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Japan injects US$7m towards demining activities in Zimbabwe
Japan has contributed a total of US$7 million towards demining activities in Zimbabwe since 2013, reinforcing its long-standing partnership with the country, Japanese Ambassador Shinichi Yamanaka reve...Published: 27 Jun 2025 at 18:39hrs | 201 | by Staff reporter
Garwe under fire for alleged land grab benefiting Mnangagwa ally
Local Government Minister Daniel Garwe is once again embroiled in a controversial land seizure scandal, this time accused of stripping residential stands from nearly 100 former Members of Parliament (...Published: 19 May 2025 at 09:15hrs | 311 | by Staff reporter
What triggered the call for the failed 31 March 'uprising' in Zimbabwe?
The old-age wisdom that facts are stubborn came alive last week after social media platforms and sections of the mainstream media went into a frenzy with sensational claims that the Parliament of Zimb...Published: 15 Apr 2025 at 18:22hrs | 2797 | by Jonathan Moyo
UK jets failed to shoot down Iranian missiles
The BBC understands that British military jets did not shoot down any Iranian ballistic missiles fired overnight. Nor did the Royal Navy Destroyer, HMS Duncan, fire any of her Sea Viper missiles....Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 17:17hrs | 2132 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa helicopter crash inquiry begins
The Ministry of Defence and the Civil Aviation Authority of Zimbabwe (CAAZ) have launched an inquiry into the cause of an Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) helicopter accident that occurred at Masvingo Aero...Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 08:20hrs | 216 | by Staff reporter
'Chivayo, MIF wanted 50% stake in Starlink deal'
Starlink reportedly declined a proposal for a 50% stake in its Zimbabwean operations from Wicknell Chivayo's Intratrek Zimbabwe (IMC) and the Mutapa Investment Fund (MIF) ahead of its launch in the co...Published: 07 Sep 2024 at 15:16hrs | 7511 | by Staff reporter
Black-listed govt suppliers face arrest
The Zimbabwean government is set to freeze the bank accounts of 51 suppliers blacklisted for illegal foreign currency dealings. Information, Publicity, and Broadcasting Services permanent ...Published: 03 Aug 2024 at 12:53hrs | 200 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa wants two more years via backdoor
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa and his close political allies are now weighing the best constitutional and legal options to secure an additional two years in power outside an election when his second te...Published: 20 May 2024 at 16:41hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Army Colonel in court for theft
A HARARE woman who masqueraded as a Zimbabwe National Army colonel and defrauded people of cash together with her husband has appeared in court.Anyway Mauru appeared before Harare magistrate M...Published: 22 Mar 2024 at 11:22hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean mercenaries fighting in Ukraine
FIVE Zimbabwean mercenaries are fighting for Ukraine, according to latest data released by the Russia Defence ministry, with one said to have since been killed on the battle field.But the figu...Published: 19 Mar 2024 at 12:56hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scared of gukurahundi, plots divisive constitutional coup
ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military reg...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:34hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army investigates Generals over corruption
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) says it is investigating allegations of corruption against three senior military commanders.In a statement to the media, and The NewsHawks in particular, the ...Published: 16 Feb 2024 at 15:05hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Top Zimbabwe army generals fired over housing corruption
THE Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), which brings together the country's army and air force wings, has fired three senior military commanders at the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) over a multi-million-dol...Published: 12 Feb 2024 at 13:49hrs | 17 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army modernisation a top priority
The modernisation of the Zimbabwe National Army's capabilities remains a top priority despite the prevailing economic challenges emanating from the illegally-imposed sanctions on the country by detrac...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
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
Mnangagwa moves to appease security forces
TREASURY has allocated 18% of the national budget to the security sector, ZW$10.8 trillion (US$1.9 billion), which is a large amount in peacetime, as President Emmerson Mnangagwa moves to appease the ...Published: 04 Dec 2023 at 15:07hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe, Nkomo receive statue honours
Two statues are set to be erected for the late former President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and the late Vice President, Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nyongolo Nkomo at two separate points in Harare in recognition of t...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 08:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
War veterans ready to lead Zanu-PF to victory
