Blue Roof

Blue Roof is the common name given to a mansion and former presidential palace in the suburb of Borrowdale in Harare, Zimbabwe.

Robert Mugabe had been the Prime Minister and later President of Zimbabwe following its independence from the United Kingdom and reconstitution from the unrecognised Rhodesia.

Owners of properties surrounding the palace were sent letters saying they faced eviction from their homes due to them being within a security area.

[8] Access to foot and vehicular traffic would also be restricted similar to the measures Mugabe had put in around State House.

[5] Following the 2017 Zimbabwean coup d'état which removed Mugabe from office, he was placed under house arrest at Blue Roof by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces.