Nando’s has choked on the bone of a new advertisement for a six-piece chicken combo after it generated a windfall of negative attention in Zimbabwe from supporters of Robert Mugabe. The fun, zesty ad sends up Mugabe and other ruthless dictators, arming them with water pistols, microphones and a swing.
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I’ve just backed the dictator
Now I know the odds are against him. But 6/1 ($7.0) about Colonel Gaddafi still being in charge of at least part of Libya at the end of the year just seemed to good to me to resist, writes betting man Richard Farmer.
Violence, coercion not the only threats to Zimbabwe’s elections
Mugabe’s regime had already brought Zimbabwe to its knees, but it had now lost any political credibility as well, writes Rafiq Copeland, from northern Africa.
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PHOTO GALLERY: Foreign dictator fashionistas
One of the greatest photo galleries we’ve seen in a while, wrapping up the fashion choices of the world’s most brutal leaders, from Kim Jong Il’s love of taupe safari suits to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s chic minimalistic suits.
Zimbabwe’s diamonds: bloody as ever
Despite international outrage over deaths in Zimbabwe’s lucrative diamond trade in 2008, very little has changed: The Sunday Times has uncovered a smuggling ring that goes all the way to the top of the Mugabe government — with Chinese, Israeli and South African backing.
What do the world’s most evil men listen to on their iPods?
Even evil dictators like to get funky sometimes. Believe it or not, Osama bin Laden likes the B-52s and Whitney Houston, Kim Jong-il rocks out to Eric Clapton and Muammar Gaddafi prefers the smooth crooning of Lionel Ritchie.
Nestlé suckles from the teat of Mugabe’s dirty dairy
Robert Mugabe has built a secret farming empire with land seized from white farmers. Their biggest customer? Swiss food giant Nestlé, which has been lapping up 1 million litres of Mugabe’s milk a year.
Power to the people: forgive the tyrants
Forgiveness of a dictator and ensuring an end to their actions is more crucial than prosecuting them for war crimes, writes Sholto Byrnes. Refusing to seek vengeance shows victims “to be better than their oppressors”.
Uneasy truce in Zimbabwe continues
How is Zimbabwe’s marriage of convenience between Morgan Tsvangirai and Robert Mugabe going? “We agree to differ” admits Tsvangirai, who says Mugabe will not change and laughs off critics who call him a tyrant.
Zimbabwe: two steps forward, one step back
Six months since Zimbabwe’s power sharing deal, times are still shaky in Harare. “The hope that…[Robert Mugabe] will go quietly appears wishful thinking”, writes David Smith.
Mugabe’s daughter in Hong Kong press freedom row
The daughter of Robert Mugabe, Bona Mugabe, has found herself in the middle of a row over press freedom after her bodyguards were spared prosecution for assaulting two news photographers outside her home in Hong Kong.
The sad state of African despotry
They just don’t make kleptocrats the way they used to, laments Kelly McParland.
Essay: Zimbabwe’s prisons are death traps
Zimbabwe's prisoners are suffering untold horrors in Zimbabwe's jails, writes the Sokwanele newletter from Harare.
Crisis in Zimbabwe: a Crikey wrap
As President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe continues to collapse, we take a look at what the world is saying inside and outside of Africa.
Crikey Clarifier: Politics in the Congo
What exactly is going on in the Congo? Dr David Dorward explains in the first installment of an exciting new Crikey series.
Doing the G8 wrap
We’re not sure what a Chaud-froid is, but we do know that the G8 climate change agreement has been met with pretty underwhelmed sighs, writes Sophie Black and Jane Nethercote.
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
What can Crikey readers do to help Zimbabwe?
Crikey Says: Crikey Says
As everyone dithers over Zimbabwe, an email doing the rounds amongst Harare residents shows just how bad the crisis has become.
Zimbabwe gets Mugabe for another five years
After a sham election, Zimbabwe awakes this morning with Robert Mugabe freshly sworn in for another five years as president. By Thomas Hunter.
Notes on life in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, part 3: Election day
Election day has arrived and with feelings of confusion and dream among average Zimbabweans, writes blogger Bev Clark.
Notes on life in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, part 2
Ahead of tomorrow’s one-candidate presidential run-off election in Zimbabwe, blogger Bev Clark describes the not-so-simple act of buying food while Mugabe remains in power.
Notes on life in Mugabe’s Zimbabwe, part 1
Zimbabwen blogger Bev Clarke tells Crikey of her experience of Mugabe’s violence.
World agrees Zimbabwe needs help, but how?
Two acts of self-defense from Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai seem to have sparked action, or talk of it, from the global community, writes Thomas Hunter.
Tsvangirai’s cop-out a defeat for democracy
Freedom from tyranny has never been an easy or bloodless path, writes Zimbabwean blogger James Hall.
Fixing politics: Business-as-usual on petrol makes us all losers
The Greens may not be the future of mainstream politics in Australia, but they’ve joined the dots on energy better than any of the competition, argues Bernard Keane.
