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Mutsvangwa's presidential ambitions under scrutiny
Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa's recent attack on Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga has sparked speculation that he harbors presidential ambitions and is attempting to weaken a key riva...Published: 31 Mar 2025 at 15:18hrs | 3795 | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda likens opposition to the devil
CONTROVERSIAL Zanu-PF Bulawayo provincial chairperson Jabulani Sibanda has sensationally claimed the ruling party represents God, urging aspiring parliamentarians to secure seats in the upcoming polls...Published: 19 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who actually overthrew Mugabe?
HISTORY is crucial for every nation. To know its future, a nation must know its past. I will briefly interrogate the coup that unseated the late former President Robert Mugabe. In 2017, Zimbab...Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 20:01hrs | | by Nkwazi Mhango
WATCH: Jabulani Sibanda rejoins Zanu-PF
FORMER war veterans chairperson Jabulani Sibanda, known for having spearheaded a nationwide reign of terror to secure a Zanu-PF victory in the 2008 run-off and 2013 elections before being fired from t...Published: 25 Dec 2021 at 09:27hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Damnatio memoriae and Robert Gabriel Mugabe National Youth Day?
In the recent past few years, it had become a norm in February to see pomp and extravagance in Zimbabwe's state and independent media with preparations towards and celebrations on the birthday of "com...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 21:18hrs | 3 | by Brian Maregedze
Robert Mugabe a hero and a true patriot
Cde Robert Mugabe tendered his resignation as the president of Zimbabwe on the 21 st September 2017. This came about after a bloodless army intervention. The man who became a hero and fought many stro...Published: 21 Feb 2019 at 09:35hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Robert Sigauke remembers Robert Mugabe ouster: A year on
The streets of Harare reminisced the scenes of independence celebrations close to four decades ago. While the incidence of tribal, character and colour differentiation cannot be undone, it is the real...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 12:07hrs | | by Robert Sigauke
Readmission of expelled cadres revitalises Zanu-PF
"If you want to find me guilty of not attending the First Lady's rallies, I plead guilty on that one and I won't attend unless the programme changes. I can't attend a function where they say 'Pamberi ...Published: 12 Oct 2018 at 06:55hrs | 1 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
Matemadanda, Mutsvangwa dangerous cowards
Former MDC Bulilima East legislator Norman Mpofu has described war veterans leader Victor Matemadanda and Chris Mutsvangwa as dangerous cowards who betrayed Jabulani Sibanda when he pointed that Rober...Published: 25 Aug 2018 at 06:49hrs | 1 | by Stephen Jakes
Chiwenga represents the 'New Disorder' not New Dispensation
While the nation awaits eagerly in anticipation of a typical Chief Justice Maraga (Kenya's Chief Justice) style and caliber of overturning presidential election results from our apex court on Tuesday,...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Knowledge Hakata
Zimbabwe judges, generals and post-coup dynamics
Soon after the toppling of former president Robert Mugabe in November last year in a coup and the ascendancy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, High Court judge Charles Hungwe immediately ruled that the...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 14:50hrs | | by Andrew Kunambura
Zanu-PF Youth league wants Jabulani Sibanda back
THE Zanu-PF Youth League here has described former war veterans leader Mr Jabulani Sibanda as a visionary who should be readmitted by the party.Mr Sibanda was expelled from Zanu-PF in 2014 on ...Published: 25 May 2018 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa fighting attempts to unseat him as war vets leader
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's advisor Chris Mutsvangwa is fighting attempts to unseat him as leader of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA by opponents emboldened by ruc...Published: 11 May 2018 at 13:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Robert Mugabe a 'helpless' victim of domestic abuse
daiyShocking claims have emerged that although ousted former president Robert Mugabe was a much-feared leader both at home and abroad, even in his dotage, he was allegedly a "helpless" vic...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 18:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, allies send desperate distress calls
Allies of former president Robert Mugabe have sent desperate distress calls to both sitting and former heads of state on the continent, on fears that the government may arrest the nonagenarian and his...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 11:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, allies hit panic button
Allies of former president Robert Mugabe have sent desperate distress calls to both sitting and former heads of state on the continent, on fears that the government may arrest the nonagenarian and his...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 07:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe slammed
