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Exposing Mnangagwa Sadc facade
Your Excellencies, I write this public letter as an ordinary citizen of Zimbabwe, a member state of the Southern African Development Community (SADC).It is in the true African spirit of ubuntu...Published: 07 Aug 2024 at 15:34hrs | 1848 | by Luke Tamborinyoka
Foreign tourist arrested in Zimbabwe for spreading 'falsehoods'
Two foreign tourists have been arrested in Masvingo with one charged for allegedly recording a video "falsely" claiming the existence of continued water shortages and power cuts in Zimbabwe while the ...Published: 05 Aug 2024 at 07:33hrs | 2082 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe CIO's business network
Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) likely has a secret stream of money, The Sentry has found. Publicly availa...Published: 10 Jun 2024 at 17:53hrs | 105 | by Staff reporter
CIO agents released on bail
Four members of the President's Department, accused of extorting US$1,000 from Brian Dziwandi, director of Dopsa Energy (Pvt) Ltd, were granted bail of US$100 each yesterday.Appearing before H...Published: 28 May 2024 at 09:53hrs | 29 | by Staff reporter
Faz spearheads Zanu-PF by-elections campaign
FOREVER Associates Zimbabwe (Faz), a shadowy organisation linked to the country's spy agency, has retraced its footsteps back into the political arena, this time campaigning for ruling party candidate...Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 14:30hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Soldiers voted against Mnangagwa?
PRESIDENT-ELECT Emmerson Mnangagwa lost at a polling station set up for soldiers from Pondoroza Barracks in Redcliff, Midlands province, during last week's elections, in a development that has laid ba...Published: 04 Sep 2023 at 21:13hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Foreign funded report fingers Zanu-PF
Zanu-PF activists and its affiliate, Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ), have been cited among leading perpetrators of political violence.FAZ has been linked to the dreaded spy agency, Central ...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:48hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to free political prisoners, reform Judiciary
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa says he will free all political prisoners and the Judiciary from State capture, as part of his key deliverables in 100 days once el...Published: 10 Aug 2023 at 06:45hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
5 CCC members in court over Mnangagwa poster
FIVE Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) members accused of destroying a Zanu-PF campaign poster bearing President Emmerson Mnangagwa's image appeared at the Karoi Magistrate Court on Thursday. ...Published: 02 Aug 2023 at 06:52hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
CCC clears air on double candidacy
THE opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party has cleared the air on the Bulawayo double candidacy debacle amid concerns that the anomaly was triggered by unapproved candidates whose nomina...Published: 27 Jun 2023 at 06:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's activists attack FAZ agent at voters' roll inspection centre
Five opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) supporters from Chirumanzu have been arrested for allegedly manhandling a member of mysterious Zanu-PF appendage group Forever Associates Zimbabwe (...Published: 03 Jun 2023 at 18:49hrs | | 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 | 3 | 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 | 8 | 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 invited to the US as the West lose hope on Zimbabwe's hopeless opposition
ZIMBABWE has been invited to the upcoming United States-Africa leaders' summit in Washington despite concern over a "dire" authoritarian pivot by the Harare government which has seen a crackdown again...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Matabeleland Chiefs make tough demands
TRADITIONAL chiefs in Matabeleland and the Midlands early this week tabled before President Emmerson Mnangagwa a number of tough demands on top of a public apology that need to be fulfilled in order t...Published: 23 Oct 2022 at 17:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
CIO training centre gutted in suspected arson attack
ZIMBABWE'S state security agency Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)'s training centre in Harare's Msasa suburb along St Patrick's Road across Chiremba Road from Hatfield has been burnt down by fi...Published: 02 Oct 2022 at 09:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, SA friction laid bare as tensions rise
SIMMERING tensions between Zimbabwe and South Africa this week exploded after an outburst by a top provincial health official in the neighbouring country who took swipe at President Emmerson Mnangagwa...Published: 30 Aug 2022 at 19:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
CIO besiege operative's house, seize vehicle
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) operatives on Wednesday besieged the house of a former senior official who is fighting his expulsion in court after exposing cases of suspected corruption withi...Published: 08 Jun 2022 at 09:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Massive looting exposed at CIO
CENTRAL Intelligence Organisation (CIO) financial records are in a shambles amid fears that senior officers in the state spy agency are presiding over massive looting and hounding out two senior emplo...Published: 04 Jun 2022 at 20:00hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa is world's best spy operative,' claims Mutsvangwa
Zanu-PF politburo member, Christopher Mutsvangwa says President Emmerson Mnangagwa is arguably one of the best intelligence officers ever to come out of Zimbabwe, while the country's spy agency servic...Published: 14 Nov 2021 at 05:40hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Thulani Dlomo hands himself to police after a smear campaign by ThumaMinaMediaGroup (Stratcom)
The former head of the spy agency Special Operations Unit and former SA ambassador to Japan, Thulani Dlomo has handed himself over to police on Friday after he was accused by the #ThumaMinaMediaGroup,...Published: 16 Jul 2021 at 17:35hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa wades into Zapu properties decades later
OPPOSITION MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa, whose father is believed to have been a general in the Zimbabwe army, yesterday waded into the long-drawn Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zpra) pro...Published: 06 Jul 2021 at 10:40hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa, Mliswa ex image sets social media on fire
A SEEMINGLY decent image of MDC Alliance leader Nelson Chamisa with Temba Mliswa's estranged lover Susan Mutami has set social media buzzing with many suggesting the controversial figure could be spec...Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 16:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mliswa exposes plot to destroy Mnangagwa
DETAINED Norton Independent MP Temba Mliswa has implicated State Security Minister Owen ‘Mudha' and his Local Government colleague July Moyo of plotting destroy President Emmerson Mnangagwa's politi...Published: 12 Feb 2021 at 05:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Bonyongwe suffers strange break-ins
POLICE are investigating two cases where unknown assailants broke into former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director-general Happyton Bonyongwe's offices and vehicle, getting away with docum...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:55hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
MP subjected to series of suspicious car break-ins
FORMER president Robert Mugabe and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director of security Albert Ngulube, now Zanu PF MP for Beitbridge East, has been subjected to a series of suspicious break-i...Published: 22 Jun 2019 at 19:59hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
CIO boss 'beaten to death' in 2017 coup, autopsy reveals
Peter Munetsi, a senior Zimbabwean spy operative, died as a result of multiple blunt force injuries during the military-led coup that ousted former president Robert Mugabe, an autopsy report has revea...Published: 21 May 2019 at 18:11hrs | 121 | by TimesLIVE
2017 military coup ghosts spooking Mnangagwa govt
THE wife of killed Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Peter Munetsi (pictured), who died in military detention during the November 2017 coup which ousted former president Robert Mugabe, Ross...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 13:55hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Killed CIO boss' wife demands US$600 000
THE wife of killed Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) boss Peter Munetsi (pictured), who died in military detention during the November 2017 coup which ousted former president Robert Mugabe, Ross...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 08:08hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's military shake-up: smoke and mirrors
THE retirement of four military generals and their immediate reassignment to Foreign Affairs has been widely interpreted as President Emmerson Mnangagwa moving to coup-proof his regime by getting rid ...Published: 07 Mar 2019 at 14:57hrs | 1 | by Paidamoyo Muzulu
CIO dirty secrets exposed
A top Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) officer has accused his bosses in the spy agency of victimising him because they fear he will expose their corrupt activities.Augustine Mutambu, the C...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 08:17hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
No leads in Mnangagwa bombing
Investigations into a bomb blast that missed President Emmerson Mnangagwa by a whisker nearly six months ago do not seem to be heading anywhere, with the probe team still to apprehend suspects linked ...Published: 09 Dec 2018 at 14:06hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Police, CIO sabotaged 'Zanu-PF and backed Biti' during elections
THE ruling Zanu-PF party believes it lost Harare East constituency in the July 30 elections due to sabotage by the police and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) spy agency, NewZimbabwe.com report...Published: 02 Sep 2018 at 09:25hrs | | by Staff reporter
