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Robert "The Solution"Mugabe, who is officially on leave, was at the swearing-in ceremony for President Guebuza of Mozambique yesterday (photo above). Meantime, his friends and allies were busy kicking tobacco farmers off their lands, having waited until now, when the the tobacco is ready for harvesting and curing before pouncing. It is plunder and pillage, no question about it. Harare, Zimbabwe, 15 January 2010 In a shocking and naked case of pure and unbridled greed, plunder and pillage, two senior ZANU PF members, one a Government minister, have gone about "evicting'' seven of the remaining white farmers in the Nyazura area of Manicaland province in order to harvest the farmers' tobacco crop, which is now just maturing. Didymus Mutasa, Mugabe's minister in charge of the Secret Police, the Central Intelligence Organisation, is believed to be behind the move, which is being masterminded by Themba Mliswa, who has also been causing havoc for years now in M...

Jacob Zuma, the South African president, with Joseph Kabila, the new Chairman of SADC and a Mugabe ally in the DRC in September this year. Tsvangirai left Harare yesterday without biding goodbye to his new best friend, Robert Mugabe as the relations between sour over outstanding issues. It is unlikely that Tsvangirai, who is visiting, Mozambique, DRC, South Africa and other SADC nations, will get any joy from the SADC leaders, who have made no moves to convene a Summit despite the pullout. Harare, Zimbabwe, 20 October 2009 Morgan Tsvangirai left Harare yesterday to tour Southern African countries in an effort to get SADC to intervene in Zimbabwe and "save" the Inclusive Government, while Robert Mugabe's staff insisted, as I told you over the weekend, that the Prime Minister had not communicated officially what his party's position is and therefore was still Prime Minister and the MDC still part of government. There is a cabinet meeting today at Munhumutapa Building in...