Columnist / Itai mushekwe
'Mnangagwa given deadline to vacate office as Zimbabwe President'
LONDON - President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reportedly on the verge of becoming the shortest serving leader in the country's history, amid confirmed reports that the die-hard politician has been given a...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 08:45hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Zimbabwe Army to declare martial law to crush Mnangagwa and MDC protests
The country's military is reportedly preparing to declare martial law in the event of planned opposition protests becoming violent insurrections and grinding the nation to a halt, Spotlight Zimbabwe, ...Published: 09 Aug 2019 at 08:47hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
China wants military chiefs to head new interim Zimbabwe government
BERLIN/PRETORIA - China reportedly wants the country's military chiefs to run and head a new interim Zimbabwe government between 2020-2023 when fresh presidential and parliamentary elections are...Published: 26 Jul 2019 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
China to help remove Mnangagwa over Zimbabwe diamonds war with Russia
This article first appeared on Spotlight Zimbabwe. LONDON - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential exit is all but sealed amid reports that China ...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 09:02hrs | 12 | by Itai Mushekwe
Mnangagwa developing algorithmic surveillance system to spy on Zimbabweans
In a bid to attain political omnipresence and omniscience against unsuspecting citizens, the Zimbabwe government is reportedly working on a sophisticated algorithmic super surveillance system, said to...Published: 28 Jun 2019 at 08:37hrs | 4 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Chiwenga and Mnangagwa's fight reaches boiling point
The country's presidency is now reportedly paraplegic thus causing tectonic divisions in government, amid disclosures that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his second in charge, Vice President, Rtd Ge...Published: 24 Jun 2019 at 12:34hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Chiwenga's health woes linked to Zanu PF's thickening internal assassination plots over Mnangagwa's successor
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga's perennial health problems are reportedly linked to the ruling Zanu PF's thickening internal assassination and counter-assassination plots among it's ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:07hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari
Chiwenga, Zimbabwe army to boot out Mnangagwa through 'operation restore economy'
COLOGNE/HARARE– Combative Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, and a hardline military faction backing his political doctrine and ambitions, are reportedly on the verge of booting Presi...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:51hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Mnangagwa to tender resignation as Zimbabwe leader to avoid humiliating exit
COLOGNE/HARARE– President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly due to tender his resignation as the country’s leader in less than twelve months, to avoid a humiliating exit, after failing to resolve Z...Published: 14 May 2019 at 06:55hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-kate Kahari
China dumps Mnangagwa
Munich/Harare - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidency is about to come to a crashing halt, amid reports that China has dropped him as their political point man in Zimbabwe, Spotlight Zimbabwe has ...Published: 03 May 2019 at 06:54hrs | 12 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Chiwenga becomes de facto Zimbabwe President
New York - Militaristic vice president, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is now the country's de facto head of state, amid reports that President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has reportedly been stripped off ...Published: 26 Apr 2019 at 06:30hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya
Mnangagwa scared of death via political foul play
HAMBURG– President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reportedly increasingly becoming afraid of losing his life to potential political foul play as his ruling Zanu-PF internal power battles by his rivals to ou...Published: 20 Apr 2019 at 08:25hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Zimbabwe Army Generals read riot act to Mnangagwa, as he privately offers to resign as President
The game is all but over for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's young presidency, as hardline army generals are reportedly said to have read the riot act to him, over a sheaf of serious issues caused by h...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Malvin Motsi
Chiwenga agrees to station China's Special Forces in Zimbabwe?
China is reportedly planning to station an elite special force from it's red army in Zimbabwe, as Beijing moves to crystalize military cooperation with Harare, amid growing fears that the Asian powerh...Published: 05 Apr 2019 at 09:02hrs | 3 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
UN to send multinational force to intervene in Zimbabwe?
