December 2021
South Africa’s anti-apartheid hero Desmond Tutu dies
Desmond Tutu, the Nobel Peace laureate whose moral might permeated South African society during apartheid’s darkest hours and into the unchartered territory of new democracy, has died
September 2019
- Opinion
- Zimbabwe crisis
Robert Mugabe was not always a monster
The late president could have been his country’s Nelson Mandela – a figure of who he was intensely jealous – but instead chose racial hatred and division.
- Martin Fletcher
Zimbabwe's strongman Robert Mugabe dies aged 95
Robert Mugabe, who long railed against the West and brutally hung on to power for 37 years, has died aged 95.
- Farai Mutsaka and Christopher Torchia