news bulletins – answers

Mugabe heckled

true/false

1. Mugabe is greeted with praise. F: he is ‘heckled’
2. He arrives like a state leader. T: (all the trappings and ceremony of power)
3. Zimbabwe is politically stable. F: it’s a ‘political minefield’
4. Parliament opened today. T
5. Mugabe’s party has overall power. F
6. Both sides are confident of a power sharing deal. F: it may not reach a satisfactory conclusion
7. President Mugabe’s speech was well received. F: it was ‘drowned out’ by heckling from the opposition
8. It is not Mugabe’s right to open Parliament. T
9. Negotiations for power sharing have stopped. T they have ‘stalled’
10. Mugabe has been on power for nearly 3 decades. T: 28 years