COLOGNE/HARARE, PRETORIA - The United Nations Security Council is likely to approve the intervention of a multinational force to Zimbabwe, to disarm and disable President Emmerson Mnangagwa's bloodthi...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 08:06hrs | 3 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Putin moots military base in Zimbabwe…….as Mnangagwa begs for Moscow bailout package
COLOGNE/VANCOUVER/HARARE - Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has reportedly set his eyes on opening a Russian strategic military base in Zimbabwe, as Moscow ratchets up her new foreign policy in Afri...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 06:29hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari
China printing new Zimbabwe currency in exchange for oil and diamonds
COLOGNE - China has intensified it's grip, control and access to Zimbabwe's mineral wealth by reportedly demanding diamonds and oil drilling rights from President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government, as p...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 07:48hrs | 17 | by Itai Mushekwe
Chiwenga wants to be Zimbabwe president before 2023
Combative Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is reportedly on his way to become president of the country and first secretary of the ruling Zanu-PF party before the next election slated ...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 09:15hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Chiwenga to be Zimbabwe president before 2023 heartbeat away
COLOGNE - Combative Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, is reportedly on his way to become president of the country and first secretary of the ruling Zanu PF party before the next electi...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 07:11hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Mnangagwa faces Mugabe-style coup - Report
COLOGNE/HARARE - President Emmerson Mnangagwa is increasingly behind the eight ball, amid disclosures that his presidency could be on the line, as the opposition and his closet internal ruling party f...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 07:53hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
'Army warns Mnangagwa' - Exclusive Report
COLOGNE – Hardline securocrats have reportedly warned President Emmerson Mnangagwa to urgently put the country's economic house in order, as they fear a possible popular uprising over his admini...Published: 17 Oct 2018 at 05:16hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Chiwenga advised to sieze total Zimbabwe power
No nonsense vice president, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, might be forced to sieze total Zimbabwe power at all costs amid reported growing suspicion by his personal military advisor and confidant,...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe/ Mary-Kate Kahari
China places strategic ground to air missiles in Zimbabwe
COLOGNE - In what all but amounts to turning Harare into a satellite outpost of Beijing, China has reportedly deployed and installed a dreaded new generation of surface-to- air missiles (SAM) in Zimba...Published: 29 Aug 2018 at 06:52hrs | 64 | by Itai Mushekwe
Mnangagwa To Declare State Of Emergency
COLOGNE/VANCOUVER/HARARE/CAPE TOWN – In a bid and pretext to curb terrorist activities, political violence and civil disorder ahead of this July's historic presidential and parliamentary elections, ...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 09:10hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari/Malvin Motsi
Mnangagwa grooming Kasukuwere as Zanu PF And Presidential Successor
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reportedly grooming former Mugabe cabinet minister and ousted Zanu PF political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, to be his preferred ruling party successor and possible ...Published: 15 Jun 2018 at 07:21hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
'Military might decree Mnangagwa's victory in upcoming presidential election'
COLOGNE/VANCOUVER - Hardline military securocrats aligned to the ruling Zanu PF party, may reportedly ignore any presidential election outcome that disfavours incumbent caretaker, President Emmerson M...Published: 18 May 2018 at 06:55hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya
Mengistu now Chiwenga's special VP advisor
COLOGNE- Exiled and fallen Ethiopian autarch, Mengistu Haile Mariam, who is thought to have had an invisible hand in last November's Operation Restore Legacy, which was launched by the military to ous...Published: 27 Apr 2018 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe
Chiwenga passed on Zimbabwe presidency to Mnangagwa
COLOGNE - First Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga, all but practised political comradeship by refusing to backstab President Emmerson Mnangagwa, for the country's presidency, after bein...Published: 20 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe, Spotlight Zimbabwe
China, Russia and Iran helping Zimbabwe to set-up own NSA
COLOGNE - Zimbabwe is reportedly on the brink of setting up a powerful multi-million dollar sophisticated surveillance system facility, said to be similar in function to the National Security Agency (...Published: 23 Mar 2018 at 07:13hrs | 21 | by Itai Mushekwe
EXCLUSIVE: Mugabe ceded power to Mnangagwa in 2008, but reneged on deal in 2013
COLOGNE– President Emmerson Mnangagwa could have been sworn into office, as early as December 2014, after former leader, Robert Mugabe, had reportedly struck an informal gentlemen’s agreement to h...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 07:32hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Tsvangirai FOREVER
"If I have seen further, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants," so goes the famous moving words by Sir Isaac Newton, an English physicist and mathematician. The quote is from a letter writte...Published: 20 Feb 2018 at 06:59hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe
Land Reform And Indigenisation Blunder To Cost Mnangagwa State House
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, risks having his presidency short-lived and turned to just but a flash in the pan, due to political errors on his new land reform and black empowerment policy stance, a c...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 07:15hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe, Nancy Mabaya, Malvin Motsi and Mary-Kate Kahari
Mnangagwa is a clone of Mugabe - US Diplomat
COLOGNE - In what could explain America's unchanged foreign policy on Zimbabwe, a prolific U.S diplomat now based and working in Washington, has dscribed the country's new leader, President Emmerson M...Published: 16 Jan 2018 at 07:43hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe
Simon Khaya-Moyo to become 2nd Vice President of Zimbabwe - report
Father Zimbabwe, the late Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo's former aide and, now ruling Zanu PF's information and publicity secretary, Simon Khaya-Moyo, is reportedly poised to become one of the two vice pres...Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 06:59hrs | 10 | by Itai Mushekwe
EXCLUSIVE: Mugabe to step down before 2018 elections
President Robert Mugabe, is reportedly planning to announce his shock departure from power before the watershed 2018 presidential and parliamentary elections, as the ruling Zanu PF strongman is now be...Published: 27 Oct 2017 at 06:22hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe, Nancy Mabaya, Mary-Kate Kahari and Malvin Motsi
Zimbabwe military agrees to Mnangagwa Presidential takeover
COLOGNE - The top brass of Zimbabwe's security services, have reportedly agreed to back political artful dodger, Vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, as the second republic president of the land, to re...Published: 15 Sep 2017 at 07:46hrs | 15 | by Itai Mushekwe
President Mugabe to name Grace Successor
In a shocking development to President Robert Mugabe's succession political plate tectonics, the veteran nonagenarian is reportedly set to name his wife, First lady Grace, as his successor some time n...Published: 25 Aug 2017 at 05:46hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Mnangagwa preparing for power, Chiwenga to deputise
Acting and soon to be President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is now preparing for State power and to immediately usher in a quasi transitional government, to replace long serving President Robert Mugabe, and ...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 10:54hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari/ Malvin Motsi
Hillary Clinton coming to Zimbabwe?
