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Mugabe is refused accommodation by 2 SA hotels

Published 16 March 2011Updated 30 September 2019
This Day in History: 25 April 2004
The Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, who arrived in Pretoria for the 10th anniversary of a free South Africa and the inauguration of President Thabo Mbeki, was housed in a guesthouse after two 5-star hotels refused to accommodate him because of human rights abuses in his country. Zimbabwean ambassador in South Africa, Simon Moyo, glossed it over by saying that Mugabe stayed at a guest house out of choice.  

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