]: The problem is the English never honoured their obligations… the Thatcher government was lukewarm; John Major's administration was cold; and Blair's labour leadership outright icy,

insiderzim 01-FEB-12

[ said]: We should have said no, no to Nato,

news24 31-JAN-12

[asked:]: Well, well that was Libya. Who will be next?

voanews 31-JAN-12

[said:]: We should have said no, no to <name id=

zimtelegraph 31-JAN-12

[-said]: His garage was like butchery, he would put the old number plate on right-hand drive cars that illegally entered into the country and then sell them off through his agents,

allafrica 23-JAN-12

[said:]: I must also make it very clear that Zanu PF reserves the right to dissociate itself from a draft constitution which seeks to undermine the cardinal goals of our national liberation struggle and our national culture and values.

greatindaba 20-JAN-12

[ saying that]: Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger

sundaystandard 16-JAN-12

[warned:]: outsiders

insiderzim 14-JAN-12

[-said]: Sometimes there have been calls that I must retire but as long as there is still a lot of work to be done… I cannot leave you on your own in the deep-end,

theindependent 13-JAN-12

[-said]: Sometimes there have been calls that I must retire but as long as there is still a lot of work to be done... I cannot leave you on your own in the deep-end,

allafrica 13-JAN-12

[ said]: The minister saw one of our security officials along the way and asked him not to reveal the information to us. However, the official told us the details and we know the minister in question,

newsday 09-JAN-12

[-told]: The time has come now for us to prepare for elections next year,

thezimbabwemail 07-JAN-12

[-said]: Western imperialism.

insiderzim 03-JAN-12

[-said]: We are here as one. No embarrassing of each other, we are here to honour our hero,

thezimbabwemail 02-JAN-12

[ said]: Rex Nhongo becomes a symbol of our struggle, a figure of rich memories and an inspiration. He will continue to influence this nation well into the future, inspiring it to greater heights,

thezimbabwemail 02-JAN-12

[-said]: Kwedu takamboita bhora rainzi rovera bhora musango rekuti mumwe atadza kusarudzwa asi anoenda achiti ini ndinavo vangu vanondisupporter havambofa vakakuvhotera iwewe. Ibhora re rudzwai, ghedi racho riripi? (In our party, we once had people undermining each other because they claimed to have more support than other party cadres),

thezimbabwemail 02-JAN-12

[-told]: We just have to have elections next year,

thezimbabwemail 25-DEC-11

[-said]: We have so many men who have many girlfriends, even several of my ministers,

voanews 19-DEC-11

[ said]: The kidney ailment is also the disease that took my first wife, the late Sally Mugabe, who came from Ghana. Muzavazi was a man who stood for the truth all the time. He was dedicated to his duties and showed great loyalty to the party,

thezimbabwemail 18-DEC-11

[-said]: The Zimbabwe Prisons Service should also utilize 24 farms which we allocated them around the country to feed these inmates,

zimbabwemetro 16-DEC-11

[-told]: We want elections to end the GNU since our coalition partners are deliberately derailing our policies aimed at improving the majority of our people,

allafrica 16-DEC-11

[ said]: I call upon churches, international donor community, civic groups businesses and others to continue to support our prisons...

thezimbabwemail 15-DEC-11

[-said]: I am still here but all my fellow comrades are gone. What does this mean to me as an individual?

mg 15-DEC-11

[-said]: Sometimes the call [to retire] comes. But it would be wrong, completely wrong, when the West is still holding sanctions against us and pursuing regime change,

mg 15-DEC-11

[also announces that:]: the nation must not panic

zimeye 14-DEC-11

[-said this]: I am lucky God has given me the longer life than others to be with you, I cannot let you down. I cannot dump you now.

zimbabwemetro 14-DEC-11

[said:]: I cannot say I am now on the shore that would be a demonstration of loss of confidence in myself and an act of complete cowardice. I am not a coward,

zimbabwemetro 14-DEC-11

[-said]: If they ended Gaddafi’s rule, a man who had oil at his disposal, what can stop them (the international community) from doing it to us. A country such as Zimbabwe is in danger of being taken over by these colonialists who are out to get resources of other countries to boost their economies,

zimbabwemetro 12-DEC-11

[-told]: This inclusive government must now see its death. It must come to an end, and we must dig its grave. Let us now start preparing for elections,

mg 12-DEC-11

[ said]: He only said he would send us four camels and that was it. The man had no other investments in Zimbabwe,

