Robert Mugabe
The dark heart of South Africa’s Expropriation Act
Cape Town How damaging will South Africa’s Expropriation Act be? The legislation, which allows the state to seize private property…
And still the colonial memoirs keep coming…
Peter Godwin’s third volume to date – of a family in various stages of decline after leaving their African homeland – is redeemed by its vivid evocations and erudition
The Old Horse and the braying donkey
NoViolet Bulawayo’s first novel We Need New Names,shortlisted for the Booker in 2013, was a charming, tender gem, suffused with…
Portrait of the week: The Speaker resigns, BA pilots strike and Mugabe dies
Home A bill sponsored by Hilary Benn and supported by Alistair Burt and other dissident Tories was passed — becoming…
I once worshipped ‘freedom fighters’ but Mugabe just looked like a teacher
At the top of Machu Picchu last week, I saw two wide-winged condors swoop over Sacred Valley through a rainbow…
When armies take over democracy dies
While the military is running Zimbabwe, there is no hope of anything resembling a functioning democracy replacing the tyrant Robert…
The Brexit Bill faces 470 amendments on its way through Parliament
Home As the European Union (Withdrawal) Bill faced 470 amendments in its examination by a committee of the whole House,…
Real democracy or a tribal bloodbath? Zimbabwe is on the brink
History will curse Robert Mugabe. When he took over as prime minister in the wake of the Lancaster House agreement…
The unlikely oilman
Former Spectator owner Algy Cluff on Margaret Thatcher, Robert Mugabe and Brexit
Notebook
This time last year I was running around excitedly telling all my friends that I had an African president in…
