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Zimbabwe's foreign funded CSOs under siege from spooks
At least 94% of Zimbabwe's civic society organisations (CSOs) are facing heightened surveillance and infiltration by state agents, according to a new report, signaling a growing crackdown on civic and...Published: 01 Jan 2025 at 10:21hrs | 1902 | by Staff reporter
Rugeje caught up in bar CIO hunt for rights activist
Days before a summit of regional leaders, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's shock troops armed with AK47s stormed a bar where a retired top general and Zanu-PF politburo member was drinking on Wednesday,...Published: 09 Aug 2024 at 08:00hrs | 3476 | by Staff reportrer
US presence in the SADC region spooks African countries
The recent statements by General Michael Langley, Commander of the United States Africa Command (AFRICOM), claiming that the US approach in Africa is "African-led but US-enabled," have heightened anxi...Published: 28 Jun 2024 at 07:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
South African GNU and Zimbabwe economy
GNU as portfolio controlThis week, South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was inaugurated for his second and last term in office under the current Constitution.What is now awaited is...Published: 22 Jun 2024 at 11:28hrs | 5 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Mnangagwa spooks' 'dirty' deals exposed
A recent report by The Sentry sheds light on the Central Intelligence Organisation's (CIO) secret revenue streams, which fund activities like Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ), alleged to have influen...Published: 07 Jun 2024 at 09:54hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
The Chemist Siziba and Oasis bar story
It is hard to find a patron who would mostly and consistently drink in one bar for 44 years - a whole generation; a lifetime.Yet Chemist Siziba, a local businessman and socialite, did. Before ...Published: 14 Mar 2024 at 17:01hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Spooks storm CCC's press briefing; grab speech from party spokesperson
THE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) press conference addressed by the party's spokesperson Promise Mkwananzi has been disrupted by unknown men.The address held at the Sapes Trust in Harare...Published: 26 Aug 2023 at 10:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints new CIO fixer to consolidate grip on power
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has moved to re-assert his vice-like grip on Zimbabwe's state security service, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), which is critical to his power consolidation a...Published: 28 May 2023 at 08:42hrs | 198 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's spooks in massive resignations
The Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) has been hit by massive resignations with officers alleging that working conditions have deteriorated immensely.The CIO is superintended over by a S...Published: 23 Apr 2023 at 07:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CIO spooks on the prowl
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:19hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF captures Zimbabwe's private media?
FORMER Education minister, David Coltart has accused the ruling party, Zanu-PF, and its leadership of infiltrating the country's privately-owned news outlets to muzzle dissent.A vociferous gov...Published: 22 Jan 2023 at 13:06hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
CIO spooks on the prowl at Trevor Ncube's AMH?
A LEAKED Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) report on the dire situation at privately-owned publishing house Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) exposes the rot at the company, accentuated by spooky manoe...Published: 21 Jan 2023 at 09:42hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa fires 17 top CIOs
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday fired 17 top State security operatives believed to have facilitated the meeting between former President Robert Mugabe and opposition National People's Party lea...Published: 12 Jan 2023 at 09:49hrs | 26 | by Staff reporter
Spooks assault Chamisa's activist
A MEMBER of the opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) in Zaka, Tafara Chimwaradze, was on Monday briefly abducted and assaulted by known Central Intelligence Organisation operatives while at...Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mysterious AK-47 assault rifles were smuggled for Zimbabwe Presidential Guard?
