Gert Grobler Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/gert-grobler/ The low down on African affairs Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Gert Grobler Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/gert-grobler/ 32 32 Ravalomanana’s family don’t know here he is. https://jjcornish.com/2014/10/ravalomananas-family-dont-know/ Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/10/ravalomananas-family-dont-know/ The family of outsted Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana say they don’t know his whereabouts after he was seized by security forces yesterday. Ravalomanana slipped into the island state on Sunday, leaving South Africa, where he’s spent five years in exile, without a passport. Madagascar president Heri Rajoanarimampiani told South Africa’s ambassador Gert Grobler today that […]

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]]> The family of outsted Madagascar president Marc Ravalomanana say they don’t know his whereabouts after he was seized by security forces yesterday.

Ravalomanana slipped into the island state on Sunday, leaving South Africa, where he’s spent five years in exile, without a passport.

Madagascar president Heri Rajoanarimampiani told South Africa’s ambassador Gert Grobler today that ousted president Marc Ravalomanana’s being held outside the capital Antananarivo for his own safety.

About 60 mean wearing balaclavas shot their way into the Ravalomanana home yesterday, breaking four doors in their operation seizing him.

His family say he was injured and his chronic medication was left behind.

Ravalomamana was seen by friends entering a helicopter today.

Rajoanarimampianini told Grobler that the former president had been moved to another location this morning.

He said there were elements threatening to kill the former president

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]]> Ravalomanana’s return seen a chance for reconciliation https://jjcornish.com/2014/10/ravalomananas-return-seen-chance-reconciliation/ Mon, 13 Oct 2014 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2014/10/ravalomananas-return-seen-chance-reconciliation/ Madagascar authorities continue to hold ousted president Marc Ravaolomanana who slipped back into the country on Sunday, ending five years of exile in South Africa. Key ambassadors in Antananarivo, including South Africa’s envoy Gert Grobler met in the capital today to decide how best to react to this destabilising development on the island state struggling […]

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]]> Madagascar authorities continue to hold ousted president Marc Ravaolomanana who slipped back into the country on Sunday, ending five years of exile in South Africa.

Key ambassadors in Antananarivo, including South Africa’s envoy Gert Grobler met in the capital today to decide how best to react to this destabilising development on the island state struggling to regain normalcy after the 2009 coup that overthrew Ravalomanana.

South African ambassador Gert Grobler met Madagascar President Heri Rajoanarimampianini this morning.

He discounted reports that Marc Ravalomanana returned to Madagascar with South African and SADC support.

The role of a South African registered aircraft, that brought Ravalomanana to an airport south of the capital is being investigated.

Grobler says Ravalomanana’s unscheduled return might be an opportunity for Rajoanarimampianini to sit down with former presidents and discuss national reconciliation.

 

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