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More deadly protests lined-up in Zimbabwe
DEADLY street protests which brought Zimbabwe to a standstill this week have added impetus to calls by opposition parties and civil society organisations for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to agree to d...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 10:50hrs | 9480 | by Staff reporter
War vets want bank
WAR veterans are pushing for the establishment of a bank to exclusively fund their projects, classifying themselves as a special interest group.Information obtained by the Zimbabwe Independent...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:57hrs | 975 | by Staff reporter
War vets internal strife escalating
Internal strife within the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) is escalating with confusion surfacing on when the congress to choose the new leadership will be held....Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:23hrs | 2447 | by Staff reporter
REVEALED: Full list of ministers to be reshuffled
President Emmerson Mnangagwa will be making changes to the cabinet in mid January. A source in the Office of the President and Cabinet has revealed to us that the discussions that took place at ...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 11:26hrs | 18606 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matemadanda speaks on Mutsvangwa tiff
Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) secretary-general Victor Matemadanda said there is no tiff between him and his chairperson Christopher Mutsvangwa.Matemadanda tol...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:36hrs | 1324 | by Staff reporter
Dzamara speaks on War veterans
Activist Patson Dzamara has called up the generation of war veterans running the affairs of the country to retire and let a young people take over the positions."The bunch of liberators has overst...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 06:08hrs | 2484 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Confused Mnangagwa must spare us our hardworking doctors
What a big joke that the junta led government has suspended our striking doctors. Does Mnangagwa and Chiwenga really think well?, these two guys might be in need of mental medical check ups. Suspendin...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 18:23hrs | 2615 | by Knowledge Hakata
'Mnangagwa is sincere about change' - so why did he rig the elections
"What kind of leaders would the armed struggle throw up?" Was the rhetorical question Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, the first Prime Minister of independent India, and the other leaders asked thems...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 07:29hrs | 3229 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Mutsvangwa escalates war against Energy Mutodi
Information Minister Monica Mutsvangwa and her accounting officer Nick Mangwana have escalated war against their Deputy Minister Energy Mutodi as they try to wrestle him out of their ministry. ...Published: 25 Dec 2018 at 12:27hrs | 11905 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mutsvangwa ouster plot latest
THE internal power struggle rocking the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), pitting national chairperson Christopher Mutsvangwa and secretary general Victor Matemadanda, is...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:34hrs | 2527 | by Staff reporter
Government respond to War vets demands
War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda has told the media that the government does not have money to pay the war veterans who demonstrated earlier this week demanding $2 000 every month....Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 07:51hrs | 5824 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matemadanda berates war vets who demonstrated against him
WAR Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda has berated some former fighters who challenged his liberation war credentials, saying he cannot be vetted in the streets.Matemadanda was reacti...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 07:05hrs | 1997 | by Staff reporter
War vets are worse than Zedera
The Secretary General of the former liberation fighters, Victor Matemadanda, is never short of coming with something ridiculous.What he smokes is a mystery .This time he is calling for a legislation t...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 19:16hrs | 3176 | by AT Kadada
ZANU PF Youth leader warns War vetarans
ZANU PF Masvingo Provincial Youth Chairman Brian Munyoro has warned a group of War veterans who staged a demonstration at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumutapa Offices on Monday...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 11:02hrs | 5382 | by Collen Ncube
ZANU PF MP blasts ZANU PF youths
ZAMU PF Member of Parliament for Gokwe-Nembudziya Mayor Justice wadyajena has come out guns blazing against ZANU PF Youth league members calling them traitors who are being paid by MDC supporter...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 10:03hrs | 1913 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: ZBC scams and sabotages War veterans
Members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association has claimed the the national broadcaster ZBC received payment for an advert meant to invite association members to a demonstration ...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 09:28hrs | 3128 | by Mandla Ndlovu
War vets demand $13.5 billion
As part of the resolutions passed at the just-ended Zanu-PF conference in Esigodini last week, it was agreed that members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) be rewar...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 07:19hrs | 4671 | by Staff reporter
