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'Zimbabwe army conditions of service in bad state'
The government has acknowledged that the working conditions for the uniformed forces, particularly the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), have become dire. Deputy Defence Minister Levi Mayihlome made this ...Published: 14 Sep 2024 at 12:21hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's uniformed forces urged to remain patriotic
Commander of the Zimbabwe National Army, Lieutenant-General Anselem Sanyatwe, has urged uniformed forces to remain steadfast, patriotic, and loyal in fulfilling their constitutional duty of defending ...Published: 03 Jun 2024 at 07:55hrs | 38 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 24 Lt Colonels
President Mnangagwa has in terms of the Defence Act promoted 24 Zimbabwe National Army Lieutanant Colonels to Colonel with effect from 20 December 2023.The promoted Colonels are: T Marufu, S C...Published: 13 Jan 2024 at 06:46hrs | 20 | by Staff reporter
3 Zimbabwe army colonels promoted
Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Mnangagwa yesterday promoted three Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Colonels Chrispen Nduku, Arnold Gumbo and Richard Mahoya to the rank of Bri...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 05:00hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military commander will soon be redeployed
AS President Emmerson Mnangagwa continues to make surprise post-election appointments amid political manoeuvres by the military to reposition itself for a more influential role going forward, Zimbabwe...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 21:24hrs | 51 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 40 senior military officers
Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Mnangagwa, has promoted 40 Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) senior officers.Twenty Lieutenant Colonels were promoted to full Colonels w...Published: 01 Dec 2022 at 04:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints first female Air Vice Marshal
AIR Force of Zimbabwe senior officer Winnie Mandeya yesterday made history as she took oath as Zimbabwe Defence Forces first woman to reach the rank of Air Vice Marshal, a rank equivalent to a Major G...Published: 22 Nov 2022 at 04:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 3 army colonels
President Mnangagwa, who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, yesterday promoted three Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) colonels to the rank of Brigadier-General.The promotion...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:32hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 7 colonels
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has promoted seven Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) Lieutenant Colonels to the rank of colonels. The promotions were made in terms of Section 15 (1) (b) of the Defence Act (Chapter 11:...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:08hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers' pay hike riles civil servants
A move to award soldiers a 37% pay increase at a time when the government is silent about reviewing civil servants salaries has drawn fire from some teachers' unions, who say it exposed double standar...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:17hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 9 army officers
President Mnangagwa, who is the Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, yesterday promoted nine lieutenant colonels to colonel.The promotions were made in terms of the Defence Act a...Published: 31 Mar 2022 at 08:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes two colonels to Brig Generals
THE Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Mnangagwa, yesterday promoted two Zimbabwe National Army colonels to the rank of brigadier generals and 23 majors to lieutenant colonel...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:12hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Africa stuck in generational curse
WHOEVER bewitched African leaders probably perished at Nagasaki in 1945, many years before the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) was founded in 1963. That person, alongside his tools of trade and hi...Published: 08 Oct 2021 at 19:02hrs | 7 | by Sapien Sapien
Mnangagwa promotes 8 ZNA colonels
President Mnangagwa has promoted eight colonels to the rank of substantive brigadier general as they retire. Their retirements are between July 2020 and April 2021.The eight Generals are David...Published: 24 Apr 2021 at 07:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt fails to buy security vehicles
MORALE in the security services may soon hit rock bottom as the government battles to plug a massive backlog of personal service vehicles for senior officers amid deteriorating working conditions, The...Published: 27 Feb 2021 at 19:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
How to kill a country
Nearly forty years ago Ian Smith, the Prime Minister of Rhodesia, became the first and only white colonial ruler to break away from the British Crown. He had tired of London's nagging about the subjug...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 16:49hrs | 2 | by Samantha Power
24 senior military officers promoted
Twenty-four Zimbabwe National Army lieutenant colonels have been promoted to the rank of colonel by Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces President Mnangagwa. The promotions were i...Published: 01 Dec 2020 at 06:48hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 24 ZDF members to Colonel
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has promoted 24 members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces to the rank of Colonel.The 24 members of the Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) including three females were promo...Published: 30 Nov 2020 at 18:23hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 11 Air Force of Zimbabwe officers
Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, President Mnangagwa, yesterday promoted 11 Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) officers from the rank of Squadron Leader to Wing Commander. The Presi...Published: 27 Nov 2020 at 07:00hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 54 ZNA officers
President Mnangagwa yesterday promoted 54 Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) officers to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel effective November 10. The President made the promotions under the Defence Act...Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:23hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 4 senior army officers
Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), President Mnangagwa, yesterday promoted four colonels to the rank of Brigadier-General with effect from November 10. The four are Brigadier-Gen...Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 05:58hrs | 2 | 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 | | by Kenneth Mufuka
Thambolenyoka was hurt to leave military life
WE continue our interview with Tennyson Mlobi Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who during the post-independence conflict operated as a dissident and was known as Thambolenyoka. However, during the war of liberati...Published: 20 Sep 2020 at 08:34hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
4 senior army officers promoted
Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces President Mnangagwa has promoted four colonels, who are all ex-combatants from the liberation war, to the rank of Brigadier-General, a few months befo...Published: 05 Sep 2020 at 09:30hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
War veterans want to be paid like Lt-Colonels
War veterans in Mashonaland East on Wednesday demanded that their pension benefits be raised to match salaries of serving army lieutenant-colonels.Speaking during a public meeting by the Calis...Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 07:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves to thwart military threat
