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Mnangagwa's henchman trying to place an operative at Econet?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's henchman, Owen 'Mudha' Ncube, recently wrote a letter to Econet Zimbabwe's Gweru branch trying to impose a candidate to a none existing vacancy.This came to light af...Published: 02 Feb 2024 at 09:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Urgent Call for adoption of Regional Counter-Terrorism Strategy by member states
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) region has long been considered a safe haven from the threat of terrorism. However, recent developments, particularly the insurgency in Mozambique, ha...Published: 23 Sep 2023 at 21:13hrs | | by Nicholas Ncube
Mnangagwa gives his henchman another lease of life
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reinstated Owen 'Mudha' Ncube, a key associate, to a prominent government role, assigning him the position of Midlands Provincial Affairs minister. This marks Ncube's ...Published: 11 Sep 2023 at 21:51hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ally vows 'worse than 2008' violence against opposition
Former state security minister and Zanu-PF top official, Owen Mudha Ncube has threatened opposition leader Nelson Chamisa and his party with violence he vowed shall be worse than the bloodbath experie...Published: 20 Oct 2022 at 21:08hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean politicians must walk their peace talk
THE recent rise in hate speech spewed on a daily basis by politicians and the attendant violence that has gripped the nation provide grim prospects for peace in the coming elections.President ...Published: 19 Sep 2022 at 06:00hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF declares war on CCC
FORMER State Security minister Owen Ncube yesterday described the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as an enemy of the ruling party and encouraged Zanu-PF supporters to defend the par...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 06:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF says enemy is Nelson Chamisa's CCC
FORMER State Security minister Owen Ncube yesterday described the opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) as an enemy of the ruling party and encouraged Zanu PF supporters to defend the party a...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:02hrs | | by Staff Reporter
'We'll get him dead or alive': Reid's Mpiranya trail to Zimbabwe
A BESPECTACLED white man of medium height probably in his early 60s walks into the hotel restaurant where I am seated outside on patio couches basking in the sunshine while surfing social media platfo...Published: 22 May 2022 at 11:20hrs | 10 | by Dumisani Muleya
Zimbabwe a pariah state that can't even be trusted by fellow African countries!
Can African countries genuinely trust the rogue Zimbabwe regime?In fact, should African nations be so foolhardy and naive as to place their trust in a proven pariah state as Zimbabwe?W...Published: 17 May 2022 at 16:41hrs | 7 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Zec abandons polling station at Zanu-PF torture base
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) will no longer be using a polling station in Kwekwe situated in an area where there is a traditional Zanu-PF torture base manned by the party's violent terror s...Published: 04 May 2022 at 20:30hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa probes by-election loss
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa last week dispatched his politburo and central committee members to Kwekwe to hear first-hand reasons why the party lost the crucial Kwekwe Central and Mbizo parliamentary...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa challenged to disband terror groups in Kwekwe
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been challenged to disband terror groups in Kwekwe, stop giving impunity to perpetrators of politically motivated violence and halt the needless bloodshed, particularl...Published: 09 Apr 2022 at 11:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's backyard hit by fresh divisions
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's backyard, the Midlands province, has been hard hit by fresh turmoil after losing three crucial seats in last week's by-elections with rival factions blaming and threaten...Published: 03 Apr 2022 at 08:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Sink or swim for Chamisa
TO sink or swim is the question in this Saturday's by-elections as the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) faces a stern test of political strength where there is everything to fight for i...Published: 27 Mar 2022 at 07:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF terror gangs haunt Kwekwe
AT the turn of the new millennium, dozens of Zanu-PF supporters turned up at a newly built lodge, Jessie Gardens and the guest of honour was Owen Ncube, better known by his moniker Mudha Mugabe then....Published: 05 Mar 2022 at 17:16hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa rally murder: 11 out
ELEVEN of the 16 youths who were arrested in connection with the murder of a Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporter at a rally in Kwekwe, Midlands province, on Sunday have been released amid re...Published: 02 Mar 2022 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF activists deface CCC candidate posters