zimbabwemetro 12-DEC-11

[-said]: Imperialists are not good people at all,

zimbabwemetro 12-DEC-11

[ said]: We undermined ourselves as Africans. Today, in Libya, we have a broken people, whose lives, hopes and dreams have been shattered by NATO forces. In Zimbabwe, as ZANU-PF, a party born out of a revolution, we have to be alive to the fact that there is no way we can expect to be excluded from the possibility of what happened to Gaddafi happening Mugabe fears NATO attack to us,

zimbabwemetro 12-DEC-11

[-said]: You are entering into petty deals with them while we sought to empower you by giving you the land. We shall take it away from you if you do not want to use it and give it to those that can be productive on the land,

zimbabwemetro 12-DEC-11

[-said]: I am here but all my fellow comrades are all gone. What does this mean to me as an individual,

zimbabwemetro 12-DEC-11

[-added]: These values are our greatest weapon that will see people own a new status as a happy people,

zimbabwemetro 12-DEC-11

[-said]: When I look around me, I realize that all those that I plotted the liberation struggle with, the founding fathers of Zimbabwe, are all gone,

zimbabwemetro 12-DEC-11

[-said]: Your leadership in the inclusive government urges you to desist from any acts of violence that will cause harm to others and become a blight on our society. As Zimbabweans, we need to foster an environment of tolerance and treat each other with dignity and respect irrespective of age, gender, race, ethnicity, tribe, political or religious affiliation,

swradioafrica 12-DEC-11

[-said]: Sometimes the call (to retire) comes. It would be wrong, completely wrong when the West is still holding sanctions against us and pursuing regime change,

thezimbabwemail 11-DEC-11

[ said]: If we are to go to an election tomorrow, against the chaos of 2008, the disaster, but now with this new vibrancy, surely we'll know how to vote,

thezimbabwemail 11-DEC-11

[-told]: Sometimes the call comes (to retire). It will be wrong, completely wrong when the West is keeping us under sanctions. It would be an act of cowardice, I am not a coward, no matter what the West might say,

iafrica 11-DEC-11

[-said]: That is why we are saying that that this creature (unity government), this inclusive government, must now see its death. It must come to an end, and we must dig its grave,

iafrica 11-DEC-11

[-said]: It must come to an end and we must dig its grave. Let us now start preparing for elections and as we do that we are digging the grave of this monster.

voanews 11-DEC-11

[-said]: That is why we are saying that that this creature [unity government], this inclusive government must now see its death. It must come to an end, and we must dig its grave,

mg 11-DEC-11

[-told]: Sometimes the call [to retire] comes. It will be wrong, completely wrong when the West is keeping us under sanctions. It would be an act of cowardice. I am not a coward, no matter what the West might say,

mg 11-DEC-11

[-said]: That is why we are saying that that this creature (unity government), this inclusive government must now see its death. It must come to an end, and we must dig its grave,

allafrica 11-DEC-11

[-told]: They (MDC) hold certain posts. They continue to frustrate decisions. That is why we said we are not going to continue to look at this nonsense,

thezimbabwemail 11-DEC-11

[-said]: That is why we are saying that that this creature [of unity government], this inclusive government must now see its death. It must come to an end, and we must dig its grave,

mg 10-DEC-11

[-told]: Sometimes the call comes [to retire]. It [would] be wrong, completely wrong when the West is keeping us under sanctions. It would be an act of cowardice, I am not a coward, no matter what the West might say

mg 10-DEC-11

[-told]: Sometimes the call comes [to retire]. It will be wrong, completely wrong when the West is keeping us under sanctions. It would be an act of cowardice, I am not a coward, no matter what the West might say,

zimeye 10-DEC-11

[ said]: I know of cases of men who even though they are taking ARVs (anti-retroviral drugs) are running from one woman to the other,

zimeye 10-DEC-11

[ said]: Gaddafi was taking the Libyan riches to Europe; he was not investing in Africa. In Zimbabwe he only gave us two camels and there are still here. After all his Europeans friends are the ones who killed him, he died a painful death,

thezimbabwemail 09-DEC-11

[added:]: We think of our people ... we are busy taking care of our country.

voanews 09-DEC-11

[-said]: The GNU has become a drag on our nation. It must give way to an elected administration that is free to govern unhindered, free to pursue definite policies for the betterment of our people,

allafrica 09-DEC-11

[-told more]: He proceeded in a quite naive way investing in America, investing big monies in Europe and thinking that he was making friends with them,

iol 09-DEC-11

[added:]: He had become friends of the West and the British and Americans knew everything about Libya before they came to attack him.