War vets storm Mnangagwa office
A GROUP of 20 former freedom fighters calling themselves the War Veterans Welfare Committee yesterday stormed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumutapa office to hand over a 10-page petition demandin...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:15hrs | 1281 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: War vets call Matemadanda a bogus taxi driver
On Monday war vets aligned to Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa faction staged a demonstration against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and War vets leader Victor Matemadanda.Watch the video below:...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 17:23hrs | 6542 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: War vets demonstrate against Mnangagwa
Members of the Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans Association faction aligned to Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa on Monday staged a demonstration at the Munhumutapa offices calling for President Mnanga...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 11:08hrs | 15980 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa killed presidential age limit motion
President Emmerson Mnangagwa threw out the contentious motion to up the presidential age limit from 40 to 52 years that had been reverently pushed by the war veterans and the ruling party women's leag...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 20:27hrs | 5158 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF plot to split MDC exposed
The proposal by ZANU PF members to review the minimum presidential candidate age is a spirited effort to cause alarm and despondency within the rank and file of the opposition MDC, a top member of the...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 11:27hrs | 13727 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Minister SB Moyo retires?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is reportedly mulling a cabinet reshuffle that will see minister of foreign affairs Sibusiso Busi Moyo retiring from the ministry of Foreign Affairs and taking up fu...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 07:29hrs | 30285 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa rejects amendment to block Chamisa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party has rejected a proposal from its affiliate, the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), to raise the age limit for presidential asp...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 05:04hrs | 7332 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF agrees Chamisa age bar
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF party onSaturday edged closer to shutting opposition MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa out of the 2023 presidential election.This was after a resolution...Published: 16 Dec 2018 at 11:00hrs | 17186 | by newzimbabwe
Mutsvangwa snubs ZANU PF Conference?
Embattled Leader of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association Ambassador Christopher was conspicuous with his absence at the ZANU PF National People's Conference held at Esigodini. ...Published: 14 Dec 2018 at 13:46hrs | 10951 | by Mandla Ndlovu
War Veterans now Hated like Armed Robbers in Zimbabwe
Imagine living in a country run by Armed Robbers. The President, the Ministers, the Police, the Judiciary all being armed and ready to pull a trigger to defend their positions of power at any cost? Th...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 09:31hrs | 1812 | by Multiverse Dungani
Government speaks on 52 years Presidential age limit
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is not going to allow for the constitution to be amended in order to revise the minimum presidential age from 40 to 52, a senior government official has revealed. ...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 19:02hrs | 6200 | by Mandla Ndlovu
WATCH: Matemadanda laughs at Chamisa
In a circulating video on social media, War Veterans Secretary General Victor Matemadanda is seen laughing at MDC leader Nelson Chamisa saying he focuses on speaking in English only and does not have ...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 18:17hrs | 7317 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF women target Chamisa over presidential age limit
THE ZANU-PF Women's League has joined war veterans in pushing for a constitutional amendment to raise the presidential age limit from 40 to 52 years. Members of the league from the country's 1...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:47hrs | 2807 | by Staff reporter
Madhuku blasts Matemadanda
Human Rights lawyer and member of the Kgalema Motlanthe Commission of inquiry Professor Lovemore Madhuku has come out guns blazing against War veterans Secretary General Victor Matemadanda for p...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 16:17hrs | 12304 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF bigwigs awaken Esigodini
Government business will literally come to a halt as the who's who in Zanu-PF, including Cabinet ministers, abandon their stations this week to attend the party's annual peoples' conference in Esigodi...Published: 10 Dec 2018 at 06:21hrs | 2205 | by Staff reporter
Bootlicking politics is our major problem
Zimbabwe has for the 37 years bedeviled by politics for the stomach, especially in the ruling party. Political jobs that comes by appointment leaves the appointees and those who have a potenti...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 18:14hrs | 1713 | by Isaac Nkomah