IN the aftermath of the recent general elections which gave him some semblance of political legitimacy, albeit a hotly-disputed presidential poll, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now making bold yet r...Published: 21 Sep 2018 at 14:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga grounded
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last week played the ball firmly into Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga's court after politically emasculating him and sidelining his key lieutenants in his cabinet appo...Published: 14 Sep 2018 at 16:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe X-factor haunts Chamisa
THE military is fretting over a potential electoral strategic alliance between former president Robert Mugabe and the adventurous opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, whom it has warned coul...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 16:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army's role in Zanu-PF campaign exposed
SERVING and retired soldiers were heavily involved in Zanu-PF's chaotic primary elections last month and some of the candidates that will represent the party in the July 30 harmonised elections were i...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 17:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
ZDF promotes 21 army field officers
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) has promoted 21 army field officers from the ranks of majors to the substantive ranks of lieutenant colonels.In an interview with the ZBC News on the sideline...Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 17:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa promotes 20 senior army officers
Zimbabwe National Army senior officers have been urged to always be on high alert and to analyse situations in order to make timeous decisions to defend the country.Addressing 20 newly-promote...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 05:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
7 Colonels promoted to Brigadier-Generals
Seven Colonels promoted to Brigadier-Generals Army Commander Lt-General Edzai Absolom Chanyuka Chimonyo confers Brigadior General Simo Maseko with his new rank at Army Headquarters in Harare yesterday...Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 05:42hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South Sudan to hang former South African colonel
A court in South Sudan has sentenced a former South African colonel to death by hanging for conspiring against President Salva Kiir's government.William John Endley, who served as an adviser t...Published: 23 Feb 2018 at 11:04hrs | | by BBC
31 ZNA Majors conferred to Lieutenant Colonels
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has conferred 31 officers from the rank of Major to Lieutenant Colonels at a ceremony held at the Josiah Magama Tongogara Barracks in the capital.Guest of hono...Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 20:19hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
The Chipanga and Simon Khaya Moyo response to the Generals – Implications
Yesterday, the Generals came together and issued a statement which was addressed to President Robert Mugabe as the head of ZANU PF the political party. The argument being that the repercussions of the...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 00:14hrs | | by Lloyd Msipa
Mnangagwa's hard choices: Grace Mugabe to rule Zimbabwe by 2019
Former Zanu-PF stalwart and now National People's Party (NPP) chairman, Dzikamai Mavhaire has given Emmerson Mnangagwa four options now that he has been fired from Government but cautioned Zimbabweans...Published: 14 Nov 2017 at 05:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe promotes 29 army officers
President Mugabe has promoted 29 Zimbabwe National Army officers into different substantive ranks.The promotions, which are in terms of Section 15 (1) (B) of the Defence Act (Chapter 11:02), a...Published: 12 Sep 2017 at 06:48hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Govt deploys soldiers to supervise harvesting of maize
HARARE - Government has deployed soldiers to supervise the harvesting of maize produced under the Command Agriculture programme in a bid to prevent side-marketing of the crop.The move is also ...Published: 22 Aug 2017 at 12:59hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe army, police clashes mystery deepens
AUTHORITIES in Harare were yesterday scrambling for words to cover up a nasty bust-up between police and sections of the military early this week that reportedly left six people injured.A join...Published: 05 Aug 2017 at 09:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe buys 300 top cars for army chiefs
THE cash-strapped government has splashed millions of dollars on more than 300 top-of-the-range vehicles, which include Toyota Fortuners, Ford Rangers and Toyota Corollas to appease security bosses ah...Published: 30 Jun 2017 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Mphoko in fierce cabinet row
ZIMBABWE'S co-Vice-Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko - the two remaining liberation struggle stalwarts in government besides President Robert Mugabe and a few others - fiercely clas...Published: 19 May 2017 at 08:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zipra commemorate Kalisosa, Chidode battles
HUNDREDS of people from Hwange District and beyond converged on Chidobe Primary School last week to listen to chronicles of the liberation struggle by ex-Zipra freedom fighters who survived two battle...Published: 30 Apr 2017 at 14:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe unleashes crack team on activists
GOVERNMENT has unleashed a quasi-military terror campaign on social movement activists and opposition political leaders to quash popular dissent against President Robert Mugabe's rule amid rising ...Published: 07 Oct 2016 at 18:55hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe in deadly military backlash
GOVERNMENT has covertly deployed the military and other security forces to surround the protests-wrecked capital Harare, while unleashing a crack unit to operate under cover to crackdown on the opposi...Published: 02 Sep 2016 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Coup attempt plunges Turkey into chaos
A defiant Recep Tayyip Erdogan pledged on Saturday morning to crush an attempted coup, as the Turkish president launched a series of attacks and arrests on the breakaway military faction he accuse...Published: 16 Jul 2016 at 09:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe intensifies regime coup-proofing
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is coup-proofing his regime by giving security forces preferential treatment ahead of other civil servants in the face of worsening economic conditions in the country. Besi...Published: 08 Jul 2016 at 15:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
MP releases album
The Salvation Army church has been consistent in promoting quality education and healthcare services in Zimbabwe for the past 125 years, Mazowe South legislator Advocate Fortune Chasi has said....Published: 30 Jun 2016 at 17:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe promotes 37 army officers
President Mugabe has promoted 37 Zimbabwe National Army field officers to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.They were all promoted in line with Section 15 (1) B of the Defence Act, Chapter 11:02 ...Published: 09 Mar 2016 at 05:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe rewards military officials
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has continued rewarding high ranking military officials who were part of the army commanders who plotted his brutal campaign in the run up to the June 2008 presidential electio...Published: 08 Jan 2016 at 08:11hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe promotes 22 Senior army officers
President Mugabe has promoted three Zimbabwe National Army colonels to the rank of Brigadier-General and 19 Lieutenant Colonels to the rank of full colonels. They were all promoted in line wit...Published: 06 Jan 2016 at 05:15hrs | 3 | by Abigail Mawonde and Talent Chimutambgi
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