THE Nelson Chamisa-led opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party has accused Zanu-PF activists of defacing its campaign posters ahead of the two parties' star rallies in Kwekwe this weekend...Published: 26 Feb 2022 at 18:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mudha still using state security aides
FORMER State Security minister Owen "Mudha" Ncube (pictured), who was last month fired by President Emmerson Mnangagwa for allegedly fanning division and Zanu-PF factionalism in the Midlands province ...Published: 05 Feb 2022 at 19:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's enforcer bites the dust again
FORMER State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube's political woes worsened at the weekend after he lost the Zanu-PF Midlands provincial vice chairmanship, on which he had imposed himself, and was shunt...Published: 17 Jan 2022 at 06:42hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fires his enforcer as State Security Minister
President Emmerson Mnangagwa sacked Owen Mudha Ncube as state security minister on Monday as Zanu-PF continues to feel the tremors from its divisive provincial elections concluded two weeks ago....Published: 10 Jan 2022 at 19:08hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Nasty factional fights boil in Mnangagwa's backyard
INTENSE inter-factional fights to control President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province Midlands, pitting two rival groups backing State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube and the incumbent chairperson...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:56hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
BREAKING: Mozambican named amongst top 5 global terrorists
United States of America Secretary of State Anthony J Blinken has announced the designation of five terrorist leaders in Africa. Among them is Bonomade Machude Omar of Mozambique. According to...Published: 07 Aug 2021 at 09:47hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado How did it start?
No human eye has seen such a level of cruelty perpetrated on another human being by another human. The gruesome nature of the killings rape and suffering caused by these ISIS rebels is indeed knee sha...Published: 15 Apr 2021 at 07:57hrs | | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Mozambique insurgency a wake up call for SADC
The insurgency in Mozambique is a wake-up call to the SADC region. The region has ignored the presence of Islamic State Central Africa Province ISCAP in DRC. The region has also ignored the presence o...Published: 05 Apr 2021 at 19:50hrs | | by Silent Fox
The US has no free gifts
As a proud pan-African, on hearing that Mozambique invited the US Marines to train its military on how to fight against the Ansar Al-Sunnar terrorists who have invaded, terrorised, and displaced the p...Published: 29 Mar 2021 at 22:34hrs | | by Prosperity Mzila
Mnangagwa to meet Zanu-PF security dept as he bids to fix bickering party
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 19:01hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moves in to end DCC chaos
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is stepping in to try and end the widening fallout from Zanu-PF's chaotic district coordinating committee (DCC) elections, which have raised political temperatures higher ...Published: 14 Dec 2020 at 07:46hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
The mystery of the Mnangagwa gold mill
NOTHING is wrong when a president deals in gold, ordinarily. But, when you hear that President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his family run a gold mill, you struggle to convince yourself that everything is r...Published: 08 Nov 2020 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Violence erupts in Mash Central as ZANU PF internal wars escalate
The battle for Mazowe DCC Chairmanship has reached another level with reports of violence now before the courts. ZANU PF Concession District youth official Paul Kasvosve was severely assaulted by a Ka...Published: 02 Nov 2020 at 09:48hrs | | by Claris Magwenzi Freelance journalist
Zanu-PF bigwigs in a state of shock
MANIC Zanu-PF youths wielding machetes recently ran amok in the Midlands - assaulting party bigwigs and police officers, while also sowing terror among supporters of the former liberation movement in ...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 17:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe wary of Mozambique insurgency
ZIMBABWE is closely monitoring the unfolding armed conflict in neighbouring Mozambique, but a possible military intervention will only be guided by the collective SADC Troika decision, Minister of Def...Published: 30 Oct 2020 at 06:17hrs | | 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 | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Security Minister left exposed by State Agents, claims Jonathan Moyo, Zhuwao
FORMER cabinet ministers Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao have made sensational claims against National Security Minister Owen Ncube alleging Special Forces (SAS) recently, and on two occasions, broke...Published: 25 Sep 2020 at 07:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
MDC youths on high alert
MDC youths in Kwekwe district yesterday said they were on high alert following recent cases of torture and abductions in the city, which saw one opposition party member being murdered by a suspected Z...Published: 05 Sep 2019 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff reporter
