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Mugabe's Last-Minute Instructions To His Soldiers Show Where Real Power Lies In Zimbabwe

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Robert "Morgan Tsvangirai's Solution" Mugabe receives the Honour Salute at Entebbe Airport in Kampala, Uganda upon his arrival for the African Union Heads of State and Government Summit on Refugees. Mugabe had just left Zimbabwe where he huddled publicly with his Defence Minister and top commander for last minute instructions at Harare International Airport. It is ironic that he should be attending this summit after having caused the fleeing of countless Zimbabweans who have claimed refugee status in South Africa, Britain, the USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and other countries. But we have always known that the dictator has no shame. Harare, Zimbabwe, 22 October 2009 Those of you who are not in Zimbabwe would not have seen this, but I was surprised that even the people here in Zimbabwe missed the significance of an occurrence at the airport yesterday, where Mugabe was preparing to fly out to Uganda to attend yet another useless Summit and line his pockets with even m...

ZANU PF Tries To Justify Its US$300 Million Warchest From Plunder Of Diamonds As It Indoctrinates The Military

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The Zimbabwe Air Force (the bane of rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo at the end of the 1990s decade, where they decimated columns and nests of guerrillas fighting against Joseph Kabila Snr) is seen here marching in August this year. Zimbabwe's military is being openly, deliberately and systematically indoctrinated by ZANU PF through "lectures" at the Staff College. Yesterday, it was the Minister of National Security who was telling them NGOs are enemies of Zimbabwe, Trojan Horses for the West's "regime change agenda" Harare, Zimbabwe, 22 October 2009 Former Defence Minister and ZANU PF heavyweight, Sydney Sekeremayi was at the military Staff College in Harare yesterday where ministers appear in order to give political direction to the soldiers of the country under training. Sekeremayi, who is now the Minister of State For National Security (a superfluous and redundant appointment designed by Mugabe solely for the purpose of bloating government and ...