thezimbabwemail 09-DEC-11

[-said]: The GPA is not a legitimate or democratic entity because some people in the inclusive government were completely rejected by the electorate in the 2008 elections. So we cannot allow this to continue and we are saying it is time we go for elections next year,

xinhuanet_en 09-DEC-11

[ said]: Well before the war in Libya, Britain and France were already positioning themselves to exploit the Libyan oil, reminding us of what they did during the [1884] Berlin Conference that saw the partitioning of Africa. The Libyan issue clearly shows that other countries which have resources like our own, which has diamonds, are on target,

xinhuanet_en 09-DEC-11

[ said]: Gaddafi tried to please them by taking his money to their banks. He even sent his children to Oxford University and accepted responsibility for the Lockerbie bombings. Gaddafi and the West were friends and we wondered what was happening but to our surprise he was killed in broad day light,

zimeye 09-DEC-11

[-said]: We will not reverse this policy. Let no one deceive themselves that it's devised for the elections. No, it's a fundamental policy,

trust 08-DEC-11

[-said]: We're saying time has come now to prepare for elections. We just have to have elections next year,

trust 08-DEC-11

[-added]: Our job at the top of the government structure is to come up with policies which we will then give to you for implementation,

zimbabwemetro 08-DEC-11

[-said]: We need a clean city. The problems that Harare faces are more compounded than that of Bulawayo. You go to Chitungwiza (town council), you find wars all over the place. They fight over this and that. Let us have a situation where our fights are that of service delivery. We can give each other money but let us ensure that services are better and do benefit the people that pay rates and tariffs to you as the local authorities,

zimbabwemetro 08-DEC-11

[-said]: Some of us are now surprised as to what is eating into the service delivery in most local authorities,

zimbabwemetro 08-DEC-11

[ said]: Don't kill our cities, please. Don't kill our country,

thezimbabwemail 04-DEC-11

[ said]: It is therefore critical that local authority programmes, as informed by the Millennium Development Goals and guided by Central Government, should always seek to address development challenges such as poverty, gender inequality, hunger and disease,

thezimbabwemail 04-DEC-11

[ said]: I wonder if the local government people in Harare have ever thought of planting trees to beautify the city. The trees we have, the jacarandas, were planted by settlers. If you go east to places like Singapore, Malaysia and China, there is careful urban planning,

thezimbabwemail 04-DEC-11

[ said]: I am not saying councillors should not get appropriate allowances; far from it. They should, however, strive to ensure that they provide good service to citizens,

thezimbabwemail 04-DEC-11

[ said]: They think we are that idiotic. We have got the land in the hands of our people and we now want the economy in the hands of our people. Hazvisi zvemahumbwe izvi (This is not child's play),

thezimbabwemail 04-DEC-11

[-told]: It’s a joyride some people are having on this chariot called the global political agreement,

zimbabwereporter 03-DEC-11

[-said]: Ministry of Youth’s function is to chart the course (of indigenisation) and leave the supervision to other ministries. It’s not a one-man affair but it’s for all ministries,

zimeye 03-DEC-11

[-said this]: The president also said if he wants to marry all these women, he should officialise the relationships like what South African President (Jacob) Zuma has done. There is nothing wrong with that. He said the premier needs to sort himself out and decide what he wants and who he wants.

theindependent 02-DEC-11

[-told]: He who wants many wives, one or two, it’s his own choice,

zimeye 02-DEC-11

[-said]: If Tsvangirai chooses his wife, why should people mind about that because it’s his choice? Newspapers write about his marriage, why?

zimeye 02-DEC-11

[-said]: Ministry of Youth's function is to chart the course (of indigenisation) and leave the supervision to other ministries. It's not a one-man affair but it's for all ministries,

allafrica 02-DEC-11

[ said]: Everyone has a right to do what he wishes. But this one [Tsvangirai] is being targeted and mobbed by the media every day. Please leave him alone,

thetimes 01-DEC-11

[ said]: Everyone has a right to do what he wishes. But this one (Tsvangirai) is being targeted and mobbed by the media everyday. Please leave him alone,

iafrica 01-DEC-11

[ said]: We want to talk to people to get our message. People need dialogue, not machetes or knives,

thezimbabwemail 01-DEC-11

[-said]: black market . is run and supported by a mercenary breed of wily and selfish merchants, a breed that neither sows nor sweats,

insiderzim 28-NOV-11

[-asked]: Imi pamakaroora makaridza mabhoswo here,

zimtelegraph 27-NOV-11

[-told]: I am sorry we have not been in control of the mechanisms, mechanisms that we thought would lay the road to an election this year in terms of our decision taken at our last conference in Mutare (last December),

zimonline 26-NOV-11

[-said]: Those riding on the chariot of this creature (unity government) and enjoying it don't want the pleasure to go,

zimonline 26-NOV-11

[-said]: Do not get tempted into that (homosexuality). You are young people. If you go that direction, we will punish you severely,

greatindaba 25-NOV-11

[-criticised]: Do not get tempted into that (homosexuality). You are young people. Mukaenda ikoko(if yuo go there) we will punish you severely.

