Mugabe faces revolt from police and RC church

It was a cloak-and-dagger meeting. The senior officer in Robert Mugabe’s police force did not try to hide his nervousness as he spoke. He would be killed if he was identified in any way, he told The Times. Martin Fletcher has spent the past week travelling secretly around Zimbabwe, where he found a nation riven by economic and social breakdown, and where he heard more and more calls for a popular uprising. Read more