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CIO was trained and worked closely with CIA and MI6
Recently declassified files have confirmed that the United States' Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) once operated secret offices in Salisbury, Rhodesia (now Harare, Zimbabwe), aligning with claims ma...Published: 19 Mar 2025 at 15:35hrs | 2720 | by Staff reporter
Why Donald Trump's support has been growing!
My friends in Europe and in Africa ask me the perennial question. What makes for Donald Trump's longevity in American politics? And why are the Democrats trying their best to lock him up in a ja...Published: 10 Mar 2024 at 06:59hrs | 20 | by Kenneth Mufuka
A curse that will forever haunt Zimbabwe opposition
THOSE of us who grew up in the village know that nothing can be as foul-smelling as a skunk.It literally stinks to high heaven.By some freak of nature, these cat-sized black-and-white ...Published: 02 Jul 2023 at 07:40hrs | 15 | by Bishop Lazi
Mnangagwa not qualified to judge liberation struggle credentials of comrades
Zimbabwean former deputy prime minister Arthur Mutambara, an Oxford University-trained robotics professor known for his outstanding academic prowess and political activism, says President Emmerson Mna...Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 08:24hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
The International Criminal Court a ridiculous organisation
The world has recently been surprised to hear that the ICC has issued a ‘warrant of arrest' for Russian President Vladimir Putin. The central charge against him is that he is responsible for the abd...Published: 02 Jun 2023 at 06:59hrs | 3 | by Ian Beddowes
Persecution of Donald Trump!
If I were in President Emmerson Mnangagwa's situation, and the US I had an audience with the ambassador whereby the honourable ambassador would lecture me about free and fair elections, the rule of la...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:06hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka
'Zanu-PF was also called a puppet of the West'
Local journalist Zenzele Ndebele says Zanu-PF should stop describing those who disagree with it as puppets of the West as that is ahistorical with regards to itself and even irony writ large....Published: 08 May 2023 at 19:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
US Afghanistan spies enter Zimbabwe to fight for asylum in South Africa
THE group of 22 Afghan nationals, who worked closely with United States military and security agencies after the invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 in the aftermath of the 9/11 terrorist attack on Americ...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:47hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
A fool and his money are soon parted!
The cash taps have well and truly been turned on.It seems hardworking Zimbabweans in faraway lands have been doing their bit to support family and friends back home, including bankrolling pote...Published: 15 May 2022 at 06:10hrs | 3 | by Bishop
New Gates Foundation trustee led plot to overthrow Zim leader alongside US
WHILE Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa, recently appointed to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to add his other high-profile board appointments such as at Rockefeller Foundation, is a rol...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:41hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
George Soros: The man behind the Matabeleland North land fight
George Soros is a renowned businessman who made his money from hedge funds and decided to become a philanthropist sponsoring what he calls democracy projects around the world. His name has bee...Published: 30 Jan 2022 at 15:17hrs | 2 | by Chrispen Khumalo
Chinamasa attacks Chamisa, Biti over sanctions
Zanu-PF secretary of finance Patrick Chinamasa has claimed that the main opposition MDC Alliance would not win the March 26 by-elections became its leaders Nelson Chamisa and Tendai Biti allegedly cal...Published: 20 Jan 2022 at 05:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo not returning to Zimbabwe anytime soon
EXILED former Cabinet minister and Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo has said he will not return to Zimbabwe anytime soon as he feared for his life after allegedly surviving an "assassination att...Published: 30 Dec 2021 at 07:55hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF monitoring Chamisa's movements
Zanu-PF acting national political commissar Patrick Chinamasa has said the ruling party was monitoring all movements made by Nelson Chamisa's MDC Alliance to make sure it does not receive foreign fund...Published: 30 Nov 2021 at 05:44hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Viktor Sheiman's son secretly mines gold in Zimbabwe
IN March 2018, Viktor Sheiman, the then head of the Property Management Directorate of Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, paid an official visit to Zimbabwe where he and Mines minister Winston...Published: 09 Oct 2021 at 07:23hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups
FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in th...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 9 | by William Jethro Mpofu
When Zambia had a Tsvangirai moment
Phew! What an eventful week it was, from the fall of Kabul to the Taliban and the fall of Edgar "Chagwa" Lungu to Hakainde Hichilema in Zambia.And we also had new Malawian President Dr Lazarus...Published: 22 Aug 2021 at 07:47hrs | 4 | by Bishop Lazi
Chinamasa savages US ambassador Brian Nichols
ZANU-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa yesterday again savaged United States (US) ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols, saying he is pushing a regime change agenda.This comes after the ...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 21:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
The inscrutable Mr Trump!
