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AUSTRALIA

Zimbabwe youth survive jungle of doubt
- Peter Hodge
- 03 September 2008
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Zimbabwean names often reflect the mood of a family to the arrival of the new member. At a rural mission school I taught Blessing, Charity and Unique Faith. Penniless Ngwenya was the best and brightest of my students.
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AUSTRALIA

'Stalinist' Mugabe won't go without a fight
- Peter Roebuck
- 03 September 2008
Sensing humiliation and still uttering vapid rhetoric about 'insidious foreign hands', Mugabe has lowered himself to talking to his opponents. The old rogue is not going anywhere except in a box or at the end of a gun.
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AUSTRALIA

Genesis of a tyrant
- Oskar Wermter
- 08 July 2008
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Robert Mugabe was a bright and ambitious boy, but angry, lonely and insecure. Nothing has changed. His greatest weakness is that he cannot accept criticism, responding with anger and aggression. The whole of Africa knows that now, to its cost.
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INTERNATIONAL

Restocking the global pantry
- James Ingram
- 04 July 2008
In his keynote message to the World Food Summit Pope Benedict XVI called for new strategies to promote food production. Feeding the world population in the coming decades is as big a challenge as climate change, and no less important.
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AUSTRALIA

Guilt edged leaders
- Gillian Bouras
- 01 July 2008
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'Iguanagate' pariahs Belinda Neal and John Della Bosca can hardly be compared with Bush, Blair and Howard, but they are arguably on the same continuum. Surely the notion that leadership and responsibility go together still has some meaning.
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AUSTRALIA

Zimbabwe needs the ballot, not the bullet
- Oskar Wermter
- 30 June 2008
4 Comments
Gangs of party youth rampage through working class Harare assaulting anyone suspected of voting against Robert Mugabe. When they kill, these youths — uneducated, frustrated, high on Mugabe's ideology of hatred — think they are defending Zimbabwe's sovereignty.
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AUSTRALIA

Pat Dodson chooses brand Mandela
- Michael Mullins
- 07 April 2008
1 Comment
Zimbabwe's struggle for freedom took a wrong turn when Robert Mugabe opted for a strategy of vindictiveness. Recently Australia's 'father of Reconciliation' Pat Dodson identified the secret of Nelson Mandela's success in building the nation of South Africa from the ruins of the apartheid regime: Love your enemy.
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AUSTRALIA

Zimbabwe result could open the airwaves
- Nigel Johnson
- 04 April 2008
4 Comments
Independent radio stations have been denied broadcast licences under the Mugabe regime. While some still don't trust the government to honour the election result, others believe a new beginning for free speech is imminent.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Xenia, the first safety net
- Jaya Savige
- 09 January 2008
How could they intuit the pricelessness of a warm welcome? / benign as Mugabe, market forces the not-so-new religion From 9 August 2007.
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AUSTRALIA

What to do about Mugabe
- Peter Roebuck
- 09 January 2008
Everyone must pray for Mugabe's death (though his mother reached three figures). At present the best response is to help those seeking justice and to assist those promoting education, thereby sustaining hope for a better tomorrow. From 2 April 2007.
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ARTS AND CULTURE

Chris Johnston cartoon archive
- Chris Johnston
- 12 September 2007
An archive of Chris Johnston's cartoons.
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AUSTRALIA

South Africa buys Mugabe's 'them and us' ruse
- Peter Roebuck
- 22 August 2007
8 Comments
South Africa is determined to resist calls to boycott its cricket tour of Zimbabwe. Mugabe's turning the slaughter and starvation over which he has so blithely presided into a " them and us" confrontation has paid dividends.
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