Former U.S. Secretary of State, and First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, is reportedly coming to Zimbabwe next year, as an invited "special guest" to mark the inauguration of MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvang...Published: 17 Jun 2017 at 22:48hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya
Mnangagwa to be Zimbabwe President until 21 August 2018
COLOGNE - Vice President, Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, is set to be in office as the second republic President of Zimbabwe, officially until 21 August 2018, should he takeover from President Robert Mu...Published: 19 May 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
VP Mnangagwa to militarise Zimbabwe minerals
Vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reportedly mooting to have the country's fabulous mineral wealth militarised, under the guise of so called command mining, high level government sources and offi...Published: 12 May 2017 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari/Malvin Motsi
Mugabe to be forced out of office
President Robert Mugabe's days in office are reportedly numbered, as an alleged secret confederacy inside and outside government wants him gone as soon as possible, before year end, while giving their...Published: 21 Apr 2017 at 07:08hrs | 5 | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Mugabe to step down for Grace
President Robert Mugabe is all but plotting to hand over power to his truculent wife, Grace, should he contest and win the 2018 watershed elections, Spotlight Zimbabwe reported.According to a ...Published: 07 Apr 2017 at 08:49hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
Evan Mawarire to run for Zimbabwe President online
COLOGNE/WINDHOEK - Pastor Evan Mawarire, the founder of #ThisFlag movement, is reportedly going to launch a run for the country's 2018 presidency very soon, using a combative combination of social med...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 07:56hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Mugabe officially picks Gono for President
COLOGNE/CAPE TOWN - President Robert Mugabe has reportedly cherry-picked, former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) governor, Gideon Gono, for president and to become his successor of choice in an afterma...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 07:25hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahari
Putin secures cocktail of Zimbabwe minerals, in return for Harare's security
COLOGNE - Russian President, Vladimir Putin, has reportedly scored a silent success by managing to secretly secure for Moscow a cross-section of Zimbabwe's rich...Published: 14 Feb 2017 at 07:45hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
VP Mnangagwa enticed to cancel 2018 elections
COLOGNE/CAPE TOWN - Aggrieved opposition political foes and forces against MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai, and Zim PF boss, Joice Mujuru's grand coalition pact ...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 06:49hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe/Mary-Kate Kahara
Mnangagwa preparing to take over from Mugabe
Acting and soon to be President, Emmerson Mnangagwa, is now preparing for State power and to immediately usher in a quasi transitional government, to replace long serving President Robert Mugabe, and ...Published: 26 Dec 2016 at 08:18hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe, Nancy Mabaya, Mary-Kate Kahari and Malvin Motsi
Mujuru, Tsvangirai clash over land reform and Indeginisation
Former vice president, Joice Mujuru and ex- premier Morgan Tsvangirai's planned political coalition, against President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu PF in the 2018 presidential ballot, is taking a delay...Published: 16 Dec 2016 at 06:26hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe, Nancy Mabaya, Malvin Motsi
'General Chiwenga to get special VP powers'
COLOGNE - Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander, General Constantino Guveya Chiwenga, is set to be granted special powers when he assumes the office of Vice President of Zimbabwe any day from now, t...Published: 09 Dec 2016 at 05:38hrs | | by Itai Mushekwe
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