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Chiwenga's colourful vernacular reshapes Zimbabwean discourse
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, renowned for his pivotal role in the 2017 military coup that ended President Robert Mugabe's near-four-decade rule, is now making headlines for his vibrant and imp...Published: 08 Mar 2025 at 15:10hrs | 1697 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Mutsvangwa warns Malema and Kasukuwere
The Zanu PF National Spokesperson, Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa has warned both South Africa's opposition Economic Freedom Fighters leader, Julius Malema and then exiled G40 Kingpin, Saviour Kasu...Published: 08 Aug 2024 at 17:15hrs | 3506 | by Gideon Madzikatidze/Simbarashe Sithole
Malema calls on Zimbabwean youths to 'rise' against Mnangagwa
South African opposition leader Julius Malema on Monday called on young Zimbabweans to "rise against the tyranny" of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, arguing that only they can stop the Zanu-PF leader fr...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 11:20hrs | 1787 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga weakened to stop Mnangagwa's third term bid'
Julius Malema, leader of South Africa's Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) party, claims that Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who played a key role in the 2017 coup that removed Robert Mugabe, has b...Published: 06 Aug 2024 at 10:51hrs | 4339 | by Staff reporter
How Princess Zinkabi attempted a coup on King Lobhengula
Princess Zinkabi was King Mzilikazi's daughter. She was married to Mbiko the son of Madlenya Masuku. Mbiko was a powerful warrior who was respected in the northern Ndebele kingdom.Mbiko Masuku...Published: 12 Jan 2024 at 16:24hrs | 18 | by Thomas Sibanda
Mnangagwa's third-term bid up in smoke as army moves in
WHILE Zanu-PF is gradually inching towards a two-thirds parliamentary majority through a by-elections opened by CCC's Interim Secretary General Sengezo Tshabangu's recalls, the army has made strategic...Published: 22 Dec 2023 at 09:39hrs | 29 | 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 | 74 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers deface Mnangagwa posters
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces has dismantled the Cleveland Shooting Range in Harare amid allegations that some soldiers stationed there were defacing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's campaign posters in M...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 08:13hrs | 22 | by Staff reporter
Open letter to President Ramaphosa, Mnangagwa and HH
Open Letter from Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda a Constitutional and Human Rights law Practitioner and African Diaspora Global Network CEO The President of Zi...Published: 25 Jul 2023 at 09:50hrs | 5 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Mnangagwa takes the risk by sidelining army in polls
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken a huge political risk by sidelining the military - which has kept Zanu-PF in power directly since 2000 - from his dicey intelligency-driven presidential election...Published: 09 Jul 2023 at 14:26hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Bona Mugabe divorce, yet another Damascene moment for the republic
The world is not for honest people. I am convinced. Those who toil, break a sweat in various endeavours to make an honest living a...Published: 07 May 2023 at 07:22hrs | 62 | by Josiah Mucharowana in Pretoria
Mugabe's big warning to Chiwenga comes to pass
WITH the Zanu-PF congress set to confirm that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has outsmarted Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, the late former president Robert Mugabe's warning to the ex-military gene...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:55hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Military man weak in bed
A couple has been told to go separate ways as a result of their failure to coexist peacefully.Evidence Mandaza has dragged Onismas Nyazenga before Chief Chinamhora's traditional court yesterda...Published: 26 Sep 2022 at 14:48hrs | 2 | by Alice Mangwanda
Ukraine now a weapons hub for international crime
At last, the West is beginning to realise what a monstrous mistake the European countries made when they started deliveries of lethal weapons to Ukraine.For experts, the situation had been cle...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:47hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Storm over Mohadi ZEC appointment
A POLITICAL storm is raging over the controversial appointment of the daughter of Zanu-PF vice-president Kembo Mohadi (pictured) and the ruling party's Beitbridge senator Tambudzani Mohadi, Abigail Mi...Published: 17 Jul 2022 at 09:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Thousands bid farewell to Major-General Bhebe
THOUSANDS of people yesterday thronged the National Heroes Acre to bid farewell to national hero Major-General (Rtd) Sydney Vulindlela Bhebe, who died last Tuesday at a hospital in Harare.Maj-...Published: 21 Jun 2022 at 06:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa Davos trip a useless exercise
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's trip to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum (WEF) presents a platform to re-engage with the international community but that opportunity looks lost due to th...Published: 27 May 2022 at 20:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Jail ex-American soldier nabbed with gun at RGM Airport'
THE State yesterday said an ex-American soldier, who was nabbed at Robert Gabriel Mugabe International Airport intending to board a flight to Victoria Falls with a loaded pistol, should be jailed for ...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:44hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Ex-US soldier pleads guilty to possession of a firearm
A former American soldier has been found guilty of trying to board a flight at the Robert Gabriel International Airport with a firearm which was not lawfully declared.Ronald Johnson was convic...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 05:36hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga says Zimbabwe won't let a brotherly nation down