ZANU-PF secretary for War Veterans Affairs, Douglas Mahiya has said veterans of the liberation struggle are geared to lead Zanu-PF to victory in the coming harmonised elections as they are the backbon...Published: 09 May 2023 at 06:04hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt charms war collaborators ahead of 2023 general elections
GOVERNMENT has been frantically charming war veterans, ex-political prisoners, detainees, restrictees, non-combatant cadres and war collaborators by increasing pensions ahead of polls later this year,...Published: 18 Apr 2023 at 20:02hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war vets get 35 mines
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa allocated 35 mines to war veterans two years ago to empower the liberation war icons, but officials entrusted with the responsibility to handover the claims have not done so amid a...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga will never rule Zimbabwe while Karangas watch
"Dunderhead", is how the biggest Zimbabwe gold smuggling syndicate describes Zimbabwe Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. It is fascinating that even the criminals are aware of this fact. His below p...Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 08:12hrs | 769 | by Israel Dube
US 'change agent' meets Mnangagwa's minister
VISITING United States deputy assistant secretary of State in the Bureau of African Affairs, Ambassador Robert Scott yesterday paid a courtesy call on Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Tra...Published: 03 Mar 2023 at 06:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's new TV station knocked off air by technical fault
One of the newly-launched TV stations - Ke Yona TV - has been knocked off air by a fault.The Bulawayo-based station launched its full programming on February 1 on channel 398 on the Azam TV pl...Published: 06 Feb 2023 at 20:51hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Unknown Brigadier-General declared a national hero
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa yesterday conferred national hero status on Brigadier-General Epmarcus Walter Kanhanga (Rtd), who died on Thursday. He was 73.In a statement, the Chief Secretary to...Published: 05 Feb 2023 at 08:25hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must deploy border guards as extremism fears mount - report
WHILE Zimbabwe currently enjoys relative peace and harmony, the state should immediately deploy border guards at ports of entry and strengthen terrorism laws amid concern that the outbreak of the viol...Published: 05 Oct 2022 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
War vets feel economic heat
Zanu-PF's war veterans league has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to improve their welfare because they are suffering due to socio-economic challenges.War veterans' children were turned...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ex-defence official asked to explain wealth
THE National Prosecuting Authority continues to press those suspected of acquiring wealth through corruption and other criminal activity to explain how they have bought their houses and cars, with the...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:31hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Muchinguri under fire over army company operations
DEFENCE minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri was on Wednesday cornered by independent Norton MP Temba Mliswa over the opaque investments and business dealings of army-owned company Rusununguko Nkululeko ...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:06hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter
Mphoko spills beans on murky US$6bn deal
Former vice-president Phelekezela Mphoko has revealed how the army seized Zimbabwe's biggest platinum reserves, saying he was threatened with dismissal by unnamed generals for questioning the deal whi...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:10hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZANLA combatant awarded war-vets compensation dating back to 1997
A former combatant of the ZANLA guerrilla army, Marshall Rex Sibanda, has won a case in which he demanded to be registered as a war veteran and awarded compensation.Sibanda, a war veteran and ...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to compensate 160,000 more war veterans, ex-detainees
The Zimbabwe government plans to pay one-off gratuities and monthly pensions to a new batch of 160,000 war veterans, war collaborators and ex-political prisoners who missed out during the first round ...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:15hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
ZITF public day brings Bulawayo to a stand still
BULAWAYO virtually came to a standstill yesterday as thousands of people from all walks of life thronged the Zimbabwe International Exhibition Centre to witness the official opening of the 62nd editio...Published: 30 Apr 2022 at 16:13hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers' pay hike riles civil servants
A move to award soldiers a 37% pay increase at a time when the government is silent about reviewing civil servants salaries has drawn fire from some teachers' unions, who say it exposed double standar...Published: 17 Apr 2022 at 09:17hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Russia optimistic on Zimbabwe investments despite war