greatindaba 25-NOV-11

Tsvangirai [-said]: Following my discussions with the President (Robert Mugabe) yesterday, there has been an understanding that the Council of Ministers (headed by Tsvangirai) will discuss implementation and that this, sometimes confusion of policy formulation by cabinet, and implementation by Council of Ministers has to be proper,

thezimbabwemail 10-FEB-12

Tsvangirai [ said]: One can see they are running out of time on their candidate. President Mugabe's health is definitely a serious worry to Zanu PF,

bulawayo24 01-FEB-12

Sata [ said]: We don’t know the policies of Morgan – he has other people speaking for him rather than speaking for himself. There will be elections and Mugabe will go and someone else will take over but not someone imposed by the Western countries,

sundaystandard 30-JAN-12

Mnangagwa [ said]: I remember I would listen to him (Mpofu) telling the President (Robert Mugabe) that he was popular and I would say this is just propaganda since Mpofu is a trained journalist,

newsday 30-JAN-12

Tsvangirai [ said]: One can see they are running out of time on their candidate. President Mugabe’s health is definitely a serious worry to Zanu-PF,

zimeye 29-JAN-12

Tsvangirai [ said]: One can see they are running out of time on their candidate. President Mugabe's health is definitely a serious worry to ZANU-PF,

iafrica 29-JAN-12

Tsvangirai [ said]: One can see they are running out of time on their candidate. President Mugabe's health is definitely a serious worry to Zanu-PF,

thezimbabwemail 29-JAN-12

Sata [-said]: We don't know the policies of Morgan – he has other people speaking for him rather than speaking for himself. There will be elections and Mugabe will go and someone else will take over but not someone imposed by the Western countries,

bulawayo24 28-JAN-12

Paxman [replied:]: No, I'm comparing you to Mugabe.

bulawayo24 28-JAN-12

Mujuru [-said]: I am sure the truth will come out. It was a good beginning. It was a good start but in between the period of inquest I was called by his Excellency (President Robert Mugabe) since I am at work and then I came back later therefore some of the witnesses had finished their business,

thezimbabwemail 16-JAN-12

Charamba [-said]: President Robert Mugabe has started his annual leave which will run up to the end of January next year,

thezimbabwemail 28-DEC-11

Biti [-said]: According to the election roadmap, Mugabe does not have the power to determine the election date without consulting the Prime Minister,

zimbabwemetro 19-DEC-11

Sata [ said]: No! No! President Mugabe is a neighbour. He is an African neighbour and there is no connection with the Americans. The Americans come; president Bush, it’s a coincidence. That shows that Zambia is gaining back the glory which it lost,

zimeye 07-DEC-11

Mujuru [ said]: We need unity in the party and respect our leader President Robert Mugabe. We are here for him. When I ...visit places like this province our leader always ask me whether we were not here to create some other presidents. He will be concerned to know what will be happening so as your leaders we must not disappoint,

thezimbabwemail 05-DEC-11

Charamba [-told]: Fundamentally, he (Mugabe) would want to know why the Church of the British state, the Anglican Church, has remained so loudly silent while the people of Zimbabwe and these people include Anglicans, are suffering from illegal sanctions,

zimonline 26-NOV-11

Makumbe [ says]: If I were to be part of the current national unity government I would immediately call for the impeachment of President Mugabe because he is now too old to rule,

allafrica 26-NOV-11

Chamisa [-said]: What is in dispute is the position of the President. Mugabe cannot drag the whole country into harmonized elections because he lost,

insiderzim 24-NOV-11

Nkomo [ said]: Police in Matabeleland are intolerant and they have been banning a number of non-governmental meetings and they are afraid that Gukurahundi atrocities are now being exposed; they are trying to cover up for (President) Mugabe,

financialgazette 12-NOV-11

Makumbe [-said]: There is no direct instruction by Robert Mugabe to the police and the security lieutenants to stop violence and that anyone who is violent must be arrested,

allafrica 11-NOV-11

Smith [-said]: This government has no real power. Furthermore, Robert Mugabe is seeking to provoke the anticipated elections to get rid of Tsvangirai,

swissinfo 04-NOV-11

Carson [-told]: Specifically this would mean the holding of free, fair and internationally monitored elections. It will also require state institutions to be de-linked from [President Robert Mugabe's former ruling] ZANU-PF,

