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Ex-CIO boss reveals Military Intelligence role in Baba Jukwa scandal
Former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Director-General Happyton Bonyongwe has revealed in his memoirs that the arrest and prosecution of individuals linked to the infamous Baba Jukwa Facebook...Published: 17 Oct 2024 at 15:48hrs | 2650 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvangwa part of Gukurahundi command team
There are reports that recently imposed outspoken war veteran's leader, Norton MP (Zanu PF) and Minister of Welfare Services for War Veterans, War Collaborators, Former Political Detainees and Restr...Published: 17 Feb 2015 at 12:14hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Baba Jukwa saga sop up Mutsvangwa
HARARE - A new youth lobby group within Zanu-PF calling itself Vana VaChaminuka, has threatened to expose the newly imposed outspoken war veterans leader, Norton MP (Zanu-PF) and Foreign Affairs...Published: 24 Nov 2014 at 12:35hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'I am not a sell-out,' says Rugare Gumbo
SUSPENDED Zanu-PF politician, Rugare Gumbo is itching to clear his name once the "dust has settled" in the troubled revolutionary party following damning allegations that the liberation war icon ...Published: 20 Nov 2014 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Baba Jukwa saga: 'be patient and wait,' says magistrate
Another bid for freedom by Baba Jukwa suspects, Edmund Kudzayi and his brother Philip, has again hit a snag after a Harare magistrate ruled that the two should remain on remand pending trial....Published: 07 Oct 2014 at 00:05hrs | | by Court Reporter
Baba Jukwa investigations, Cops to ropes in Google
Police investigations into the Baba Jukwa saga have gone international, with a team of detectives expected to leave for the United States to meet social networks and search engine providers to aid the...Published: 02 Sep 2014 at 07:08hrs | | by Tendai Rupapa
Baba Jukwa and the goblin that went rogue
EDITOR: This is the last part of Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana's 'Grace Mugabe, Baba Jukwa and the Olympics of Power in Zimbabwe' article.I ARGUE th...Published: 07 Aug 2014 at 07:31hrs | 1 | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Grace Mugabe, Baba Jukwa and the Olympics of Power in Zimbabwe
One stubborn theme that has arrested the attention of philosophers and poets from the childhood of humanity to the present era of technologised witchcraft is the theme of illusion and reality. Whe...Published: 05 Aug 2014 at 19:08hrs | | by Dinizulu Mbikokayise Macaphulana
Should Jonathan Moyo resign now?
The recent unprecedented but predictable summoning or should we say 'arrest' of Prof Jonathan Moyo by the Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) over the Baba Jukwa saga raises the question if the ministe...Published: 03 Aug 2014 at 10:43hrs | 14 | by Clifford Chitupa Mashiri
Baba Jukwa saga: 'No sacred cows'
Police are keen to interview all people who were mentioned by The Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi, who is accused of being the faceless Facebook character, Baba Jukwa.Sources close to inves...Published: 29 Jul 2014 at 06:01hrs | | by Freeman Razemba
Baba Jukwa saga: Cops urge officials to co-operate
POLICE have urged officials being called in to assist with investigations in the Baba Jukwa saga to fully co-operate with them after it emerged that some were not forthcoming, the state media reported...Published: 29 Jul 2014 at 02:47hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Baba Jukwa saga: Cops to interview everyone mentioned
POLICE yesterday said they were going to interview all the people who were recently mentioned by The Sunday Mail Editor Edmund Kudzayi, who is accused of being behind the faceless Facebook character B...Published: 28 Jul 2014 at 08:11hrs | 1 | by Freeman Razemba
Mugabe 'okayed' Jonathan Moyo's interrogation by cops
HARARE - President Robert Mugabe must have "okayed" Information minister Jonathan Moyo's Thursday interrogation by the Zimbabwean police, it has emerged.Although presidential spokesperson Geor...Published: 27 Jul 2014 at 12:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Jonathan Moyo arrest prediction confirmed - Sikhala