RUSSIA is bullish about its investment prospects in Zimbabwe despite the current economic restrictions triggered by the ongoing special military operation in Ukraine by Russia. The Zimbabwe Independen...Published: 25 Mar 2022 at 17:58hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Biological lab found in Ukraine
The Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova commented on the issue of biological activity in Ukrainian biological laboratories.We confirm that, during the special military operat...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:50hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe explains abstaining anti-Russia UN vote
THE international community must ceaselessly work towards facilitating dialogue between Russia and Ukraine to resolve the crisis in eastern Europe and not make unilateral decisions that seek to punish...Published: 04 Mar 2022 at 05:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Recent Supplies of Weapons to Ukraine by NATO Countries
Starting from the beginning of the year to the end of the second decade of February, nearly fifty military transport aircraft from various countries - USA, Great Britain, Canada, Poland, and Lithuania...Published: 24 Feb 2022 at 18:56hrs | 3 | by Press Release by the Ambassador of Russia to Zimbabwe and to Malawi
Mnangagwa contracts gimmick dismissed
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's efforts to tie his Cabinet ministers to performance contracts is an exercise in futility as long as the Treasury does not provide adequate funding for operations, commen...Published: 11 Feb 2022 at 16:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Thieves break into Defence Ministry offices
AUDACIOUS burglars smashed windows and broke into the offices of the ministry of Defence at Batanai Gardens, housing the war veterans portfolio, and made good their escape with goods valued at ZW$4 mi...Published: 09 Jan 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
War vets poised for better pay after hefty allocation
AFTER exerting pressure on the authorities through protests demanding an increase in their pension allowances, veterans of the armed liberation struggle got a big Christmas gift courtesy of the minist...Published: 27 Nov 2021 at 16:54hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga 'faction' targets Mnangagwa
A Zanu-PF faction said to be sympathetic to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is alleged to be behind several manoeuvres seen as targeted at President Emmerson Mnangagwa amid revelations that war ve...Published: 31 Oct 2021 at 07:12hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga 'faction' turns heat on Mnangagwa
A Zanu-PF faction said to be sympathetic to Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is alleged to be behind several manoeuvres seen as targeted at President Emmerson Mnangagwa amid revelations that war ve...Published: 24 Oct 2021 at 09:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's men had a Seychelles shell company
Zimbabwe's deputy chief secretary to the president and cabinet set up an offshore shell company in the Seychelles while serving as defence secretary, leaked financial documents show.Martin Rus...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:45hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Massive diamond plunder exposed in leak
DEPUTY chief secretary to the president and cabinet, Martin Rushwaya set up an offshore shell company in the Seychelles which was used to trade in diamonds while serving as defence secretary, leaked f...Published: 05 Oct 2021 at 06:28hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mystery over Zimbabwe army deal?
MYSTERY over President Emmerson Mnangagwa's adviser and shadowy businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei's murky purchase of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) partly-owned Pen East Mining's stake in platinum m...Published: 11 Jul 2021 at 20:43hrs | 24 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa tells security agencies to be vigilant
THE discovery of oil could pose a security threat to the country, which requires state security agencies to be always on high alert, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Mnangagwa made the ca...Published: 18 Jun 2021 at 13:09hrs | 18 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe govt calls for vigilance as oil firm makes headway
THE discovery of oil could pose a security threat to the country, which requires State security agencies to be always on high alert, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said.Mnangagwa made the ca...Published: 09 Jun 2021 at 07:17hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
ZPRA mobilises non-combatant cadres ahead of vetting exercise
The Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZPRA) Veterans Association is calling all its non-combatant cadres to come forward in preparation for an impending national vetting exercise.The assoc...Published: 25 May 2021 at 14:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt resurrects youth militia
GOVERNMENT yesterday announced the return of its infamous National Youth Service programme for its youth militia, also known as "Border Gezi graduates", with analysts saying the move was meant to inst...Published: 14 Apr 2021 at 06:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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