THE deepening mystery behind the recent botched smuggling of AK-47 assault rifles and scores of ammunition magazines through Beitbridge border post - now playing out in the courts - has been unravelle...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 15:20hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa 'resurgence' ‘spooks jittery' Zanu-PF
The apparent momentum gained by the Nelson Chamisa led Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) ahead of the crucial March 26 by-elections has sent some Zanu-PF officials into panic mode amid alleged...Published: 20 Feb 2022 at 09:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
US Embassy sweats to save Chamisa's sinking ship
The United States Embassy in Harare has reactivated its propaganda machinery ahead of the forthcoming by-elections slated for March 26.After a notable lull in propaganda tweets since the depar...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:40hrs | 14 | by Hosia Mviringi
Ramaphosa's grip on state security machinery targets 2022 re-election
PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement of sweeping changes to the Cabinet last week may have appeared radical but did little to dispel the notion that he is paralysed by a commitment to protracted c...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 16:08hrs | 1 | by Cyril Madlala
Lands minister distances self from Malunga farm seizure
LANDS and Agriculture minister Anxious Masuka has distanced himself from the seizure of a farm belonging to prominent human rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga and his business partners, with his juniors ...Published: 26 Jun 2021 at 15:26hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chilonga leaders living in fear
CHILONGA community leaders who are at the forefront of resisting goverment's decision to forcibly evict them from their ancestral lands to pave way for commercial production of lucerne grass say they ...Published: 07 Mar 2021 at 07:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Return of indigenisation spooks the market
This has spooked investors who have always thought mining provides the most attractive prospects - a silver lining - in Zimbabwe's dark economic cloud.Mining was a safe haven for investors see...Published: 23 Jan 2021 at 17:09hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Spooks investigate US$45m CAPS deal
ZIMBABWE's state security service, the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), is investigating a volatile commercial dispute that has erupted between the government and interim trustees of Caps Phar...Published: 19 Dec 2020 at 16:38hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe and its billionaires from the underworld
WHILE other nations are exploring such faraway places as the asteroid Bennu, Zimbabweans are exploring dark underworld caves for serpents and tokoloshes. These creatures later kill their host,...Published: 13 Nov 2020 at 07:39hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Rushwaya case sucks in CIO spooks
THE State yesterday made an about-turn and withdrew its earlier offer of bail to Zimbabwe Miners Federation president Henrietta Rushwaya, claiming she was likely part of a larger syndicate in a gold s...Published: 29 Oct 2020 at 06:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Black Friday and the new Chiwenga law
THREE very interesting but equally disturbing, sinister and disruptive developments took place last Friday.The Supreme Court granted the MDC-T party an extension to hold its long-overdue c...Published: 04 Oct 2020 at 10:04hrs | 3 | by Tawanda Majoni
Jonathan Moyo to be deported back to Zimbabwe? - 'How CIO works'
The Zimbabwean and international space has been congested by Jonathan Moyo posting photos of certain individuals accusing them for being members in the president's office who are persecuting and tortu...Published: 14 Sep 2020 at 08:32hrs | 2 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza
Spooks in dramatic bid to arrest former Vice President Mphoko
Investigators from the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) on Friday made an attempt to arrest former Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko but he refused to leave his house with them, dramatic vid...Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 20:04hrs | 2 | by ZimLive
Mugabe's spooks boss bashed to death: Post-mortem
SLAIN central intelligence operative Peter Munetsi was not on medication as claimed by the government, but was beaten to death by his captors during the November 2017 military coup that toppled presid...Published: 24 May 2019 at 07:32hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Nothing new about the 'new dispensation'
Grace Mugabe is like a civet cat's stench. It's so strong it will burn your nostrils. And it doesn't go away in a hurry. Now, that disgraceful smell is hanging around President Emmerson Mnangagwa's se...Published: 19 May 2019 at 09:27hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Nature and function of 'Alien Spirits' in the Shona/Ndebele traditional religion
Explain the nature and function of Alien Spirits in the Shona\Ndebele Traditional Religion.The concept of God, divinities and spirits in African traditi...Published: 15 May 2019 at 08:19hrs | 70 | by Brian Maregedze
Explain the nature and function of Alien Spirits in the Shona\Ndebele Traditional Religion
Advanced Level Family and Religious Studies: Nature and Function of Alien Spirits in the Shona/Ndebele Traditional Religion The concept of God, diviniti...Published: 12 May 2019 at 08:29hrs | 1188 | by Brian Maregedze
There goes Mnangagwa bluffing, yet again!
History has a rich record of dumb presidents, so you really don't worry too much when President Emmerson Mnangagwa forgets the name of the National Sports Stadium or messes up simple math during a pol...Published: 28 Apr 2019 at 08:31hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni
Robbing the poor in the name of patriotism
The post-Robert Mugabe administration led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa fancies itself a new dispensation. That is a useless fantasy, of course. Things are as old in the "new" administration as they...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:10hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
What if witchcraft is our technology?
