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Mutsvangwa's Mugabe coup remark opens can of worms
Observers have criticized Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa for speaking with a "forked tongue" following his recent remarks alleging that the late former President Robert Mugabe was removed...Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 15:19hrs | 1814 | by Staff reporter
Why is Zimbabwe's President Mnangagwa facing pressure to resign?
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa is facing what experts say is the biggest threat to his rule yet as a succession battle erupts ahead of general elections scheduled for 2028.Recent mano...Published: 04 Apr 2025 at 08:28hrs | 1387 | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe makes surprise appearance at Mnangagwa inauguration
Former President Robert Mugabe's widow Grace and daughter, Bona, hugged and exchanged pleasantries with President Emmerson Mnangagwa during swear-in on Monday in the latest public demonstration of a t...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 20:36hrs | 32 | by Staff reporter
Biti says state repression, corruption worse after Mugabe coup
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy president Tendai Biti says the November 2017 military coup that installed incumbent President Emmerson Mnangagwa in place of late former leader Robert ...Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
SB Moyo: Epitome of Zimbabwe revolution's finest cadre
Comrade Sibusiso Moyo, the General of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces who pronounced the demise of the four decade-old Mugabe dictatorship in November is no more. Comrade SB Moyo, what a journey we have t...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 06:21hrs | 15 | by Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa
SB Moyo's infamous Mugabe coup speech
Fellow Zimbabweans, following the address we made on 13 November 2017 which we believe our main broadcaster, ZBC and The Herald were directed not to publicise, the situation in our country has moved t...Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:48hrs | 4 | by Major-General SB Moyo ZDF spokesperson
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
Mugabe coup announcer emerges front-runner in Zanu-PF succession race
FOREIGN Minister Sibusiso Moyo has emerged as a centre of power in government and the ruling Zanu-PF party, and now fancies his chances of becoming Zimbabwe's next president.This was said by e...Published: 27 Aug 2020 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by newzimbabwe
Anti-Corruption chair promises to step aside if Mugabe coup announcer is target
ZIMBABWE Anti- Corruption Commission (Zacc) chairperson, Justice Loice Matanda-Moyo has promised to recuse herself if ever her husband, Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo was to become the subject...Published: 27 Jul 2019 at 16:24hrs | | by newzimbabwe
'Mugabe coup announcer was more humiliated than harmed'
United Kingdom-based Zimbabwean Joyce Mutengezanwa, who was part of protesters that tormented Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo and his delegation, claims the minister was more humiliated than ha...Published: 24 Jul 2019 at 08:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer will not divorce his wife
FOREIGN AFFAIRS Minister Sibusiso Moyo says he will not be arm-twisted to divorce his wife simply because she has been appointed to lead the country's anti-graft commission.Moyo's wife, Loice ...Published: 21 Jul 2019 at 10:26hrs | | by newzimbabwe
US condemns London attack on Mugabe coup announcer
US ambassador to Zimbabwe Brian Nichols has condemned attack on Foreign Affairs Minister Sibusiso Moyo by a group of angry Zimbabweans in London last week.Nichols, in an interview with journal...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 08:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Poll reforms complete by mid-2020, says Mugabe coup announcer
Government will amend the Electoral Act by mid next year in line with recommendations made by observer missions during last year's harmonised elections, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Ministe...Published: 15 Jul 2019 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer, delegation humiliated in UK
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo and his high-powered delegation were yesterday humiliated in the United Kingdom after angry protesters attacked them for "crippling" the country.Moyo, wh...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 08:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer talks up investment in Westminster
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo yesterday had lunch with the powerful Westminster Africa Business Group in London and invited them to grab investment opportuniti...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe sanctions now outdated, says Mugabe coup announcer
Sanctions imposed on Zimbabwe are outdated and should be removed as they benefit neither Zimbabwe nor the United States of America, the authors of the hostile policy, Foreign Affairs and International...Published: 13 Jul 2019 at 07:56hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Hostile UK reception for Mugabe coup announcer and Mangwana
Zimbabweans in London on Wednesday demonstrated against Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo, who is in London, United Kingdom on a four-day re-engagement programme to strengthen bilateral relations...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 09:00hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer paints rosy picture of Zimbabwe media
FOREIGN Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday said the government is keen on improving the media sector, claiming journalists' working environment has improved under the administration of President...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 08:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer talks up investment in Westminster
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Dr Sibusiso Busi Moyo yesterday had lunch with the powerful Westminster Africa Business Group in London and invited them to grab investment opportuniti...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 07:25hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Mugabe coup announcer' sets record straight on Zimdollar
Government insists that the ban on the use of multiple currencies will remain in place as it seeks to lower the cost of doing business and get the economy functioning again after decades of uncompetit...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup announcer off to London
As the Government presses full steam ahead with its engagement and re-engagement policy to restore broken ties with the wider world, Foreign Affairs and International Trade Minister Sibusiso Moyo will...Published: 10 Jul 2019 at 07:43hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga inspires African armies to commit coup'
The successful November 2017 coup that that ended 37 years of President Robert Mugabe's iron rule has inspired African armies to wade into the political arena analysts have said. The bloody co...Published: 26 Jun 2019 at 14:53hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mugabe coup announcer alive and back at work
Foreign Affairs minister Sibusiso Moyo yesterday made his first appearance in months following his battle with a kidney ailment last September.Moyo made a surprise appearance at the State Hous...Published: 04 Jan 2019 at 10:19hrs | 2 | by Staff rpeorter
Zimbabweans demand more after Mugabe coup
As the country marks exactly a year since the military rose up against former president Robert Mugabe by way of a popular coup, long-suffering Zimbabweans say they want President Emmerson Mnangagwa an...Published: 15 Nov 2018 at 13:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe drowns MDC Alliance
In politics one ought not to be so thirsty for opportunity that they drink from every cup handed to them. That is how Nelson Chamisa got poisoned by former President Robert Mugabe ahead of the just en...Published: 31 Jul 2018 at 11:54hrs | | by Caitlin Kamba
NPF-MDC is a dangerous alliance for Zimbabwe
For the last 9 months I have been walking around in a daze. Mugabe has gone, Mugabe has gone, Mugabe has gone! These words reverberate around my brain on an hourly basis. Having been beaten up by Muga...Published: 29 Jul 2018 at 09:01hrs | | by Innocent Dube
A vote for Chamisa, is a vote for Grace; Here is why...