voanews 03-NOV-11

Tsvangirai [said:]: Whether you like it or not he (Mugabe) may say I was sick and I had to go and seek medical attention. Who am I to question him? I do not want to divulge (his real ailment), what you are trying to draw me is to tell what ailment he is suffering from. Maybe the attention (Mugabe needs) is outside the country. Maybe we do not have the expertise (in Zimbabwe). What do you want him to do? He is not certainly suffering from malaria as you would understand, which we can obtain (treatment for) at the nearest hospit

cnn 02-NOV-11

Tsvangirai [-told]: On Monday during our meeting, Mugabe said he is now tired and wants to quit and rest but he said elements in Zanu PF do not want him to step down,

allafrica 31-OCT-11

Tsvangirai [-said]: My analysis of this is that if we had accepted that draftconstitution and kept cool heads, Mugabe would have been out of power within a much shorter time,

thezimbabwemail 25-OCT-11

Tsvangirai [said:]: Within a short space of time, circumstances would have forced Mugabe to accept what the SADC (Southern African Development Community) and Zimbabweans finally pushed him to do after losing the presidential election in March 2008. He would have worked out an exit strategy fairly early on.

zimonline 25-OCT-11

Tsvangirai [-said]: My analysis of this is that if we had accepted that draft constitution and kept cool heads, Mugabe would have been out of power within a much shorter time,

zimonline 25-OCT-11

Tsvangirai [-said]: Peace and national security must reflect the changed expectations of all citizens, national institutions and State organs in a plural political system. (President) Mugabe nodded in agreement when I said this, but continued to act in a manner that ran contrary and that was difficult to understand.

newsday 24-OCT-11

Charamba [-told]: There were serious differences, founded on principle, between President Mugabe and Col Gaddafi,

zimeye 24-OCT-11

Tsvangirai [ said]: I believe that once those systems are in place, you cannot fail to choose your leader and governing party between that old man (President Robert Mugabe) and a younger candidate, your son-in-law, myself,

thezimbabwemail 24-OCT-11

Nkala [said:]: You are peddling lies which you cannot prove. You ask Robert Mugabe who formed Gukurahundi? Who deployed Gukurahundi in Matabeleland? Who gave them instructions to do what they did? It wasn't me. Its people who are ill-informed who pick things from the press. You ask Mugabe, he owned Gukurahundi.

allafrica 21-OCT-11

Chinamasa [-said]: but we will put our best foot forward and President Mugabe is our best foot. We can't change the captain in the midst of a storm.

allafrica 21-OCT-11

Nkala [said:]: It was all foolish. It was because this weak man, so called Robert Mugabe wanted to weed some of us out. That was the reason, it was not about cars. It was blown out of proportion and if you believe it, continue to believe it if you like, it's up to you.

allafrica 21-OCT-11

Nkala [said:]: You are peddling lies which you cannot prove. You ask Robert Mugabe who formed Gukurahundi? Who deployed Gukurahundi in Matabeleland? Who gave them instructions to do what they did? It wasn’t me. Its people who are ill-informed who pick things from the press. You ask Mugabe, he owned Gukurahundi.

swradioafrica 19-OCT-11

Nkala [said:]: It was all foolish. It was because this weak man, so called Robert Mugabe wanted to weed some of us out. That was the reason, it was not about cars. It was blown out of proportion and if you believe it, continue to believe it if you like, it’s up to you.

swradioafrica 19-OCT-11

Moyo [ said]: The tittle-tattle in the cables about President Mugabe’s succession reached a peak in 2005 when the chatting became a free-for-all and even more robust with calls from across the political spectrum, but especially from within Zanu PF, as witnessed at the party’s 2006 Goromonzi annual people’s conference, that President Mugabe ‘must go’,

zimbabwereporter 04-OCT-11

Chamisa [-said]: This violence must stop. (President) Mugabe said there should be peace. The call for peace should migrate from your lips and stop contradictions. Violence must stop and this demon of beating up people should not continue. But for it to stop, we need to pray. Zanu PF believes in Chipangano, but we are on total promise and believe in chirangano (promise),

newsday 27-SEP-11

Mandela [-had asked that]: The ANC had defended (President) Mugabe and wanted to continue to defend him, but the situation in Zimbabwe was creating a threat to his legacy. It was time for him to go in order to preserve that legacy.