Legal and political experts have slammed former President Robert Mugabe, saying his utterance before foreign journalists at his house in Harare on Thursday suggesting a coup were illogical, as the 94 ...Published: 17 Mar 2018 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
War vets push for Jabulani Sibanda re-admission
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWA) is pushing for re-admission of its deposed former chairman, Mr Jabulani Sibanda, into Zanu-PF without conditions.Mr Sibanda wa...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 05:48hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mujuru, G40 coalition sign of desperation'
ON Sunday morning, Zimbabweans woke up to fake news of a developing electoral pact between Dr Joice Mujuru's National People's Party and former First Lady Mrs Grace Mugabe.It was reported by o...Published: 06 Feb 2018 at 05:18hrs | 2 | by Nduduzo Tshuma
How Grace crushed Robert Mugabe
HARARE - History will record that it was a previously under-estimated woman, Grace "Dr Stop It" Mugabe, who succeeded in spectacular fashion to achieve what hardened male gladiators who include opposi...Published: 31 Dec 2017 at 20:53hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Tremor that dethroned Grace Mugabe
WHEN former first lady Grace Mugabe boasted at a rally in Kadoma in July 2015 that vice-presidents take notes each time they meet her, she demonstrated how much power she had acquired courtesy of bein...Published: 23 Dec 2017 at 09:14hrs | 1 | by Hazel Ndebele
Mugabe's shadow stalks new dispensation
HARARE - The fall of long-serving former president Robert Mugabe temporarily united Zimbabweans from all walks of life but weeks after the dust has settled, it's back to daggers being drawn between th...Published: 21 Dec 2017 at 16:17hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Grace Mugabe was in charge of Zimbabwe
war veterans leader Chris Mutsvangwa has reportedly said that the millitary's intervention, which resulted in former president Robert Mugabe relinquishing power two weeks ago was a "counter coup" to f...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military stopped Grace Mugabe's bedroom coup, says Mutsvangwa
OUTSPOKEN war veterans national chair Christopher Mutsvangwa says the alleged military intervention which forced then President Robert Mugabe to abandon his job in the last two weeks was a "counter co...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War veterans' love-hate affair with Mugabe and his endgame
Last Friday's resign or else ultimatum to President Robert Mugabe - who eventually resigned on Tuesday - by the battle-hardened veterans of Zimbabwe's protracted, widespread and bitter struggle for li...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 08:41hrs | 11 | by Gwinyai A Dzinesa, Political analyst
Grace Mugabe did not taint Robert's legacy.
CDE Robert Mugabe tendered his resignation as the president of Zimbabwe on the 21 st September 2017. This came about after a bloodless army intervention. The man who became a hero and fought man...Published: 23 Nov 2017 at 09:24hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Zanu PF Masvingo says Mugabe and his wife Grace have failed, they must go
The Zanu PF Masvingo Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) have passed a vote of no confidence on the under siege President Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace saying the duo has failed in their mandat...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 15:26hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The creation of a new Zanu-PF
The Zanu-PF party, initially formed as Zanu on August 8 1963 when the likes of Ndabaningi Sithole, Henry Hamadziripi, Mukudzei Midzi, Herbert Chitepo, Edgar Tekere and Leopold Takawira decided to spli...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 09:58hrs | 1 | by Conelia Mabasa
Mugabe survived the 2008 defeat by Tsvangirai through army rigging - ZCP
Zimbabwe Communist Party secretary general Ngqabutho Nicholas Mabhena has said President Robert Mugabe in 2008 retained power through the backing and rigging of the polls by the army generals depsite ...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 05:14hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
War vets working with Jabulani Sibanda
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) deputy chairperson Francis Nhando has said that they have started working with Jabulani Sibanda, who was deposed and arrested for cla...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:29hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War veterans apologise to Jabulani Sibanda
THE Chris Mutsvangwa-led executive of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) says it has made peace with former chairperson, Jabulani Sibanda, having vilified him for clai...Published: 26 Oct 2017 at 06:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe boasts he will live to be 100
Robert Mugabe is 93 and boasts he will live to be 100, but the jostling has begun to find a new leader for Zimbabwe when his tumultuous reign finally ends.At the ripe old age of 93, Robert Mug...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 16:09hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
What happens after Mugabe?