*This letter uses American jargonIt took me sometime to figure out why the inscrutable, rascally US President Donald J Trump drives so many elites into a lunatic frenzy until I read a post fro...Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Kenneth Mufuka
'Kasukuwere is a double agent now, he is working for the CIA,' says Chinamasa
ZANU-PF acting spokesperson Patrick Chinamasa says Saviour Kasukuwere, the former ruling party former the Zanu-PF national political commissar was daydreaming, and he will no longer be readmitted to a...Published: 22 Sep 2020 at 06:24hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo to be deported back to Zimbabwe? - 'How CIO works'
The Zimbabwean and international space has been congested by Jonathan Moyo posting photos of certain individuals accusing them for being members in the president's office who are persecuting and tortu...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 3 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
17 CIA spies sentenced to death
(CNN)Iran has detained 17 Iranian citizens accused of acting as spies for the United States Central Intelligence Agency, according to the country's Ministry of Intelligence.An Intelligence Min...Published: 22 Jul 2019 at 18:53hrs | 1 | by CNN
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 | 2 | by Itai Mushekwe
Undemocratic 'democrats'
Over the years, the US-backed and Western-sponsored opposition politics in our country has been in many ways a replay of Washington's mindless games that started soon after the declaration of the Amer...Published: 31 Mar 2019 at 23:48hrs | 1 | by Reason Wafwarova
'Mugabe seized my book on Tongogara's death'
FORMER President Robert Mugabe confiscated a book written by now Defence minister Oppah Muchinguri, detailing the circumstances surrounding the death of the late Zimbabwe National Liberation Army (Zan...Published: 28 Dec 2018 at 08:36hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe Struggle, The Delayed Revolution: an Autobiography
The need to account for multiple narratives in the history of the liberation struggle compelled Andrew Ndlovu's autobiography to proffer his narrative from the front. The book serves to demonstrate th...Published: 01 Nov 2018 at 12:29hrs | 28 | by Brian Maregedze
'Continue to probe Mugabe, Mpofu over $15bn'
PARLIAMENT yesterday recommended that the forthcoming ninth Parliament should continue to investigate claims by former President Robert Mugabe that $15 billion worth of diamond revenue went missing....Published: 08 Jun 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Should army generals involved in gukurahundi be brought to book? #Zimbabwe
REVERED wartime commander and Zimbabwe's first black military General Solomon Mujuru might have been aware the post-war atrocities that continue to evoke emotions to this day.Commonly referred...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 05:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ibbo Mandaza takes aim at Mnangagwa
RESPECTED academic Ibbo Mandaza has claimed that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's backers approached him to help push for a transitional government that will have been led by the under-fire politic...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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 | 2 | by Itai Mushekwe, Nancy Mabaya, Mary-Kate Kahari and Malvin Motsi
Dabengwa opens up on Gukurahundi
ZAPU president Dumiso Dabengwa who also served as the chief of Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) intelligence - has poured his heart out on the highly emotive issue – reminding the author...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 06:42hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa formed UPM to topple Mugabe
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has told President Robert Mugabe how he allegedly tried to form an opposition party with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, piling pressure on the ...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo spills the beans on Mnangagwa
Higher and Tertiary Education ministerJonathan Moyo has told President Robert Mugabe how he allegedly tried to form an opposition party with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, piling pressure on the u...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa roasts Jonathan Moyo
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa reportedly went for broke at Wednesday's politburo meeting where he "exposed" Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo's alleged role in leaking sensitive State secret...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 07:56hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
'Jonathan Moyo a CIA spy,' claims Mnangagwa
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly accused President Robert Mugabe’s former spin doctor, Jonathan Moyo, of being a spy deployed by America's Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to destro...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 19:20hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa comes out guns blazing at Jonathan Moyo