newsday 12-SEP-11

Mandela [-reported]: The ANC did not wish to pressure (President) Mugabe, but to ‘advise’ him that the ANC considered (President) Mugabe a liberation hero, not just for Zimbabwe but for Africa,

newsday 12-SEP-11

Tsvangirai [ said]: Who knew that we would sit down with Mugabe and discuss issues with the level of arrogance that old man has? But now he tells me that our people, vanhu vedu, vanhu vedu, are running to the Americans,

zimbabwemetro 12-SEP-11

Tsvangirai [-said]: The inclusive government cannot create jobs because of conflict of policy. Today, Mugabe assures investors that their investments are safe, but the next day (Empowerment Minister Saviour) Kasukuwere threatens to close down mines,

alertnet 10-SEP-11

Tsvangirai [-said]: The inclusive government cannot create jobs because of conflict of policy. Today, Mugabe assures investors that their investments are safe, but the next day [Empowerment Minister Saviour] Kasukuwere threatens to close down mines,

news24 10-SEP-11

Moyo [-told]: Stressing his loyalty to Mugabe, Mnangagwa told Msika his continued presence would be a distraction to any successor and a disruption to party unity. Msika countered that Mnangagwa's prospects to succeed Mugabe were good and convinced him to remain,

insiderzim 10-SEP-11

Dell [ says]: Moyo noted that Mugabe genuinely ‘Mugabe fears hanging’‘Mugabe fears hanging’ if he leaves office and suggested international guarantees for his safety could help persuade Mugabe to go,

zimbabwemetro 09-SEP-11

Moyo [-also said]: The key to a healthier politic dynamic was Mugabe’s removal from the scene,

zimbabwemetro 09-SEP-11

McGee [-added that]: We have been unable to confirm the physical altercation; nevertheless, there appears to have been a serious rift between Mugabe and Mnangagwa over the allocation of ministries. Mnangagwa is loathe to allow any of the security apparatus to pass to the MDC.

thezimbabwemail 07-SEP-11

Chrétien [-said]: I said of course, Mugabe has no oil ... and he didn't like it.

CBC 07-SEP-11

Dell [-said]: Gono agreed that ongoing economic and political developments all served as foundation for a post-Mugabe dispensation that had yet to be worked out. He observed that economic distress impelled a perceived need for change but factional infighting was delaying the succession for which all were posturing,

zimbabwemetro 06-SEP-11

Dell [-wrote]: The Governor confided that Mugabe appeared to be deteriorating mentally and losing his capacity to balance factional interests,

newzimbabwe 05-SEP-11

Dell [-said]: Gono predicted Mugabe would not include Moyo in the new (Zanu PF) politburo (adding that) without a politburo seat, Moyo could not plausibly continue as the government’s official spokesman. Gono confirmed that many in Zanu PF were fed up with Jonathan (Moyo) and his approach and supported his ouster,

newsday 05-SEP-11

Dell [-concluded]: He added that Mugabe also expressed displeasure with Local Governments Minister Chombo and Foreign Minister Mudenge, and that both of them could be on their way out as well.

thezimbabwemail 03-SEP-11

Dell [-said]: Gono predicted Mugabe would not include Moyo in the new (Zanu PF) Politburo (adding that) without a Politburo seat, Moyo could not plausibly continue as the government’s official spokesman. Gono confirmed that many in Zanu PF were fed up with Jonathan and his approach and supported his ouster,

newzimbabwe 03-SEP-11

Dell [-said]: Gono predicted Mugabe would not include Moyo in the new (Zanu PF) politburo (adding that) without a politburo seat, Moyo could not plausibly continue as the government’s official spokesman. Gono confirmed that many in Zanu PF were fed up with Jonathan and his approach and supported his ouster,

thezimbabwemail 03-SEP-11

Tsvangirai [-said]: Instead, an impoverished and hopeless people precisely offer the kind of environment in which dictators like Robert Mugabe thrive,

insiderzim 02-SEP-11

Makumbe [ says]: All kinds of suspicion exist, but President Mugabe is not prepared to step down and pass on the baton,

thezimbabwemail 30-AUG-11

Bennett [-said]: Everything that I stand for Robert Mugabe abhors,

bestofmalawi 29-AUG-11

Tsvangirai [said:]: Yesterday, (President) Mugabe spoke on violence and I said to him his party organs must respect his statements, otherwise his call would be irrelevant. We told him that if he wants he can stop it. We in the MDC-T are not violent, but victims. We say no more to being victims of violence. Don’t start violence and we are sending the same message to Zanu PF. Stop violence.

