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Zanu PF never helped ANC/Umkhonto wesizwe during Apartheid: MRP tells Ramaphosa
MTHWAKAZI REPUBLIC PARTY has corrected South African President Cyril Ramaphosa for thanking Zanu PF and Zimbabwe for helping South Africa during the liberation war indicating that it was not Zan...Published: 30 Sep 2024 at 22:35hrs | 1772 | by Stephen Jakes
Zanu-PF - govt conflation deepens
CONFLATION between Zanu-PF as a political party and the government spheres is deepening as shown by the increasing involvement in state activities by former vice-president Kembo Mohadi, The NewsHawks ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:05hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's scapegoat for governance failure
AHEAD of the 2023 polls, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government - after largely failing to fulfill its 2018 election promises - has found a scapegoat to justify its dismal bad governance record by ...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:04hrs | 11 | by Brenna Matendere
Lupane East by-election and the need for political reforms
ZIMBABWE staged three by-elections in Matabeleland North last weekend, an opposition stronghold since the formation of the MDC in 1999, but all three were won by Zanu-PF, bringing under the spotlight ...Published: 10 Aug 2019 at 11:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
US places Zimbabwe 'killer' army general on sanctions
The United States has slapped former army general Ansleem Sanyatwe with sanctions for human rights violations during the 1 August 2018 violence where soldiers shot and killed six people while 35 were ...Published: 01 Aug 2019 at 15:21hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Jacob Zuma reads Joshua Nkomo book
Former South African is reading the late Zimbabwean Vice President Joshua Nkomo's book The Story of My Life.Nkomo, one of Zimbabwe's liberation icon's first published the book in 1984 while in...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga tussle exposed
THE explosive audio leak between First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa and 1 Presidential Guard Infantry Battalion commander Samson Murombo brings to light the escalating brinkmanship between President Emmers...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We don't eat Nationalism' says Mthwakazi President
So many people in Zimbabwe particularly shonas and some of our Ndebele speaking people do not really understand or comprehend with what is meant by the term "Nationalism". To Shonas, nationalism means...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Mqondisi Moyo
'Mthuli Ncube blocks US$5bn deal'
UNITED Kingdom-based financial services consultancy ICG Capital and Finance Corp has singled out Finance minister Mthuli Ncube as the biggest obstacle stalling the finalisation of a US$5 billion debt ...Published: 10 May 2019 at 13:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt in new US$5bn funding negotiations
A UNITED Kingdom-based international financial consultancy firm, ICG Capital and Finance Corps Limited — in partnership with five top-tier United States banks — has tabled a US$5 billion debt rest...Published: 03 May 2019 at 07:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nigerian military ruler says it was a military coup in Zimbabwe
FORMER Nigerian president Olusegun Obasanjo, who served as a millitary leader between 1976 and 1979, says Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa seized power through a millitary coup that toppled his...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's utterances have Mugabe's yesteryear echoes
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent utterances that government would take unspecified action on lawyers providing free legal advice and doctors voluntarily attending to victims of last month's viole...Published: 22 Feb 2019 at 09:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Govt lies about ICJ intervention in 'Public Violence Cases'
The Government of Zimbabwe, through the Deputy Minister of Information and Publicity, Nick Mangwana, has blatantly lied it was not aware that International Commission of Jurist (ICJ) had intervened an...Published: 08 Feb 2019 at 19:59hrs | | by Advocate Walter Nyabadza
Army morale lowest as economy implodes
MORALE within the Zimbabwe Defence Forces has reportedly hit rock bottom, the lowest ever since the country's Independence in 1980, amid reports that the troops are disgruntled over the rising cost of...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 14:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Military looms large in Zimbabwe power matrix
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been extensively restructuring the army ever since assuming power through a millitary coup in 2017, confirming that the security apparatus remains deeply steeped in th...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa must release August 1 killings inquiry report'
RECENT disclosures by presidential spokesperson George Charamba that the report by the commission of inquiry into the August 1 shootings by the millitary is for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's eyes "on...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe ranks lowly on investment
ZIMBABWE attracted US$470 million in foreign direct investment (FDI) in 2018, making it one of the least attractive investment destinations in the Southern African Development Community.This c...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 09:38hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's anti-graft fight unconvincing
FOR splurging £16 million (US$21 million) on pricey jewellery and vintage wines over a decade, a British woman became the first target of a law seeking to dissuade criminals from enjoying their ill-g...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 12:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri urges millitary college to reserve quarter for women
A total of 41 officers from the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) have received certificates after completing a Joint and Command Staff Course aimed at equipping them with knowledge on aspects of staff wo...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 20:00hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa strips Chiwenga's millitary power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has stripped Vice President of his powers to have control over the military.The gazetted statutory instrument 214 of 2018 said: His Excellency ...Published: 02 Nov 2018 at 10:31hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Motlanthe Commission secretariat gobbles US$300 000
THE secretariat of the Commission of Inquiry set up by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to probe circumstances leading to the fatal shootings of six civilians by the millitary on August 1 in the aftermath...Published: 25 Oct 2018 at 15:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Chiwenga 'rift' may paralyse govt
UNDERLYING tensions between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and one of his deputies, retired General Constantino Chiwenga, over power struggles, risks distracting the new administration from tackling a p...Published: 07 Sep 2018 at 07:37hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's New Cabinet?