Controversial former St Mary's MDC-T Member of Parliament Job Sikhala says his prediction on the "arrest" of Information Media and Broadcasting Services Jonathan Moyo in connection with the Baba Jukwa...Published: 27 Jul 2014 at 09:30hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'Mugabe is ready to sacrifice Zanu PF strategist'
THE unusual step by the police to summon Information minister Jonathan Moyo for questioning over the Baba Jukwa saga could be the clearest indication yet that President Robert Mugabe is ready to sacri...Published: 27 Jul 2014 at 09:06hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Baba Jukwa saga: Kusukuwere questioned by police
Environment, Water and Climate Minister Saviour Kasukuwere was yesterday questioned by police detectives investigating the case involving shadowy Facebook character "Baba Jukwa".Minister Kas...Published: 27 Jul 2014 at 08:54hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Farawo
Senior army official questioned by cops over Baba Jukwa
POLICE on Friday questioned a senior army official and one of the designers of the Hovhorosi Style dress code Herbert Huruba in connection with the Baba Jukwa saga as investigations into the case cont...Published: 26 Jul 2014 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe's Zanu-PF burning over Baba Jukwa
Analysts have said the ugly factionalism bedevilling Zanu-PF could explode into deadly warfare after the minister of Media, Information and Broadcasting Services, Jonathan Moyo was reportedly gril...Published: 25 Jul 2014 at 14:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Baba Jukwa saga: 'Mathuthu has NOT fled Zimbabwe'
Mduduzi Mathuthu, the editor of the Bulawayo-based Chronicle, has dismissed media reports that he has fled the country amid reports of crack-down on the Baba Jukwa family witch-hunt.In his ...Published: 25 Jul 2014 at 11:26hrs | 1 | by Ndou Paul
Jonathan Moyo confirms he's been to the police over Baba Jukwa saga
POLICE investigating the Baba Jukwa case yesterday asked Information, Media and Broadcasting Services Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo to help them in their investigations by submitting clarifica...Published: 25 Jul 2014 at 00:17hrs | 2 | by Lovemore Chikova
Jonathan Moyo fails to report to police
Information minister Jonathan Moyo did not report to the Law and Order section of the police at 9am Thursday as instructed, allegedly to answer questions relating to the Baba Jukwa saga. On Wednesday ...Published: 24 Jul 2014 at 19:27hrs | | by Tichaona Sibanda
Baba Jukwa saga, summons issued against Zimpapers
TWO journalists accused of administering the rabble- rousing Baba Jukwa page have, through their lawyer, issued summons against the Zimbabwe Newspapers (1980) Limited (Zimpapers). Mxolisi Ncube and ...Published: 17 Jul 2014 at 12:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
SA based journalist refutes Baba Jukwa links
SOUTH African-based Zimbabwean journalist Mkhululi Chimoio, whom the state is keen to interview on suspicion he is one of the persons linked to shadowy online figure Baba Jukwa after being implicated ...Published: 11 Jul 2014 at 13:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Of the Baba Jukwa Saga and the Pretext to Gukurahundi Part II
Fellow Zimbabweans, and most importantly fellow Bakalanga, BaNambya, BaSotho and Vhavenda, I trust that I find you well after a long absence. I have been busy with other pressing work elsewhere. L...Published: 06 Jul 2014 at 23:38hrs | 1 | by Ndzimu-unami Emmanuel Moyo
MDC condemns arrest of 'Baba Jukwa' suspect
THE MDC-T has condemned the arrest of a University of Zimbabwe student in connection with the Baba Jukwa saga where Sunday Mail editor Edmund Kudzayi has been fingered as the mastermind.Romeo ...Published: 06 Jul 2014 at 06:34hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Baba Jukwa media coverage, Ministers blast journalists
Two government ministers on Friday lashed out at the media for giving too much attention to the Baba Jukwa saga while neglecting "real issues" affecting ordinary Zimbabweans.Addressing delegat...Published: 05 Jul 2014 at 06:08hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Baba Jukwa saga sucks in Kasukuwere
Environment Minister saviour Kasukuwere has been roped into the Baba Jukwa saga as it has emerged that a woman who implicated journalists Mkhululi Chimioi to the online blogger is linked to the minis...Published: 04 Jul 2014 at 07:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe does not order arrests'
