Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa has not faced official investigation or prosecution over his role in Operation Gukurahundi – 40 years on.
King Lobengula holds Mbuya Nehanda in the mural.
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The unity between Zimbabwe’s two main ethnic groups is so fragile that even an inspirational street mural can expose it.
Robert Mugabe, former President of Zimbabwe, addressing media in Harare, in July 2018.
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Robert Mugabe’s years of playing one group off against the other to favour himself finally wore too thin in 2017.
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Only psychologists could discern how Dumiso Dabengwa maintained his legendary composure, a necessary trait for an intelligence supremo.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s clampdown on dissent in Matabeleland claimed up to 20 000 lives.
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The effects of President Mugabe’s post-independence security clampdown that led to the murder of between 10 000 and 20 000 Zimbabweans, known as the Matabeleland massacre, continue to be felt.