COCKPIT PRESIDENT --- ED DEPUTY PRESIDENT --- CHIWENGA DEPUTY PRESIDENT --- KHAYA MOYO CHAIRMAN --- OPPAH KASHIRI ...Published: 28 Aug 2018 at 07:02hrs | | by Noble Tawanda Ngara
Millitary Juntas cannot be removed through votes or courts
Is there anyone in troubled Zimbabwe who still believes that Mnangagwa/Chiwenga regime is a democracy? You better awaken from your dream and face reality before it is too late. Zimbabwe is now a milit...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 15:13hrs | | by Israel Dube
Chiwenga represents the 'New Disorder' not New Dispensation
While the nation awaits eagerly in anticipation of a typical Chief Justice Maraga (Kenya's Chief Justice) style and caliber of overturning presidential election results from our apex court on Tuesday,...Published: 20 Aug 2018 at 08:03hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
Chamisa, Mnangagwa battleground shifts to ConCourt
AS Zimbabweans anxiously await the outcome of the presidential election petition by MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa at the Constitutional Court (ConCourt), which is set for next Wednesday, the two ...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 15:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Think-tank warns of prolonged social unrest in Zimbabwe
BMI Research, a Fitch think-tank, has warned of prolonged social unrest and slow pace of economic reforms owing to the disputed outcome of polls held last month in which President Emmerson Mnangagwa w...Published: 10 Aug 2018 at 11:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Death toll from Harare millitary killings rises to 6
The death toll from yesterday's millitary killings in Harare has risen to six, after three more people died from injuries sustained during the skirmishes.Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) Spokesp...Published: 02 Aug 2018 at 18:27hrs | | by Staff Reporter
30 reasons why Zimbabweans should show Mnangagwa the RED card on july 30
With just some few days and hours before the nation votes in the most anticipated polls since the removal of the former President Robert Mugabe and also the death of the former Trade Unionist Morgan T...Published: 26 Jul 2018 at 10:10hrs | | by Knowledge Hakata
Mnangagwa's nasty fallout with cleric
Zanu-PF supporters aligned to a faction sympathetic to President Emmerson Mnangagwa attempted to elbow out his neighbour Reverend Isaac Tititi Moyo - with whom he has had a nasty fallout - from a farm...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 14:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military evicts Mnangagwa's elderly cleric at gunpoint
ZIMBABWE'S military, enforcing a government order, has forcibly evicted President Emmerson Mnangagwa's elderly cleric neighbour - at gunpoint - from a well-developed and equipped 250-hectare farm on t...Published: 13 Jul 2018 at 08:31hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nkosana Moyo's unorthodox campaign plan unpacked
SITTING outside a restaurant overlooking the immaculate greenery of Royal Harare Golf Club, the Zimbabwe Independent news crew can see a group of professional golfers going about their practice sessio...Published: 22 Jun 2018 at 14:49hrs | 1 | by Tinashe Kairiza
'Army has no choice, will salute me,' says Chamisa
MDC Alliance presidential candidate, Nelson Chamisa has told his supporters that the country's securocrats could find themselves with no choice, but to salute him if he wins this year's presidential r...Published: 14 May 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe risks destroying own legacy by making unchecked rantings
The history of Zimbabwe will never ever be complete without the mentioning of the name of its first Executive Prime Minister and then President, Cde R.G Mugabe, never!!! He fronted the liberat...Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 08:56hrs | | by Prof Luke Mbune Correspondent
'Ndebele Nationalits Leaders a disgrace'
Mthwakazi Republic Party President Mqondisi Moyo has said the so called Ndebele nationalists have disgraced to their fellow Ndebeles as some of them have connived with the outsiders to trample on thei...Published: 25 Feb 2018 at 08:46hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mnangagwa showing chameleon tendencies - MRP President
Mthwakazi Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has said President Emmerson Mnangagwa's recent insinuations on Sputniks news agency in Russia, that Robert Mugabe made no mistake is a big insult to the p...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 07:31hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
To hell with your National Peace and Healing Commission Mnangagwa - MRP President.
Mthwakazi Republic Party leader Mqondisi Moyo has told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to to to hell with his National Peace and Healing Commission if he does not acknowledge wrong doing through his part...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 08:04hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Grace Mugabe was in charge of Zimbabwe
war veterans leader Chris Mutsvangwa has reportedly said that the millitary's intervention, which resulted in former president Robert Mugabe relinquishing power two weeks ago was a "counter coup" to f...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 06:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo fingered?
RODNEY Dangarembizi, the man Zanu-PF Youth Affairs Secretary Kudzanai Chipanga accused of originating the statement that denigrated Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantino Chiwenga and t...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 05:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
'We're in control,' says millitary as gunfire erupts near Mugabe home
There are reports that the military in Harare has said: "We are in control." This comes after reports of explosions and gunfire near the University of Zimbabwe in the capital. A Harare re...Published: 15 Nov 2017 at 02:19hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mutambara writes new book, 'The Rebel In Me'
The book titled 'The Rebel In Me' by Agrippah Mutambara is his latest memoir of an edition where he investigates and looks in retrospect at the true story of his life as a young commander in the trove...Published: 04 Sep 2014 at 13:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe commends Zimbabwe military academy
President Robert Mugabe has commended the Zimbabwe Military Academy in Gweru for its commitment in training competent and patriotic officers of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces.Mugabe made the rema...Published: 11 Jul 2012 at 18:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
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