South Africa needs a new liberation, says Mugabe
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe says South Africa needs a new liberation. The problem is not xenophobia, it’s whites clinging to jobs, power and privileges they grabbed during apartheid. We must help them, he tells journalists in Gaborone as he wraps up a meeting to SADC headquarters. Robert Mugabe was answering a question about whether the […]
Mugabe accused SA of protectionism
South Africa’s blocking free trade with the region, says Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe at the end of an inspection tour of the SADC secretariat in Gaborone. The 92-year-old president who currently hold the chairs of both the regional organisation and the African Union says South Africa insures that trade moves in only one direction. Robert […]
APRM hurdles confronted at workshop
A meeting of non governmental organisations in Gaborone has heard of severe challenges facing the African Peer Review Mechanism. The 12-year-old process of monitoring democracy and good governance in Africa is confronted with both political and financial hurdles. At least 19 African Union members have not acceded to the African Peer Review Mechanism. Seven of […]