The just-ended SADC Extraordinary Heads of State and Government summit in Lilongwe, Malawi managed to galvanise the region's leadership to realise the importance of unity in dealing with issues of pea...Published: 14 Jan 2022 at 05:18hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa for Life President, says Chiwenga
VICE-PRESIDENT Constantino Chiwenga has unwittingly exposed the ruling Zanu-PF party's plans to use its parliamentary majority to railroad constitutional amendments and declare its leader Emmerson Mna...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:13hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Journalists detained at MDC Alliance anniversary commemorations
TWO journalists were Saturday detained by the military and police during the MDC –Alliance's 22nd anniversary commemorations held in Bulawayo.The two journalists Pamenus Tuso, a freelance an...Published: 13 Sep 2021 at 19:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Who is the next ZNA commander?
Zanu-PF internal political dynamics are expected to play out when President Emmerson Mnangagwa appoints the new Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) commander following the death of Edzai Absolom Chanyuka Chi...Published: 17 Jul 2021 at 15:30hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe secretly deploys key special forces to Mozambique
FOLLOWING a recent military siege on the northern Mozambican town of Palma by Islamist insurgents, killing dozens, including a Zimbabwean, while leaving a trail of bloodshed and destruction in its wak...Published: 17 Apr 2021 at 16:28hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Tendai Biti insults Chipinge people calls them witches
The tweet by honourable Tendai Biti of the MDC A to Professor Madhuku has shown that Tendai Biti is a tribalist who cannot be called a nationalist. Tendai Biti has exhibited his intoxication wit...Published: 09 Mar 2021 at 17:04hrs | 14 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Ministers Covid-19 deaths strike fear into the hearts of Zimbabwe's VIPs
This comes as Transport minister Joel Biggie Matiza died of Covid-19 today. Four ministers, including Matiza, have so far died. Others are Perrance Shiri, Ellen Gwaradzimba and Moyo. Former minister A...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:12hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo: Mugabe coup anchor turned face of diplomacy
"We wish to assure the nation that His excellency, the President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his family are safe and sound and their security is guaranteed," these were some of the words from the then M...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans mourn SB Moyo
The death of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Lieutenant General Sibusiso Busi Moyo (Rtd), yesterday morning from Covid-19 complications came as a great shock, President Mnangagwa said...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
President grieves for SB Moyo
President Mnangagwa was visibly shaken by the demise of the minister of Foreign Affairs cde Sibusiso B Moyo. He has described Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo as a devoted public servant, friend...Published: 20 Jan 2021 at 17:10hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Rushwaya gold case opens can of worms
THE dramatic arrest and subsequent prosecution of suspended Zimbabwe Miners Federation (ZMF) president Henrietta Rushwaya has lifted the lid on the cutthroat gold trafficking underworld dominated by t...Published: 06 Nov 2020 at 06:56hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF pleads for Sadc help in Mozambique
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has urged Sadc States to mobilise and assist Mozambique in its fight against an Islamic insurgency which has plunged the neighbouring country's northern region into a civil wa...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
2nd coup afoot to remove Mnangagwa by August 2020 and, as with 1st, to consolidate dictatorship
"So dire is the situation and boiling tensions in the corridors of power, that Mnangagwa is said to have pleaded for a political grace period of until August 2020 to step down, as a faction aligned to...Published: 27 Aug 2019 at 21:33hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Coup to remove Mnangagwa by August 2020 to consolidate dictatorship
"So dire is the situation and boiling tensions in the corridors of power, that Mnangagwa is said to have pleaded for a political grace period of until August 2020 to step down, as a faction aligned to...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 17:27hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
'Mnangagwa given deadline to vacate office as Zimbabwe President'
LONDON - President Emmerson Mnangagwa, is reportedly on the verge of becoming the shortest serving leader in the country's history, amid confirmed reports that the die-hard politician has been given a...Published: 26 Aug 2019 at 08:45hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe
It's the political system and the regime we need to remove not Mnangagwa…
Former President Robert Mugabe was removed in a soft coup but the system remained in power, it is not ED that we need to kick out but the whole system, Zimbabwe's politics needs a new breath of life o...Published: 29 Jul 2019 at 08:19hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
Restrain your wife - Mnangagwa told
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has been told to restrain his wife Auxillia following the leak of an audio clip where the First Lady is insulting a senior army official. Auxillia is heard in an 8...Published: 16 Jul 2019 at 11:09hrs | 1 | by Methusi Ncube
Crackdown alarms Zimbabwean activists
Rights organisations are concerned about what they say is a crackdown against opposition activists by the government of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.They cite the recent arrest of seven activi...Published: 09 Jun 2019 at 09:42hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe to Mnangagwa: From frying pan into fire?