The great Russian novelist and critic of the Soviet Union, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, once wrote that "once you get upstream, you are carried helplessly along." Unfortunately, Nelson Chamisa, desperate a...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 14:28hrs | 2 | by Anthony Mkondo
How Robert Mugabe is buying your vote
There are a few certainties in life. Firstly, and unfortunately, money talks.Secondly, Robert and Grace Mugabe need to be in positions of power at all cost, and will do almost anything to reta...Published: 06 Jul 2018 at 11:37hrs | 1 | by Mike Tawanda
Mugamisa: The Mugabe-Chamisa Monster Is Real
I don't believe people are born monsters. I don't believe in pure good or pure evil. I believe people are driven to do bad things by evil temptations. One of those evil temptations is the lure of powe...Published: 03 Jul 2018 at 11:51hrs | 1 | by Knowledge Moyo
Chiwenga applauds Mugabe coup
Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has applauded the November 2017 military intervention that toppled Zimbabwe's long time ruler Robert Mugabe pointing out that it stands out from the average African...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup was a matter of life and death, says Obert Mpofu
ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu yesterday said Operation Restore Legacy was a matter of life and death and if it had failed some people, including him, could have been hanged....Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:12hrs | | by Staff rpeorter
'Vote Mnangagwa to conclude Mugabe coup'
Operation Restore Legacy, which reached tipping point with a nationwide march on November 18 last year and paved way for the new political dispensation in Zimbabwe, will be concluded by voting for Pre...Published: 18 Jun 2018 at 07:01hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mangwana plotted anti-Mugabe coup
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's top ally and former government minister Paul Mangwana has revealed that he was among those who plotted the November coup against former President Robert Mugabe.M...Published: 02 May 2018 at 11:30hrs | 2 | by Newzimbabwe.com
Mugabe coup brings Mbare back to life
Like many ordinary Zimbabweans right now, Joy Mviro is adamant that things have changed for the better."We can now talk openly," she tells me confidently, as we stand outside the Edith Opperma...Published: 15 Apr 2018 at 11:20hrs | 5 | by The Guardian
War veterans' love-hate affair with Mugabe and his endgame
Last Friday's resign or else ultimatum to President Robert Mugabe - who eventually resigned on Tuesday - by the battle-hardened veterans of Zimbabwe's protracted, widespread and bitter struggle for li...Published: 01 Dec 2017 at 08:41hrs | 11 | by Gwinyai A Dzinesa, Political analyst
Grace Mugabe's rages set off army semi-coup
Nobody is safe from the rages of Zimbabwe's first lady, "Dr Amai" Grace Mugabe. There was the young South African model Grace lashed with extension cords. The 93-year-old President Robert Mugabe's lon...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 08:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe must resign, says Tsvangirai
Zimbabwe's main opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai has called on President Robert Mugabe to resign immediately in the interest of the people of Zimbabwe.He has also echoed other opposition ca...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 15:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe coup claim mystery
Mystery surrounds stunning claims emanating from South Africa that six Zimbabweans suspected of plotting to overthrow President Robert Mugabe and his Zanu-PF government are being held by that country'...Published: 29 Oct 2016 at 16:38hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Fears of Mugabe coup plot mount as Mnangagwa hosts political guests at his farm
A FIERCE storm is brewing within Zanu PF circles with some party hawks calling on Acting President Emmerson Mnangagwa to immediately stop hosting political guests at his Kwekwe farm as fears of a co...Published: 29 Dec 2014 at 08:42hrs | 1 | by Staff Reporter
'Mugabe coup mastermind' launches new political party
Alleged coup mastermind and former army captain Alfred Matapo has launched a new political party - United Crusade for Achieving Democracy (Ucad) - and insists that Zanu PF's days in government are nu...Published: 24 Aug 2014 at 09:21hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Mugabe coup story, News Agency might sue
Johannesburg - CENTRE for African Journalists (CAJ) News, the continent's premier news service provider, distanced itself from a report trending on social networks claiming Zimbabwean President Robert...Published: 01 Aug 2014 at 15:23hrs | | by Tintswalo Baloyi
Mnangagwa exposes Mugabe coup plan linked to Margaret Thatcher
Last week, The state controlled Sunday Mail revealed for the first time the letter that the former Rhodesian commander, Peter Walls wrote to the then British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher requesti...Published: 26 May 2013 at 06:48hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
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