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JZ Moyo remembered as a political and military strategist
The late Jason Ziyaphapha Moyo, former vice-president of the Zimbabwe African People's Union (Zapu) and a key figure in the liberation struggle, was remembered last week as a master strategist, both p...Published: 06 May 2025 at 08:55hrs | 571 | by Staff reporter
Cars firebombed outside Chivayo, Tagwirei's properties
A series of deliberate firebomb attacks rocked Harare's central business district overnight, targeting commercial properties linked to influential businessmen Wicknell Chivayo and Kudakwashe Tagwirei,...Published: 28 Mar 2025 at 11:40hrs | 3579 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala urges opposition to exploit Zanu-PF factional fights
Firebrand opposition politician and former MP Job Sikhala has called on opposition forces to take advantage of the growing tensions between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice President Constantino ...Published: 17 Feb 2025 at 10:59hrs | 973 | by Staff reporter
South African arrested over bomb threat at Zimbabwe airports
A 26-year-old South African national named Cuan Reed Govender has been apprehended at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport on suspicion of being the individual known as John Doe, who reportedly...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 21:11hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga trapped in crocodile jaws
In just six years, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, once a formidable figure and key player in the military coup that ousted former President Robert Mugabe, has seen a significant decline in his i...Published: 24 Sep 2023 at 18:50hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Corruption tarnishing Zimbabwe's image
ON April 18, 2023, Zimbabweans from all walks of life thronged different venues across the country to celebrate Independence Day.The day is a milestone in the history of the country as it acco...Published: 03 May 2023 at 06:07hrs | | by Cuthbert Mavheko
Mnangagwa ally vows 'worse than 2008' violence against opposition
Former state security minister and Zanu-PF top official, Owen Mudha Ncube has threatened opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his party with violence he vowed shall be worse than the bloodbath experie...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC to lobby Parly over shrinking democratic space
CITIZENS Coalition for Change (CCC) plans to lobby Parliament over government's alleged failure to restore the rule of law, claiming that the democratic space continues to shrink in the country ...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:06hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bomb attack mystery deepens
Four years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa survived an assassination attempt it has emerged that a former soldier, who was convicted by the military for the grenade attack, was in India on the day ...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
81% of wars between 1945 and 2001 were launched by the US
The Chinese Embassy in Russia has shared a list of US bombings and invasions since World War 2Chinese diplomats have published a list of US military adventures in recent decades, arguing that ...Published: 27 Feb 2022 at 08:07hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Army chopper horror crash details emerge
VILLAGERS in the Arcturus area in Ruwa where an Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) helicopter crashed on Friday say they watched helplessly as the plane exploded with people inside because they were afraid t...Published: 25 Apr 2021 at 07:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wife seeks release of passport to undergo treatment in SA
TROUBLED former supermodel and estranged Vice President Constantino Chiwenga's wife, Marry Mubaiwa has approached the High Court with an urgent chamber application seeking the release of her passport....Published: 04 Dec 2020 at 06:38hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Airlifted leather sofas trigger PR disaster as Mnangagwa meets Idai victims
President Emmerson Mnangagwa made his way to Manicaland this week to take in the damage from Cyclone Idai and meet with officials responding to the disaster, but the trip was sullied by featherbedding...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa boils as the year end
During the year just ending, Zimbabwe confirmed to the world, within a difficult context, the soundness of its institutions, the resilience of its economy and its attachment to national unity. Despite...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 22:35hrs | 5 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
CIOs stressing over Mnangagwa's safety
As the Zanu-PF conference gets off in earnest in Esigodini today, security agents are stressing over the safety of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his top aides - as the ruling party converges there ...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 13:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF sweats over Mnangagwa's safety
As the Zanu-PF conference gets off in earnest in Esigodini today, security agents are stressing over the safety of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his top aides - as the ruling party converges there ...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 06:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga's wife pours heart out
The ex-model wife of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has spoken out about her bandaged hands and a harrowing story of an explosion that rocked a Zanu-PF rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo tha...Published: 21 Oct 2018 at 14:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Reconciliation, healing elusive in Zimbabwe
VICE-PRESIDENT Kembo Mohadi's revelation that he is still suffering from the trauma of the grenade attack that killed two people at a June campaign rally in Bulawayo addressed by President Emmerson Mn...Published: 03 Oct 2018 at 07:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa revisits his nearly fatal ice cream poisoning