Zvamaida MurwiraThe Executive does not have the power or right to direct the Zimbabwe Republic Police whom to arrest on suspicion of being the Internet character Baba Jukwa, Justice, Legal and Pa...Published: 03 Jul 2014 at 08:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Baba Jukwa saga: UZ student 'felt threatened'
A 20-YEAR-OLD University of Zimbabwe student appeared in court yesterday charged with attempting to subvert a constitutionally-elected government, attempting to commit an act of insurgency, banditry, ...Published: 03 Jul 2014 at 05:14hrs | 1 | by Tendai Rupapa
Mugabe will surely remove 'weevils' - Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's threats to deal with moles in Zanu PF was not an idle one as he does not make "light statements", Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa said yesterday.Mnangagwa told th...Published: 03 Jul 2014 at 04:49hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Baba Jukwa saga, two suspects arrested in Zim and SA
TWO more suspects linked to the controversial Facebook blogger Baba Jukwa have been arrested in separate incidents in Harare and South Africa as police intensify investigations into the shadowy Zanu ...Published: 01 Jul 2014 at 12:53hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
Ministers face arrest over Baba Jukwa saga
AS the fallout over the Baba Jukwa saga continues, the net is closing in on those connected to the shadowy Facebook character with high-profile arrests of cabinet ministers, politburo members, legisl...Published: 27 Jun 2014 at 15:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Now Renewal Team wants to buy victims of political violence
The announcement by Tendai Biti's nameless party that it has funds to start compensating MDC-T victims of political violence is the most telling of the renewal group's lack of moral fiber....Published: 26 Jun 2014 at 18:51hrs | 1 | by Douglas Mwonzora
Baba Jukwa plot thickens
It would be an understatement to say the Baba Jukwa saga is shaping up to be the runaway news story of the year 2014.Just as one is tempted to think this mega political soapie would fizzle out...Published: 25 Jun 2014 at 13:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Sikhala speaks on Jukwagate
I have just read an article by the Chronicle editor Mduduzi Mathuthu about the Jukwa saga and in his efforts to try and dissociate Edmund Kudzayi from the radical Baba Jukwa by creating another false ...Published: 23 Jun 2014 at 11:12hrs | | by Job Sikhala
Jonathan Moyo fingered in Baba Jukwa network
The anger President Robert Mugabe has repeatedly expressed in public towards Information minister Jonathan Moyo has been sparked by a very damaging intelligence report implicating Moyo in clandestine ...Published: 10 Jun 2014 at 08:54hrs | | by Itai Dzamara
Baba Jukwa saga, Facebook faces class action
A GROUP of individuals who were targeted by Baba Jukwa's Facebook page are in contact with a South African law firm preparing a class action lawsuit against the American social media company, The Her...Published: 19 May 2014 at 07:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Baba Jukwa saga, 5 face arrest
The state media reports that at least five people have come to the attention of the authorities for allegedly collaborating with Baba Jukwa.One of the suspects is a computer programmer base...Published: 18 May 2014 at 13:17hrs | 4 | by Staff Reporter
Baba Jukwa saga sucks in Chimoio and Ncube's lawyer
Baba Jukwa, who claimed to be close to Zanu-PF, was embedded in MDC-T politics and had contacts with the party's leadership among them the opposition party's Harare provincial spokesperson Mr Obert G...Published: 17 May 2014 at 06:16hrs | 8 | by Staff Reporter
Baba Jukwa plot thickens
A senior staffer at the Sunday Mail is behind the leaking of recent Baba Jukwa exposés. He is working with senior politicians in Zanu-PF and intelligence agents to fight a factional war ahead of the...Published: 16 May 2014 at 06:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF probes officials over Baba Jukwa saga
Zanu-PF is probing which of its senior officials fed information, some of it false, to the discredited "Baba Jukwa" Facebook page, while police have said they are ready to investigate potential crimin...Published: 13 May 2014 at 06:21hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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