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Zimbabwe opposition figure Roy Bennett dies in U.S. helicopter crash

World News // 6 years ago

Zimbabwe opposition figure Roy Bennett dies in U.S. helicopter crash

Prominent Zimbabwean politician Roy Bennett, along with his wife and three others, were killed in a New Mexico helicopter crash.

World News // 1 decade ago

Zimbabwe opposition supporters say they were attacked

Members of Zimbabwe's opposition Movement for Democratic Change said they were attacked by supporters of newly re-elected President Robert Mugabe.

World News // 1 decade ago

Mugabe wins seventh term as president of Zimbabwe

More than 60 percent of Zimbabweans who voted this week cast their ballots to give President Robert Mugabe a seventh term, election officials said Saturday.

World News // 1 decade ago

Mugabe opponent acquitted

Zimbabwe politician Roy Bennett, a longtime opponent of President Robert Mugabe, was acquitted of charges including terrorism, Bennett's attorney said Monday.

World News // 1 decade ago

Zimbabwe's Bennett released from jail

Zimbabwe opposition politician Roy Bennett has been released from jail, his attorney says.

World News // 1 decade ago

Tsvangirai eyeing withdrawal over Mugabe

Zimbabwean Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai said Friday he may withdraw from the unity government due to concerns about President Robert Mugabe.

World News // 1 decade ago

Opposition head ordered jailed until trial

A Zimbabwean judge ordered a senior opposition politician to jail to await his trial, scheduled to begin next week, officials said.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Tsvangirai ally released from prison

The new deputy agriculture minister of Zimbabwe was freed Thursday after a long legal battle to win him bail.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Zimbabwean court orders pol's release

Zimbabwe's Supreme Court has ordered the release from prison of an opposition politician who was to serve as deputy agriculture minister.

Top News // 1 decade ago

Mugabe party said seeking amnesty

Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu-PF party reportedly is seeking an amnesty deal, an opposition leader's wife says.

Roy Leslie Bennett (born 16 February 1957) is a Zimbabwean politician and former colonial policeman who is also a former member of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe for the seat of Chimanimani, where he is affectionately known as Pachedu (loosely translated as "Between Us"). He is currently the Treasurer of the Movement for Democratic Change party led by Morgan Tsvangirai.

He was one of three white parliamentarians elected in the 2000 Parliamentary election, despite the constituency seeing intimidation against MDC voters by supporters of Zanu-PF. During the campaign his wife and family were physically attacked.

In 2004 Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa told Bennett in Parliament that Bennett's Charleswood Estate in Chimanimani would be taken by the government and resettled. Chinamasa then said:

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