EMBATTLED Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, battling for survival on politically shifting sands, has come out guns blazing in his response to Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo's video-documenta...Published: 06 Oct 2017 at 13:01hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants $3m from Jonathan Moyo
Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has given Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo a seven-day ultimatum to retract allegations that the veteran politician forced a prominent broadcaster...Published: 25 Sep 2017 at 08:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Watchdog zooms in on Zimbabwe's missing $15 billion
Zimbabwe's ruling elite has diverted the country's vast diamond riches to help fund repression by dodging sanctions and raising money for security forces, an anti-corruption campaign group alleged Mon...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 15:58hrs | | by Agencies
Mnangagwa poisoning saga spills into politburo
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is likely to be the main subject of discussion at today's politburo meeting, following the alleged food poisoning saga and his efforts to counter Higher Education min...Published: 06 Sep 2017 at 06:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
Cde Mnangagwa has recovered, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I must express my displeasure at the manner in which the sad news of Cde Rutanhire's passing was handled. It appeared as if the party does not have ...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by CZ
Mnangagwa threatened to kill Jonathan Moyo?
VICE-President Emmerson Mnangagwa allegedly told Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo during a heated Zanu-PF politburo meeting that they used to kill trouble makers like him during the war, it has...Published: 13 Aug 2017 at 13:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Politburo grills VP Mnangagwa
AS the Zimbabwe Independent accurately reported on June 23, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa was put in the Zanu PF politburo dock and grilled on Wednesday by bitter rival Jonathan Moyo, who is bayin...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 15:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sparks fly in Zanu-PF politburo
Zanu-PF's politburo has virtually become a war zone for factional fights playing out in the top echelons of the ruling party, with Wednesday's meeting proving beyond any reasonable doubt that Presiden...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 14:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi mastermind claims to have exposed Jonathan Moyo lies
Air Marshal Perrance Shiri says Professor Jonathan Moyo is a liberation war deserter, who had links with an outfit aligned to Rhodesian security services.The Commander of the Air Force of Zimb...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 07:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Air Marshal exposes Prof Jonathan Moyo lies
Air Marshal Perrance Shiri says Professor Jonathan Moyo is a liberation war deserter, who had links with an outfit aligned to Rhodesian security services.The Commander of the Air Force of Zimb...Published: 09 Jul 2017 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
No reburials for Gukurahundi victims, only a big plaque is enough--Mphoko
Thousands of Gukurahundi victims in Matabeleland and the Midlands do not deserve to be exhumed for decent burials as it is unAfrican, President Phelekezela Mphoko told parliament.T...Published: 03 Mar 2017 at 04:13hrs | | by Thobekile Zhou
Tsvangirai wants Matabeleland plan
Opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai says there is an urgent need to craft a government policy that will address the legitimate grievances of the people of Matabeleland, including the thorny issue of t...Published: 30 Jan 2017 at 07:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Gukurahundi massacre haunting Mujuru in his grave following CIA revelations
"Rinemanyanga hariputirwi!" (Evil, no matter how well you conceal it, will always come out to haunt you!) goes the Shona saying. The Gukurahundi massacres are haunting the late Solomon Mujuru even in ...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 19:56hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Mujuru's Gukurahundi skeletons tumble
REVERED wartime commander and Zimbabwe's first black military General Solomon Mujuru might have been aware the post-war atrocities that continue to evoke emotions to this day.Commonly refe...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staf reporter
Sekeramayi hand in Gukurahundi 'exposed'
DEFENCE minister Sydney Sekeramayi has been implicated as having been instrumental in the post-independence atrocities committed by President Robert Mugabe's government that left over 20 000 civil...Published: 27 Jan 2017 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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