newsday 22-AUG-11

Brown [ said]: The President (Robert Mugabe) himself said on several occasions we are a model investor. He’s appreciative of our involvement in the social fabric of the country. That’s providing jobs, trying to enhance infrastructure and also various social projects in the areas we mine,

newsday 22-AUG-11

Eldred Masunungure [said:]: Naturally, President Mugabe is isolated. He’s never really been an extrovert, so loneliness is not something new. But, his generation is fast depleting – Muzenda, Msika, Nkomo and many others. He’s been shaken to the core.

newsday 18-AUG-11

Moyo [-says]: The thinking behind this strategy is that at that time it will not be practical or reasonable for President Mugabe to be a presidential candidate given the allegations that are being made about his age and alleged poor health,

theindependent 12-AUG-11

Mbeki [-said]: Zimbabwe was their (Sadc's) biggest challenge and it failed completely to deal with (President) Mugabe.... If you look at all the fraudulent elections in Zimbabwe since 2000, where was Sadc?

allafrica 12-AUG-11

Mbeki [-also criticized]: Your resolutions will not make a difference because SADC will not listen. Do you think you can influence Mugabe to follow the democratic path? Zimbabweans have been brutalised by state agents and the so-called war veterans.

swradioafrica 09-AUG-11

Moyo [ said]: The thinking behind this strategy is that at that time it will not be practical and reasonable for President Mugabe to be a presidential candidate given the allegations that are being made about his age and alleged poor health,

thezimbabwemail 08-AUG-11

Tsvangirai [-told]: (We want to say to Mugabe) if you don't want to go peacefully we will remove you violently,

newzimbabwe 25-JUL-11

Moyo [-said]: brutal and chaotic response was more about Mugabe’s political survival than about redressing historical injustice.

swradioafrica 20-JUL-11

Moyo [-said]: no longer a dismissible opposition slogan but a strategic necessity that desperately needs urgent legal and constitutional action by Mugabe himself well ahead of the presidential election scheduled for March 2008 in order to safeguard Zimbabwe’s national interest, security and sovereignty.

swradioafrica 20-JUL-11

Moyo [wrote:]: The simple truth which ZEC has found hard to stomach and which Mugabe and his shocked cronies have found hard to swallow is that Morgan Tsvangirai won the presidential election even if with less than the required absolute majority. In other words, Tsvangirai got more votes than Mugabe and thus defeated him.

swradioafrica 20-JUL-11

Mnangagwa [-said]: If we try to open healed wounds by discussing such issues, we will be undermining and failing to recognise the statesmanship exhibited by President Mugabe and his counterpart, Dr Nkomo, when they signed the Unity Accord in 1987,

swradioafrica 19-JUL-11

Dell [said:]: (President) Robert Mugabe has survived for so long because he is more clever and more ruthless than any other politician in Zimbabwe. To give the devil his due, he is a brilliant tactician and has long thrived on his ability to abruptly change the rules of the game, radicalise the political dynamic and force everyone else to react to his agenda.

thezimbabwemail 18-JUL-11

Dell [said:]: One thing at least is certain, Mugabe will not wake up one morning a changed man, resolved to set right all he has wrought.

thezimbabwemail 18-JUL-11

Nkomo [-stated]: President Mugabe came to Bulawayo when we were over that period with the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo and we all went to Brethren-In-Christ Church here in town and he said it was a moment of madness

allafrica 12-JUL-11

Makumbe [-said]: The utterances show that Mugabe is no longer in control and he has become a puppet of the military. They are simply sending a message that Mugabe and Zanu PF are finished and have to depend on soldiers to keep them in power,

zimbabwemetro 25-JUN-11

Moyo [-said]: Against this background, ZEC's perverse delay in announcing the result of the presidential election leaves Zimbabweans and the international community with only one gloomy conclusion: the defeated Mugabe and his shocked hangers-on are using the delay to scheme up a dirty game plan whose nefarious purpose is to reverse Tsvangirai's electoral victory with the collusion of ZEC at all cost and by any means available. This is being done under a barrage of confused and confusing Zanu PF talk around a recount, run

allafrica 24-JUN-11

Tsvangirai [-said]: The problem is that people like lies and evade the truth. An old man (Mugabe) is lying about what happened in South Africa. President Mugabe was there with his delegation and I was also there with my own delegation and he should not lie to us about what happened,

zimbabwemetro 23-JUN-11

Tsvangirai [-said]: I asked President Mugabe that you call yourself Commander-in- Chief who gives policy direction to these is institutions. If they are not sent by you it means they are defying your command or they are not respecting you. I told him they were doing what they were doing in your name so you cannot deny responsibility for what is happening,

zimbabwemetro 23-JUN-11

Tsvangirai [-said]: The problem is that people like lies and evade the truth. An old man (President Mugabe) is lying about what happened in South Africa. President Mugabe was there with his delegation and I was also there with my own delegation and he should not lie to us about what happened,

