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Mathibela's war vets reject rival congress as invalid
A faction leader of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), Andreas Ethan Mathibela, has denounced the recent congress held by Christopher Mutsvangwa's faction in Gweru on ...Published: 15 Oct 2024 at 18:17hrs | 1115 | by Staff reporter
Rugeje survives near-fatal bizarre car accident
Zanu-PF politburo member and retired army general Engelbert Rugeje narrowly escaped death last week in a harrowing car accident in Mt. Pleasant, according to sources within the ruling party. The incid...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:31hrs | 2472 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF commissar's post a poisoned chalice
POLITICAL analyst Rashweat Mukundu says the short lifespan in office of political commissars in Zanu-PF reflects how the position has become increasingly unsafe, amid growing infighting fuelled by suc...Published: 28 May 2024 at 13:43hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe constitutional changes loom
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has made surprise changes in the Zanu-PF politburo - the party's supreme decision-making body - amid reports that he wants to move to amend the constitution to facilitate ...Published: 21 May 2024 at 17:01hrs | 30 | by Staff reporter
The year Mnangagwa reined in his rival Chiwenga
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa this year emerged triumphant at the Zanu-PF elective congress after a fierce five-year power struggle - characterised by scheming, backstabbing, a grenade attack, poisonin...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 18:26hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF congress maintains 2017 coup hierarchy
"LOBENGULA comes back as secretary for administration," Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on 29 October as he appointed the ruling party's top leadership at the recent congress at...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa brings rival Chiwenga to his knees
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has brought his bitter rival Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga to his knees - literally and metaphorically - at the crucial Zanu-PF congress which ended in Harare yester...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi still enjoying lavish taxpayer-funded privileges
DESPITE resigning in March as state vice-president amid a string of sensational sex scandals, Kembo Mohadi - who remains Zanu-PF co-deputy leader with Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga - is still en...Published: 31 Jul 2021 at 17:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa in army boss appointment clash with Chiwenga
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga are on a new collision course over the appointment of the next Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander, with retired Lieutenant-Gene...Published: 20 Jul 2021 at 11:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Dear Mr President Mnangagwa
Dear Emmerson,I am writing this in response to your call on Zimbabweans to cherish the peace we are enjoying as you addressed members of the Defence forces.I would to like to bring to your...Published: 14 Aug 2019 at 22:41hrs | | by AT Kadada
PHOTOS: ZANU PF demonstration in Bulawayo flops
A demonstration by ZANU PF members which was scheduled to be held in Bulawayo on Monday was cancelled due to low turnout.The demonstration was supposed to be against business people who are in...Published: 08 Jul 2019 at 11:40hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Thousands bid national hero Dabengwa farewell
THOUSANDS yesterday thronged White City Stadium to pay their last respects to national hero Dr Dumiso Dabengwa as speakers from a cross section of society testified to his impeccable liberation war cr...Published: 01 Jun 2019 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa walks tight rope
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is still walking a tightrope between extremism and moderation as he approaches the end of the first year of his election last July.Perhaps nothing demonstrates his...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:27hrs | | by Jonathan Maphenduka
Chamisa invited to anti-sanctions march
War veterans say sanctions are Zimbabwe's number one enemy and it is high time for Zimbabweans from all walks of life including the opposition MDC Alliance party to join hands in the planned march aga...Published: 17 Mar 2019 at 14:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Matematanda warned against dangers of spitting on Gukurahundi graves
What is now clear to all and sundry is that the noisy former Zanla member (Opasi) does not fully understand the scale of Matabeleland genocide and its sensitivity. Can the motor mouth be warned that M...Published: 15 Mar 2019 at 10:46hrs | | by Israel Dube
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 | | by Etiwel Mutero
'Compensate war collaborators'
DEFENCE and War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matematanda was yesterday grilled in Parliament over government's failure to vet war collaborators 38 years after the liberation war.The issue w...Published: 24 Nov 2018 at 08:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matemadanda demands more 'Thank You' for war vets
DEPUTY Defence minister Victor Matemadanda on Wednesday pleaded for more funding to be channelled to the war veterans' as a "Thank You" for their role during the liberation struggle.Matemadand...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 06:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF commends Mnangagwa over Cabinet appointments
ZANU-PF yesterday commended President Mnangagwa for appointing Cabinet Ministers on meritocracy, saying the new team has the capacity to drive his vision of modernising the country while creating weal...Published: 10 Sep 2018 at 06:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa silences critics with new Cabinet