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has once again revisited his nearly fatal poisoning at the height of the ruling Zanu-PF's deadly tribal, factional and succession wars last year - revealing how he had lat...Published: 24 Sep 2018 at 20:43hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
President Mohadi relives White City bombing
ACTING President Kembo Mohadi yesterday, for the first time, poured his heart out about "painful permanent mental scars'' that he sustained during the dastardly White City Stadium bombing attack in Bu...Published: 22 Sep 2018 at 09:17hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa avoids red carpet
The level of mistrust in Zanu-PF and government seems to have reached alarming levels after President–elect Emmerson Mnangagwa shocked all and sundry by avoiding stepping onto the red carpet rolled ...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 12:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Enemies wanted to kill me, says Mnangagwa
President Mnangagwa has said the June 23 bombing incident at a Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo was the work of enemies meant to eliminate him and his entire leadership, emphasising that violence had no room...Published: 21 Jul 2018 at 11:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Biti anoints himselves custodian of all Ndebele memory
It has become common practice that political foes often depart from the conventional meaning of common vocabulary with astonishing flaccidity, that one would think they take the world to be populated ...Published: 16 Jul 2018 at 06:52hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafawarova
Mohadi's brother dies
VICE-President Kembo Mohadi's young brother, Steven has died.Mohadi's wife Tambudzani, confirmed the death, saying the Vice-President's only blood brother died at a private hospital in Harare ...Published: 10 Jul 2018 at 07:28hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Mohadi, Muchinguri still in SA hospital, says Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said his two allies are still admitted in the neighbouring South Africa after they suffered injuries from white city bomb but are in a stable condition.Address...Published: 07 Jul 2018 at 19:29hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Mnangagwa opens up on bomb scare
President Mnangagwa has for the first time opened up on circumstances surrounding his 1964 arrest after bombing the Rhodesian steam locomotive in Fort Victoria (now Masvingo), revealing how he was for...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military pledges to respect poll outcome
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) says it will respect the outcome of the July 30 harmonised elections as its conduct is guided by the Constitution. ZDF spokesperson Colonel Overson Mugwisi sa...Published: 05 Jul 2018 at 07:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe flies into bomb storm
Former president Robert Mugabe returned home yesterday to face a torrent of allegations, inflamed by the recent bomb explosion that rocked the second city of Bulawayo on June 24, claiming two lives....Published: 04 Jul 2018 at 08:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa still not safe'
Unless President Emmerson Mnangagwa deals with those who are out to destroy him his life will remain under constant threat, social and political analysts contend.The recent bomb attack in Bula...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 14:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
New twist in Mnangagwa bomb attack
In an interesting turn of events, and as concerns grow over the security of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, war veterans are putting pressure on Vice President Constantine Chiwenga, who is in charge of ...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets urged to engage Mnangagwa on security offer
Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) members must engage President Emmerson Mnangagwa directly on their offer to be part of his close security, Information minister Simon Kha...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 13:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri denies losing breast after deadly bomb attack
Zanu-PF chairperson Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri was reportedly dismayed by a privately owned newspaper report that she lost her left breast in the bombing at an election rally that killed two people last...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 10:38hrs | 1 | by Staff rpeorter
Mugabe's party hits back at Mnangagwa
A faction of the National Patriotic Front (NPF) - which has the blessings of former president Robert Mugabe - has hit back at President Emmerson Mnangagwa on his claims that his former rivals in the G...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 17:08hrs | | by staff reporter
Zimbabwe experiencing no inter-party pre-poll violence
Zimbabwe is enjoying relative peace ahead of the July 30 general elections despite the bomb attack targeting President Emmerson Mnangagwa last Saturday.Unlike in previous elections, there have...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:19hrs | | by Tichaona Chifamba
Graft, insecurity dominate AU Summit
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa today joins his counterparts from across the continent for the official opening of the 31st Ordinary Session of the African Union Summit, whose proceedings started on Friday with a...Published: 01 Jul 2018 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
The bomb that strengthens the party and the country
The bomb attack on the White City Stadium in Bulawayo on the 23rd June 2018, was first and foremost an inhuman, undiscriminating attempt to massacre innocent, unsuspecting men and women attending a wa...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 13:35hrs | 1 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mnangagwa has given nation new hope, say Catholic bishops
CATHOLIC bishops in Zimbabwe have said President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his administration have given the nation new hope for the future.In a statement yesterday on the forthcoming elections, ...Published: 30 Jun 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
White City bombing: Are the CIO, ZRP & ZNA united?