Deaths, abductions and terror in Mnangagwa's backyard
Antony Kadozo, a veteran of Zimbabwe's liberation war, is struggling to come to terms with the death of his son, who was allegedly killed by Zanu-PF youths.The 65-year-old Kwekwe resident said...Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths turn Parly office into torture base
A ZANU-PF youth group known as Al Shabaab has grabbed Mbizo parliamentary constituency offices in Kwekwe amid reports that they are now using it as a torture base for opposition MDC supporters and for...Published: 28 Aug 2019 at 07:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nhlanhla Ndiweni reveals poisoning fears
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday visited jailed Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni at Khami Maximum Security Prison on the outskirts of Bulawayo, where the traditional leader revealed he feared for his...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 18:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Man murdered outside MDC office
Police are investigating after a man was killed outside a constituency office of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in Kwekwe on Friday.Officers responded after reports of a man lying de...Published: 23 Aug 2019 at 17:51hrs | | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa's minister clashes with CIO boss
Minister of State for Provincial Affairs in the Midlands province Larry Mavhima is strongly set on a collision course with Minister of State Security in charge of the dreaded Central Intelligenc...Published: 23 Jul 2019 at 12:31hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
'War Lords to take over Zimbabwe'
Zimbabwe will soon be run by War Lords who will drive the country to the level where Somalia is, political analysts have said. South Africa based political analyst Fortune Mlalazi said the lea...Published: 19 Jul 2019 at 10:17hrs | 6 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Joint police, army operation to flush out illegal miners raises stink
The police and army recently mounted a joint operation to flush out violent illegal miners throughout the country, but the officers have quickly seized the opportunity to make dirty money, it has been...Published: 02 Jun 2019 at 09:10hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US foreign policy prefers Kenya
Kenya is "one of our key friends in Africa - nay, in the world," said a confident, pleased United States (US) assistant secretary of State for African Affairs, Tibor P Nagy, at a May 9 briefing in Was...Published: 29 May 2019 at 08:03hrs | 1 | by Pearl Matibe
Minister fouls Mnangagwa's plans fouled by Owen Ncube
ZIMBABWE's efforts to attract much-needed investment are being undermined by a fatal combination of executive folly and policy inconsistencies - that have seen international investors being warned aga...Published: 22 Apr 2019 at 17:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Machete terror gangs spreading mayhem in Mnangagwa's home province
Murder and violence are spreading in the mineral-rich Midlands - President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province - as armed militias reportedly sponsored by politicians wreak havoc with impunity....Published: 07 Apr 2019 at 09:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Information as a threat to national security'
We publish the full presentation by the Minister of Information, Publicity and Broadcasting Services Minister Senator Monica Mutsvangwa at the Zimbabwe National Defence University in Harare last week....Published: 20 Jan 2019 at 09:13hrs | | by Senator Monica Mutsvangwa
Mutsvangwa calls for laws regulating social media
Developing countries should mitigate the negative effects of information proliferation by creating laws that regulate social media usage, entrenching accountability and sanctions for offenders, a Cabi...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 11:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Militia gangs in ZANU PF: Ex-member speaks out
A former ZANU PF activist Setfree Mafukidze has for the first allowed Zimbabweans to peep into the dreaded militia gangs that are used by the party to inflict violence on opposition member...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 15:40hrs | 4 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa already under arrest?
DEFIANT MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has said he is not fazed by arrest threats made by security service chiefs saying he is ready for whatever the Mnangagwa regime is planning."Let them do what ...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 12:21hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Chamisa demands Mnangagwa to reverse the appointment of Owen Ncube
The absence of an Act of Parliament regulating the operational use of intelligence services in Zimbabwe is a concern for the MDC.The Army is regulated through the Defence Act, the Zimbabwe Rep...Published: 27 Sep 2018 at 17:37hrs | | by MDC Communications
Zanu-PF linked terror group 'fleeces' kombi operators
A GROUP of Zanu PF supporters in Kwekwe led by Midlands provincial youth secretary for education, Tapuwa Muto, is allegedly fleecing commuter omnibus operators at the Kwekwe city interchange rank, for...Published: 26 Sep 2018 at 11:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
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