newsday 22-JUN-11

Moyo [-said]: Against this background, ZEC’s perverse delay in announcing the result of the presidential election leaves Zimbabweans and the international community with only one gloomy conclusion: the defeated Mugabe and his shocked hangers-on are using the delay to scheme up a dirty game plan whose nefarious purpose is to reverse Tsvangirai’s electoral victory with the collusion of ZEC at all cost and by any means available. This is being done under a barrage of confused and confusing Zanu PF talk around a recount,

thezimbabwemail 20-JUN-11

Makumbe [-said]: The book paints (President) Mugabe as a coward, but other than the book, Tekere was kicked out of Zanu PF, formed his own party and ran against (President) Mugabe. (President) Mugabe does not forgive that,

newsday 15-JUN-11

Nkala [said:]: People get intimidated by his (President Mugabe’s) eloquence, but I have no regard for him. In fact, he is one of the people I have a very low opinion of. Some people are talented to emerge among others, but it doesn’t mean they are better than others.

newsday 13-JUN-11

Moyo [-said]: In fact, we are amazed that there are some people who call themselves democrats but who develop all sorts of sicknesses and illnesses when they hear that Mugabe is going to be a candidate in an election … and who want to construct an election roadmap whose essence is that Robert Mugabe should not be a candidate … that is their problem,

newzimbabwe 12-JUN-11

Mutasa [-said]: Although Cde Tekere was even eyeing President Mugabe's position, we want to thank him (President Mugabe) for accepting the Manicaland province's position of according him the national hero status,

newzimbabwe 10-JUN-11

Nkala [-said]: But you cannot reduce Robert Mugabe’s role. When (President) Mugabe dies, I will not diminish his role, he is a hero but some of his associates are idiots,

newsday 10-JUN-11

Obama [-said]: The president, President Mugabe - I think I've made my views clear - has not acted all the time in the best interest of the Zimbabwean people and has been resistant to the kinds of democratic changes that need to take place,

CBSnews 07-JUN-11

Tsvangirai [-said]: I see there is someone who is conspicuous by his absence. It’s none other than President Mugabe. It is a serious omission and you should extend an invitation to him,

thezimbabwemail 28-MAY-11

Eldred Masunungure [ said]: The constitution is very clear on the route to take if Mugabe wakes up not there, but for this to work, Zanu-PF needs to have a clear succession plan in place,

MailGuardian 27-MAY-11

Blair [-said]: One of the myths that Mugabe used was this thing that we wouldn’t provide money for land reform,

theindependent 25-MAY-11

Makumbe [ said]: Mujuru is likely to be the successor to Mugabe because she is the Vice-President,

allafrica 23-MAY-11

Charamba [ said]: They have always been done by President Mugabe,

thestandard 21-MAY-11

Blair [-said]: One of the myths that Mugabe used was this thing that we wouldn't provide money for land reform,

allafrica 20-MAY-11

Makumbe [-said]: What we know is that President Mugabe can call for elections anytime regardless of what Sadc says,

newsday 11-MAY-11

Lombardi [-said]: It (the Vatican) cannot tell Mugabe not to come if he wants to take part, just like it wouldn’t tell no to (U.S. President Barack) Obama or (French President Nicolas) Sarkozy, if they had wanted to come,

zimbabwemetro 05-MAY-11

Makumbe [ said]: They can’t hold onto (President) Mugabe as a candidate. By 2013, he will be 89 and won’t have the stamina. It will be difficult for him considering that he lost in 2008. The plan will be to offload (President) Mugabe and get a candidate who can stand shoulder-to-shoulder with Tsvangirai,

newsday 04-MAY-11

Mnangagwa [ said]: They and their western sponsors should stop fooling themselves as President Mugabe has proved beyond doubt that he is a tried and tested leader who still commands overwhelming support from his party, Zanu PF,

thezimbabwemail 03-MAY-11

Bennett [-said]: The blame rests squarely on the hands of Mugabe and the junta that controls him, which is now very apparent by the state of the Global Political Agreement and state of affairs in the country.

theindependent 02-MAY-11

Tsvangirai [-also said]: Robert Mugabe and Zanu (PF) took this country to its knees in 30 years. We have a duty in the next government to bring it back.

thezimbabwean 01-MAY-11

Lombardi [-said]: It (the Vatican) cannot tell Mugabe not to come if he wants to take part, just like it wouldn't tell no to (U.S. President Barack) Obama or (French President Nicolas) Sarkozy, if they had wanted to come,

radiovop 30-APR-11