Robert Mugabe
From Robert Mugabe to Alexander Downer: Jeremy Hearder retires after 65 years as a diplomat
Few people could work the same job for 65 years and not get bored. But Jeremy Hearder did – and he got to criss-cross the world doing it.
- James Massola
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Use-by date on the Commonwealth looks to be up
Is the Commonwealth still fit for purpose in the 21st century?
- The Herald's View
- Letters
- Letters
Bid to engineer pathway for women at UTS is ‘absurd’
The perception will remain that the women in the course are not as academically worthy as the men, even if they are the best and brightest in their cohort.
- Opinion
- Opinion
Mugabe: how the bread basket of Africa became a basket-case
Like too many liberation leaders, Mugabe descended into a morass of predictable and tiresome psychoses brought on by a love of power.
- Nicholas McGowan
Zimdancehall: music that reflects troubled country’s frustrations
The story of Zimbabwe's decline can be told by politicians, rights activists and economists. But it can also be narrated through the lyrics of Zimdancehall music.
- Patrick Kingsley
- Opinion
- Opinion
The anticlimactic death of a man who ruined the country I call home
For years, I witnessed first-hand how the gears of his repressive regime ground.
- Peter Godwin
Teacher, prisoner and strongman: A timeline of Robert Mugabe’s life
Mugabe was born in British-ruled Southern Rhodesia in 1924 and, after rising to power in 1980, sought to rule Zimbabwe for life.
- MacDonald Dzirutwe
Former Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe dead at 95
The former president was forced to resign in 2017 after a 37-year rule, his early promise eroded by economic turmoil, disputed elections and human rights violations.
- Farai Mutsaka
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