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Deutsche Welle
March 29, 2018
Key Zimbabwean politician Roy Bennett killed in US helicopter crash 19.01.2018. Zimbabwe's opposition leader Roy Bennett was killed when a helicopter he was traveling on crashed in the US state of New Mexico. Bennett has been harshly criticized by Robert Mugabe due to his white farmer background.
ESPN
March 22, 2018
"I will not watch an international cricket game in Zimbabwe when there is so much suffering, and I love the game," Roy Bennett, a white MDC MP, told the paper. "How can the British come here? It is an appalling betrayal." His sentiments were echoed by Arnold Tsunga, the director of Lawyers for Human Rights, who added:Ãâà...
AllAfrica.com
March 16, 2018
The Supreme Court has referred back to trial the case in which former Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana and former Zimbabwe Republic Police ... senior partner at Gill, Godlonton and Gerrans, was a key witness in the trial of the late former MDC-T treasurer Roy Bennett for terrorism nine years ago.
The Zimbabwe Standard
February 25, 2018
He concluded that “the current political and economic problems facing Zimbabwe (were) due to the fact that the country (was) being ruled by a hopelessly clueless, tired and terrified undemocratic clique ... On my way back from Malawi on January 5 2005, I stopped in at Mutoko prison to see Roy Bennett.
KOAT Albuquerque
February 16, 2018
The pilots, Paul Cobb and J.C. Dodd, had been flying for Burnett for years. Roy and Heather Bennett died in the crash. Roy Bennett was a member of Zimbabwe's opposition party. Everyone died except Paul's daughter Cobb, who was also Roy Bennett's girlfriend. Survivor recounts horrific details of deadlyÃâà...
Seattle Times
February 13, 2018
FILE–This Jan. 19, 2018, file image taken from video shows an investigator photographing the scene near Raton, N.M., where a helicopter crashed. The lone survivor of a New Mexico helicopter crash last month that killed five people, including key Zimbabwean opposition leader Roy Bennett, recalls thatÃâà...
NewsDay
February 12, 2018
Speaker after speaker gave touching testimonies at the memorial on Saturday. Advocate Arnold Tsunga, who represented Bennett during his tenure as opposition MDC-T legislator, said the deceased couple was humble. “Roy Bennett was a coffee farmer in Chimanimani. I started to know him around 2000,Ãâà...
Deutsche Welle
February 9, 2018
Nelly Kanonge remembers when Zimbabwe was known as the breadbasket of Africa. When she was growing up there in the early 1990s, the economy was thriving and farmland was fertile. But prosperity didn't last. Millions fled, with most ending up in South Africa. Kanonge has been living in Johannesburg for almost aÃâà...
Daily Maverick
February 6, 2018
Unpolished, volatile and polarising, Roy Bennett was no Mother Teresa – and never pretended to be – but his wife, Heather, could have been. Together, they were a formidable team that left an indelible mark on Zimbabwe's politics and on those who knew them. STUART DORAN remembers them afterÃâà...
News24
January 30, 2018
Cape Town – Zimbabwean opposition leader Roy Bennett and his wife Heather, who were killed in a helicopter crash two weeks ago in the United States are ... According to New Zimbabwe.com, the late politician's sister, Cynthia Bennett, said the couple's daughter was currently in the US to arrange for herÃâà...
AllAfrica.com
January 29, 2018
Friends and relatives of the late former MDC-T treasurer general Roy Bennett and his wife will not be able to view the couple's bodies after close family members said the two were set to be cremated before their remains are flown back home. The former Chimanimani legislator and his wife, Heather diedÃâà...
The Times
January 22, 2018
Had Roy Bennett and his wife, Heather, died in a helicopter crash in Zimbabwe, rather than in New Mexico, then that country's Zanu-PF regime might well have been suspected of orchestrating the “accident” in its customary style. Robert Mugabe and his henchman who is now his successor, EmmersonÃâà...
BBC News
January 18, 2018
Prominent Zimbabwean politician Roy Bennett has been killed with his wife in a helicopter crash in North America. The couple died along with three others when the aircraft crashed on Wednesday in a mountainous area in the US state of New Mexico. One person survived. Mr Bennett, 60, was a formerÃâà...
New York Times
January 18, 2018
HARARE, Zimbabwe — Roy Bennett, a Zimbabwean coffee grower whose farm was seized in a land redistribution program, and who emerged as a formidable leader of the main party opposed to President Robert G. Mugabe, died on Wednesday evening in a helicopter crash in New Mexico. He was 60.
The Zimbabwean
November 29, 2017
Those Zimbabweans who have used their role in the fight for independence to impose the de facto one-party state we are groaning under today betrayed the people and the revolution. We fought, all of us contributed in one way or another some more than others, for a free, just and prosperous Zimbabwe.
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