Keyword: Robert Mugabe

Will 2013 See the End of Mugabe's 33-Year Rule?

Picture: Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe courtesy Wikimedia Commons. Video On 31 May Zimbabwe's Constitutional Court, the nation's highest court, ordered that elections should take place by the end of July. The elections will end an uneasy power-sharing government between President Robert Mugabe and Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai, which was formed following tense negotiations in September 2008.

As the country goes to the polls the Frontline Club in London hosts panel of experts to discuss what this election will mean for the future of Zimbabwe. Will 2013 see the...

Murdoch, Mugabe, Malema and the Media

Glenn Ashton - The media will always be a contested space. Some insist there should be no controls over the amorphous beast that is the media; others insist we cannot have a free-for-all. In South Africa we presently walk an uneasy middle road between a free press, a powerful public broadcaster as well as corporate and political oligopolies, which wish to place self-serving limits on our freedom of expression.  The sleazy British phone hacking scandal within the extensive Murdoch media empire poses a...