Grace Mugabe ally arrested
A former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director with alleged links to former first lady Grace Mugabe was arrested yesterday in a suspected clampdown against Zanu-PF's G40 faction.Tad...Published: 22 Jul 2018 at 20:04hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa charms military
MDC Alliance presidential candidate Nelson Chamisa has pledged improved living standards for the country's servicemen and to depoliticise the national spy agency which he says has been abused to torme...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 09:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
$15bn diamond saga deepens
FORMER secretary for mines, Francis Gudyanga yesterday claimed that there were powerful forces controlling the diamond mining sector, saying he had received unspecified threats from people he declined...Published: 10 Apr 2018 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police in another major shake-up
The Zimbabwe Republic Police (ZRP) has redeployed nationwide close to 400 police officers and suspended 19 others amid allegations of various acts of misconduct as it continued with its acts of trying...Published: 09 Feb 2018 at 07:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
WATCH: Victims relive Gukurahundi massacres that taint Mnangagwa
Mahetshe - To ward off evil spirits, Jochonia Moyo picks wild herbs as he returns to Bhalagwe detention camp - the site of unimaginable brutality during a series of massacres more than 30 years ago th...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 06:29hrs | | by AFP
Mnangagwa's axe seen shifting to CIOs
The dreaded axe is seen shifting to the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) where some of the senior officers are at risk of either being retired, sacked or reassigned.Highly-placed source...Published: 25 Jan 2018 at 12:43hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Jonathan Moyo was on CIA payroll,' says Hungwe
Zanu-PF deputy national commissar Omega Hungwe has claimed that exiled former higher education minister and G40 kingpin, Jonathan Moyo was on the American spy agency, CIA, payroll specifically to dest...Published: 24 Jan 2018 at 07:39hrs | | by Staff reporter
Major shake-up looming in CIO
The dreaded axe is seen shifting to the Central Intelligence Organization (CIO) where some of the senior officers are at risk of either being retired, sacked or reassigned. Highly-placed sourc...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Opposition frets over securocrats
BULAWAYO - As the eagerly-anticipated 2018 national polls beckon, the People's Rainbow Coalition (PRC) has challenged President Emmerson Mnangagwa to introduce security sector reforms to guarantee the...Published: 29 Dec 2017 at 20:22hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa's government want to consolidate its power
Treasury has increased the vote allocation to President Emmerson Mnangagwa's office by $56 million - in a development analysts say is partly geared towards taking care of the exit packages of deposed ...Published: 11 Dec 2017 at 15:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe feared being Zimbabwe's Gaddafi
An emotional Robert Mugabe finally agreed to end his 37-rule in Zimbabwe when army generals who'd seized power told him they wouldn't prevent protesters from storming his home unless he relented, thre...Published: 27 Nov 2017 at 15:38hrs | 1 | by Bloomberg News
CIO boss to be named next month
Several names are being bandied around as possible candidates to replace Happyton Bonyongwe as the country's top spy.A new director-general of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) is ex...Published: 29 Oct 2017 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe appoints his chief spy as the new Justice minister
The unexpected appointment of former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) director-general Happyton Bonyongwe to head the Justice, Legal and Parliamentary Affairs ministry has sent tongues wagging ...Published: 12 Oct 2017 at 16:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa poisoning saga deepens, Mugabe tried to conceal medical findings
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe initially wanted Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa to conceal medical findings in his poisoning saga, fearing the issue could rock the boat in the ruling Zanu PF party, but the...Published: 11 Oct 2017 at 09:39hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Watchdog zooms in on Zimbabwe's missing $15 billion
Zimbabwe's ruling elite has diverted the country's vast diamond riches to help fund repression by dodging sanctions and raising money for security forces, an anti-corruption campaign group alleged Mon...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 15:58hrs | | by Agencies
Cde Mnangagwa has recovered, Cdes
Dear Cabinet and Politburo membersCOMRADES, I must express my displeasure at the manner in which the sad news of Cde Rutanhire's passing was handled. It appeared as if the party does not have ...Published: 01 Sep 2017 at 09:36hrs | 1 | by CZ
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