A developmental Cabinet I would call it. Brilliant balance between old and trusted hands, technocrats and youthfulness. A well thought out Cabinet that balances the competing demands of the economy an...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 19:23hrs | 8 | by Lloyd Msipa
Matemadanda, Mutsvangwa dangerous cowards
Former MDC Bulilima East legislator Norman Mpofu has described war veterans leader Victor Matemadanda and Chris Mutsvangwa as dangerous cowards who betrayed Jabulani Sibanda when he pointed that Rober...Published: 25 Aug 2018 at 06:49hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Matemadanda erroneously believes he removed Robert Mugabe from power
Former Bulilima East legislator Norman Mpofu has said war veterans leader Victor Matemadanda erroneously believes he removed Robert Mugabe from power."He mistakenly believes those numbers who ...Published: 23 Aug 2018 at 07:29hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Big mouth Matemadanda must zip it: Names have no crimes
Big mouth war veterans Secretary General, Victor Matamatanda's mediocre suggestion that province names should be changed must not be allowed to last a second in the record book of good opinions....Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 12:57hrs | | by Israel Dube
'Zimbabwe opposition are noisy gongs'
ZIMBABWE National Liberation War Veterans' Association secretary-general has said opposition parties' claim that the political playing field was tilted in favour of Zanu-PF were from "empty gongs" who...Published: 28 May 2018 at 07:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Change Zimbabwe from Shona to Ndebele name before renaming provinces
Big mouth war veterans Secretary General, Victor Matamatanda's mediocre suggestion that province names should be changed must not be allowed to last a second in the record book of good opinions....Published: 27 May 2018 at 15:18hrs | 7 | by Israel Dube
MDC-T raps Matematanda for trying to defend Mnangagwa on Gukurahundi
MDC-T Bulawayo spokesperson Felix Mafa Sibanda has rapped the war veterans Secretry general Victor Matemadanda for trying to defend President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the involvement in the Gukurahundi m...Published: 27 May 2018 at 12:11hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Chamisa clueless on Matabeleland
Mthwakazi Republic Party has said the tribal monster that feeds the political appetite of the Harare parties is finally exposing it's expiring phase in Matabeleland after what it claimed was total cea...Published: 27 May 2018 at 11:59hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mugabe-led Zanu-PF would have lost elections, Matematanda says
CHANCES are very high that Zanu-PF would have lost next year's elections if it had fielded Robert Mugabe as its presidential candidate, a senior official said yesterday.Speaking during a Zanu-...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 04:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe headache for Mnangagwa
President Emmerson Mnangagwa faces his toughest test yet after taking over from Zimbabwe's former leader when he presides over Zanu-PF's first congress in the post Robert Mugabe era, with war veterans...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mutsvangwa has no say in Zanu-PF affairs'
ZIMBABWE National Liberation War Veterans' Association (ZNLWVA) vice chairman George Mlala has said Christopher Mutsvangwa and his allies are renegade freedom fighters and cannot speak on matters affe...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo slams 'dissident' war vets
Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo has slammed war veterans' leader Victor Matemadanda after he called for democracy in Zimbabwe, labelling him "dissident".During an interview with the Vo...Published: 21 Sep 2016 at 19:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
We cannot abandon Matabeleland restoration cause for meaningless regime change
Call it regime Change, removal of Mugabe from office or whatever it is, the uncomfortable truth is it will only serve the interests of the people of Mashonaland, Matebeles do not stand to benefit from...Published: 08 Aug 2016 at 07:14hrs | | by Israel Dube
Mugabe faces nasty endgame
JUDGING by his unprecedented attacks on war veterans in Harare yesterday, President Robert Mugabe - wobblingly on his 92-year-old legs - is clearly heading towards a nasty clash with the ex-combat...Published: 11 Jun 2016 at 16:07hrs | | by Dumisani Muleya
Army resistance shocks Mugabe
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe is reportedly still shocked and bruised by the fierce resistance which the military, the pillar of his strength, put up by using war veterans to protest the fierce crackdown by...Published: 29 Apr 2016 at 07:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, war vets meeting - live updates
1607: The meeting has come to an end and that concludes our updates.1604: Dube has finished his closing remarks.1554: Dube has expressed gratitu...Published: 07 Apr 2016 at 10:56hrs | | by Simiso Mlevu and Costa Mano
Mutsvangwa, Jabulani Sibanda share stage as War Vets meet
ZANU-PF Bulawayo Senator Angeline Masuku and War Veterans Association chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa yesterday shared a stage with expelled former party member and ex-freedom fighters leader Jabulani...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 07:11hrs | | by Dumisani Sibanda
'I was used as scapegoat,' says Mugabe's ally
THE Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association Bulawayo chapter yesterday held its inter-district meeting without any incident, a week after the meeting was cancelled over unclear circumsta...Published: 17 Jan 2016 at 08:59hrs | | by Lungile Tshuma
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