At the ripe old age of 93, Zimbabwe's long-serving President, Robert Mugabe, has offered himself as the candidate to lead his ruling Zanu-PF party in elections next year.In power since indepen...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 18:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
It is not a bedroom affair, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, the situation on the ground has forced me to make changes to my Cabinet as a matter of urgency. I could not wait to make these changes when I assume...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 16:21hrs | 2 | by CZ
Defining moment for Mnangagwa
In an intriguing turn to the factional wars ravaging Zanu-PF, President Robert Mugabe now faces re-election at a special congress to be convened by the party in December at which new faces could emerg...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 17:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa at crossroads
The continued onslaught on Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) could drive the 74 year-old politician to a point where he might have to make difficult choices if it is indeed true that he har...Published: 12 Sep 2017 at 08:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Expel Tshinga Dube, says Zanu-PF youth leader
OUTSPOKEN Zanu PF Manicaland provincial youth leader Mubuso Chinguno has made a fresh call for the expulsion of War Veterans minister Tshinga Dube, accusing him of wining and dining with expelled part...Published: 12 Sep 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Jabulani Sibanda removed from remand
FORMER war veterans chairman, Jabulani Sibanda has been removed from remand by Harare magistrate, Ms Rumbidzayi Mugwagwa on the matter in which he was facing charges of insulting the President in 2015...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 19:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jabulani Sibanda's docket referred back to prosecution
THE trial of former war veterans' leader, Jabulani Sibanda, on allegations of insulting President Robert Mugabe was deferred again yesterday after his docket was referred back to the National Prosecut...Published: 01 Jun 2017 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
The Paradox of a President Grace Mugabe
As Zimbabwe's Opposition continues to be in disarray and President Mugabe is gradually forced out of power by old age, it looks more likely that Mugabe's successor will emerge from the Zanu PF success...Published: 25 Mar 2017 at 09:21hrs | 2 | by Darlington Nyambiya
'Jonathan Moyo wants to be President'
Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo - one of the fiercest critics of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa - is being groomed by the Generation 40 (G40) faction to become the next Zanu-PF leader, ...Published: 14 Mar 2017 at 20:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Bedroom Coup': Madame Mugabe an 'acceptable' successor?
Before Jabulani Sibanda screamed, "bedroom coup!", Cde Paul Siwela had already predicted and warned Matabeles to prepare for the looming and inevitable Grace Mugabe take over which at the time, was be...Published: 01 Mar 2017 at 14:18hrs | 1 | by Israel Dube
Mugabe's genocide victory ceremony
Mugabe's birthday celebration near Bhalagwe disused mine is a genocide victory ceremony and endorsement of Gukurandi massacre of the Ndebele people.Forensic psychology states that a serial kil...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 12:48hrs | 2 | by Themba Mthethwa
Jabulani Sibanda's bedroom coup case postponed
Jabulani Sibanda, ex-Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association chairman will have his day in court in May for allegedly insulting President Robert Mugabe.The controversial politici...Published: 01 Feb 2017 at 03:37hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe bedroom coup jibe, former war vets boss further remanded
A Harare Court yesterday ordered ex-war veterans leader Jabulani Sibanda charged with undermining the authority of President Robert Mugabe, to return to court on January 31.Sibanda, the im...Published: 01 Dec 2016 at 10:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa, good you know war veterans will not get $500k, pity that is all you know!
When I read the article "War Vets $500,000 demands false, malicious, says Mutsvangwa" in Bulawayo24 and Khuluma Afrika I cheered, laughed and cried, not for joy but rather in disappointment and despai...Published: 17 Nov 2016 at 06:33hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
ZANU PF supporters poisoned
ZANU PF officials and supporters have been poisoned by the culture of political correctness that has curtailed the independent thinking of its members. The party of Robert Mugabe has turned Zimbab...Published: 16 Sep 2016 at 21:56hrs | 1 | by Themba Mthethwa
The fate of Vice President Mnangagwa
"Pasi nemhandu, pasi nemhandu pasi nemhandu, pasi nemhandu....!!" (translated as Down with the enemy) gleefully chanted Vice President E.D Mnangagwa soon after his "appointment" as the Vice President ...Published: 29 Jul 2016 at 07:27hrs | 2 | by Wilton Nyasha Machimbira
Zanu PF inciting people- PDP
People's Democratic Party spokesperson Jacob Mafume has said the ruling Zanu PF must look no further than itself for what is about to happen as surely as the sun rises from the east and sets in the we...Published: 05 Jul 2016 at 05:53hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
The power behind Mutsvangwa
Former War Veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa's political obituary had been written well before the Zanu-PF politburo suspended him for three years last month on charges of insulting President R...Published: 03 Apr 2016 at 12:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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