Norton MP Temba Mliswa has questioned if the Zimbabwean security is united following the bomb attack at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's White City rally last Saturday."Thoughts to pondor ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 09:16hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Muchinguri loses breast, airlifted for special treatment
MINISTER of Water, Environment and Climate Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri, who was injured in a bomb blast at White City Stadium has been airlifted to South Africa for reconstruction surgery after ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 08:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Nobody wins spiteful wars
TWO separate news items from the past few days have been most instructive in their own way.The first was about MDC Alliance presidential spokesperson Nkululeko Sibanda walking into Herald Hous...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Conway Nkumbuzo Tutani
Residents call for tight security around Mnangagwa
MUTARE residents have called for tightening of security around President Emmerson Mnangagwa following the bombing blast that occurred at White City Stadium (Bulawayo) last Saturday which killed two pe...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:10hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Minister relives bomb attack horror
MINISTER of State in the President's Office Responsible for National Scholarships Christopher Mushohwe, who was among the Zanu-PF top brass that survived a bomb blast at White City Stadium (Bulawayo) ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 07:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Mnangagwa rift widens
The chasm between the incumbent and his predecessor is widening, with President Emmerson Mnangagwa accusing a Zanu-PF faction used by former president Robert Mugabe to persecute him before the militar...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 15:16hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa doesn't trust Grace Mugabe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sensationally claimed that he does not trust former First Lady Grace Mugabe and her G40 acolytes, adding he could not rule out their involvement in the fatal bomb atta...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cancels Hwange Rally
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has cancelled a rally he was set to address in Hwange amid reports that he has opted to meet the business community in Victoria Falls."Please be advised that Presi...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 15:05hrs | | by Byo24News Reporter
'Zanuism: belief Zanu PF is entitled to rule forever,' says Dr Manatsa - MDC is dogma's paid acolyte
If you have not read Dr Gus Manatsa's article "Zanuism, 'barrack democracy' threat to Zim's progress" in Bulawayo24 o...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 14:09hrs | 2 | by Wilbert Mukori
'Mnangagwa bomb an inside job,' admits Zanu-PF
ZANU-PF youths and war veterans yesterday sensationally claimed that the fatal explosion that killed two State security agents and injured 47 party members during a campaign rally in Bulawayo on Satur...Published: 27 Jun 2018 at 06:57hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's body guards die in bomb attack
CONDOLENCE MESSAGE BY HIS EXCELLENCY THE PRESIDENT, CDE E.D. MNANGAGWA, FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF TWO OFFICERS IN A BOMB BLAST. I learnt with a heavy heart of the death yesterday of our two...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 15:29hrs | 8 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa
Mnangagwa bomb: 3 people still critical in ICU
TWO victims of the bomb attack at a Zanu-PF rally in Bulawayo on Saturday have died.The attack saw President Emmerson Mnangagwa escaping unharmed but 49 people who include Vice President Kembo...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fears poll violence
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa says his Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) and its coalition partners feel more susceptible to violence after a bomb attack on a Zanu-PF party rally narrowly failed...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 16:01hrs | | by Tendai Marima
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