Chamisa must be stopped, says Muchinguri
Zanu-PF bigwigs that are annoyed by pressure from the MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa are agitating for the ruling party to use its two-thirds parliamentary majority to amend the Constitution and l...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:33hrs | 15854 | by Staff reporter
Makhurane buried
The founding Vice Chancellor of the National University of Science and Technology (NUST) Professor Phineas Makhurane has been laid to rest at his rural home in Gungwe, Gwanda South.Professor M...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 15:10hrs | 1578 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths against blocking Chamisa
The Zanu-PF youth league has come out guns blazing against war veterans who have proposed a controversial constitutional amendment of the presidential age limit - aimed at blocking opposition leader N...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 14:31hrs | 7504 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF Youths speak on Presidential age increase
ZANU PF Youths have opened up on the proposed increase of the Presidential age from 40 to 52 years. The proposal was done by the War Veterans and they want ZANU PF to adopt it during the December Conf...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 11:33hrs | 6431 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa versus Matemadanda
Chamisa presented a petition to parliament demanding negotiations with Mnangagwa so that they form a second GNU in the name of NTA. Chamisa is signaling the amendment of the constitution so that he is...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 21:18hrs | 7272 | by Etiwel Mutero
Chamisa describes Mnangagwa's regime as a 'kakistocracy'
Nelson Chamisa, and a broad section of Zimbabweans yesterday blasted war veterans leader Victor Matemadanda over his motion ahead of the Zanu-PF annual national people's conference to have the ruling ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 15:49hrs | 1433 | by Staff reporter
EFF calls for Zimbabweans to resisist war vets move
Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters have condemned the statements by the War Veterans Association calling for the revision of the Presidential limit age from 40 to 52.The organisation cal...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 12:54hrs | 3897 | by Mandla Ndlovu
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 | 988 | by Robert Sigauke
Panic as Mutsvangwa throws Matemadanda under the bus
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association has been thrown into a panic mode after it emerged that the announcement by Secretary General Victor Matemadanda to increase Presidential age ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 09:11hrs | 19165 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matemadanda torches storm
MDC Bulawayo provincial spokesperson Felix Magalela Sibanda yesterday lambasted the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) secretary-general Victor Matemadanda over his comment...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:59hrs | 2340 | by Staff reporter
It's the economy sick not presidential age limit Mr Matemadanda
War veterans are the vanguard of the liberation struggle and must make sure that democracy prevails in a society and tolerate divergent views.Secretary General of the Zimbabwe National L...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 21:35hrs | 2807 | by Leonard Koni
Chamisa chides Mnangagwa
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has chided President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his Zanu-PF over alleged attempts to take away citizens' freedoms through a proposed constitutional amendment to raise the preside...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 19:49hrs | 9592 | by newzimbabwe
Mnangagwa allies want presidential age limit raised to 52 years
War veterans yesterday moved a motion ahead of the Zanu-PF annual national people's conference to have the ruling party use its supermajority in Parliament to raise the minimum age for presidential as...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 15:17hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF Youths clash with war veterans
ZANU PF Youths have clashed with the Zimbabwe National Liberations War Veterans Association over the statements by the latter that the Zimbabwe Presidentail age limit must be moved from 40 to 52....Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 15:10hrs | 4029 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matemadanda is not a war veteran?
The Spokesperson of the National Patriotic Front Jealousy Mawari8re has sensationally claimed the Deputy Minister of Defense and War Veterans Victor Matemadanda is not a former freedom fighter but was...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 08:39hrs | 9143 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bloodless coup against ZANU PF government just started
In October 2018, I wrote a piece claiming that the ZANU PF government will collapse within six months if the controversial President ED Mnangagwa is not going to form an inclusive government with Nels...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 07:50hrs | 24220 | by Don Chigumba
Mnangagwa to discuss banning Chamisa from next two elections
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa will be prevented from contesting the next two Presidential Elections if Zanu-PF-aligned war veterans have their way.In shock pronouncements on Tuesday, the Zimbabwe ...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 06:35hrs | 7344 | by ZimLive
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