One of my aunts is a drama queen. She is bubbly and energetic, and a storyteller of note. Whenever she is around, we all find ourselves surrounding her and listening to tale after tale of her adventur...Published: 23 Dec 2018 at 09:20hrs | 3 | by Thandekile Moyo
Mnangagwa's spooks and military following Chamisa to the toilet
MDC president Nelson Chamisa has sensationally claimed that the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) and the military intelligence are following him wherever he goes.He jokingly told his su...Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 16:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa says Mnangagwa sending CIOs to follow him , dramatise kidnapping
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa has made sensational claims President Emmerson Mnangagwa was sending state agents and some military intelligence operatives to tail him even when he goes to the toilet....Published: 11 Nov 2018 at 09:50hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Moyo is Mnangagwa's new acid test
Back in the days, every old, frail and ugly country woman was believed to be a witch. It didn't matter if, indeed, she was. Her looks and age naturally turned her into that ogre that drank our blood a...Published: 14 Oct 2018 at 10:02hrs | | by Tawanda Majoni
Its no more about democracy
When supping with the devil one must use a long spoon, its not about democracy but our resources. The campaign period and election time of Zimbabwe's recent harmonised elections were the most peaceful...Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 15:56hrs | | by Tondo Murisa
Mugabe's spooks purged by Mnangagwa
THREE senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) directors were yesterday fired, while two others were re-assigned in the latest round of fresh purges, as President-elect Emmerson Mnangagwa's rest...Published: 17 Aug 2018 at 14:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Another GNU in the making?
The 2018 elections in Zimbabwe bear strong similarities to those of 1980: the promise of a new beginning after almost two decades of political strife, economic crisis and social decay; the numerical d...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 15:26hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza
'Spooks' in Chamisa anti-rigging experts
MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa has put together a team of experts in an attempt to forestall any form of rigging that may arise before, during and after the Monday poll.Harare lawyer Thaba...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 13:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
It's a do-or-die for Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is on a precarious course, as he faces critical and possibly realigning elections - which could usher dramatic changes in the political landscape - and bring to a sudden h...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 11:23hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chigumba's sex life and the pitfalls of social media
I am not sure if Priscilla Chigumba, the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) chair, bleached to be such a yellow-bone. But I am not rushing to make her pigmentation any of my business because it's not...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 10:32hrs | 2 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa's govt fails first fiscal test
ZIMBABWE'S fiscal details for the first quarter of 2018 show government had cumulative revenue collections of about US$1,2 billion, against total expenditure outlays of US$1,4 billion, resulting in a ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 15:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Junta, spooks, scribes enter Zanu-PF primaries
THE upcoming Zanu-PF primary elections have set a new record with over 100 former soldiers, State spies, police officers, business executives and journalists from the private and State media on the pa...Published: 24 Apr 2018 at 07:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Army's diamond mining activities under spotlight
Defence secretary Martin Rushwaya is today expected to appear in Parliament for grilling over the army's mining activities in the Chiadzwa diamond fields.Rushwaya was initially scheduled to ap...Published: 19 Apr 2018 at 07:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Spooks co-owned Zimbabwe diamond mine
FORMER director-general of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), Happyton Bonyongwe told parliament this Monday that the department did not receive anything from the sale of diamonds mined at i...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 10:25hrs | 6 | by Staff rpeorter
Mohadi faces grilling over diamonds
HARARE - Vice President Kembo Mohadi will on Monday lead a team of serving and retired Cabinet ministers and security chiefs, respectively, in giving evidence on how police and the military were award...Published: 07 Apr 2018 at 17:42hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Zimbabwe and its Constitutional Dilemma: Constitutionalism
The term Constitutionalism means much more when looked at in the study of law. However, for lay people the term comes from the Constitution and refers in terms of government to a Constitutional govern...Published: 28 Feb 2018 at 15:26hrs | 7 | by Dr Vusumuzi Sibanda
Mugabe silenced, surveillance beefed up
There are unverified media reports in the Zimbabwean that former President Robert Mugabe's private residence has been slapped with a sophisticated 24/7 surveillance blanket following the 94 year old's...Published: 12 Feb 2018 at 13:02hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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