A time comes when overwhelmed Africans desperately desire to see a change in leadership and don't pay rapt attention to the details of the next leadership provided it is a new face. This despe...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 13:51hrs | 1 | by Omolola Lipede
Mnangagwa's military shake-up: smoke and mirrors
THE retirement of four military generals and their immediate reassignment to Foreign Affairs has been widely interpreted as President Emmerson Mnangagwa moving to coup-proof his regime by getting rid ...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 14:57hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
3 reasons why it's all going wrong for Mnangagwa
HOW did things turn so bad for Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa?He won the disputed July 30 2018 elections, but even before the results were officially announced, protesters were being ...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 07:09hrs | | by Stephen Chan
Robert Mugabe is gone, but the army remains
Robert Mugabe is gone, but the army remains at the centre of our political life. Until that changes, the violence won't stop.Like the fleeting blossom of Jacaranda trees in spring, faith in the go...Published: 29 Jan 2019 at 08:39hrs | | by Fadzayi Mahere
Why Matabeles must not die for Zimbabwe
Matebeles do not owe Zimbabweans or Shona people anything. We are fade up with Zimbabwe's endless political problems. Zimbabweans/ Shona people must learn to fight their own battles from now on. As Ma...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 10:17hrs | 16 | by Israel Dube
Cry my beloved Zimbabwe . . . as country is closed for business
Once open for business, Zimbabwe is closed for business.Shops are closed, people are scared and companies are closing just as is the democratic space that President Emmerson Mnangagwa opened u...Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 12:25hrs | 11 | by Staff rpeorter
The death of Tongogara as told by Lookout Masuku and Dumiso Dabengwa.
Josiah Magama Tongogara : The interview that cost his life:This excerpt was taken from a Rhodesian Combat Pilot who played a pivotal role in the Cease Fire Agreement and the formation of the N...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 10:29hrs | 1044 | by Social media
Post-poll violence probe team gets thumbs up
THE seven-member Commission of Inquiry into the violence that occurred in Harare early this month will deliver on its mandate as it consists of people of integrity who cannot be compromised, analysts ...Published: 31 Aug 2018 at 06:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Military increases presence in villages'
LOCAL political think-tank, Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI), has claimed that contrary to denials by public officials, a huge number of soldiers had, indeed, been deployed in most villages across t...Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 07:14hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
'If we do not agree on ballot papers there will be no elections' - Chamisa
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa said they will be no elections if his party members are not invited to witness printing of ballot papers.Addressing supporters in Mazowe Nort...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 09:45hrs | | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa plots Mnangagwa, Zec showdown
OPPOSITION MDC-T and MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa yesterday said he would today confront President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chairperson Priscill...Published: 02 Jul 2018 at 08:01hrs | 2 | by Simbarashe Sithole
Chamisa rebufs Grace Mugabe's overtures
It has emerged that MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has rebuffed ousted former president Robert Mugabe and his wife Grace's overtures for the trio to work together - as the former first family fran...Published: 20 Jun 2018 at 15:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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