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Trucks, triads and subs

Few believe the official explanation that 87-year-old President Robert Mugabe’s frequent visits to Singapore are to monitor his February cataract operation or that he is being the doting husband to his injured wife, Grace. Equally few believe that the simultaneous visit by Defence Forces chief General Constantine Chiwengwa to Beijing was purely for an emergency medical check-up of ‘the sort we all periodically undergo’, in the words of Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa....

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