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Tsvangirai's role in Mnangagwa coup exposed
THE ruling Zanu-PF has disclosed that the late MDC founding president Morgan Tsvangirai played a crucial role in "sanitising" the ouster of late President Robert Mugabe in a military coup in November ...Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Some Zimbabwe coup troopers die without enjoying benefits of their sweat
SEVERAL key players in the 2017 coup that toppled the late former President Robert Mugabe and elevated President Emmerson Mnangagwa to the helm have died in the past four years without fully realising...Published: 22 Nov 2021 at 06:15hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
On land, Mugabe walked path other African leaders would not
Forget what you may have read in Western press about the late Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Forget the propaganda and Western hate. Forgive the excesses of his rule – human rights abuse and ex...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:55hrs | | by John Kamau
Mugabe 'not feeling well', in Singapore hospital
Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa says he is taking good care of his ailing predecessor, Robert Mugabe, who is currently in Singapore for treatment."He has not been feeling well. At the ...Published: 19 Apr 2019 at 20:04hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Did Britain back Mnangagwa?
Nyathi said that in the meeting, Laing "sounded to be really forcing a line that Mnangagwa is the person to work with, and she wanted our opinions around that".Zanu-PF's opponents have alleged...Published: 29 Mar 2019 at 12:08hrs | 1 | by Rahul Nagvekar
BREAKING: Chamisa's MDC won't impeach Mnangagwa
MDC legislators said they were not going to be used by Zanu-PF to fight their factional battles through the planned impeachment of President Emmerson Mnangagwa.This comes amid high fears over ...Published: 23 Jan 2019 at 12:08hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's messy takeover and other 2018 highlights
AFTER nearly 40 years of former guerrilla leader Robert Mugabe's rule, 2018 opened with the successor he did not want, President Emmerson Mnangagwa, consolidating his rule and embarking on a global ch...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 18:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Ziyambi kicked out
Deputy Prosecutor-General Florence Ziyambi has been removed from the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) due to alleged bad blood between her and her superior, Ray Goba.She has been re-assign...Published: 22 Mar 2018 at 06:16hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai left an incomplete legacy
IN Morgan Tsvangirai's final journeys and last orders, there's something quintessentially Zimbabwean.He went to Johannesburg, the city with the largest concentration of Zimbabweans living abro...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 05:49hrs | 2 | by Percy Zvomuya
Same old Bob, same old Joice?
We wish we could talk nicely to one cartoonist from a private daily and his publishers for the reproduction of a wonderful cartoon they carried a couple of days back. It's too late, unfortunately. ...Published: 07 Feb 2018 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Tichaona Zindoga
Mugabe deserted by relatives
WHEN days are dark, friends are few, so the adage goes, and former President Robert Mugabe is discovering now that the saying rings true, as he reportedly told his former deputy, Joice Mujuru earlier ...Published: 05 Feb 2018 at 04:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai appears increasingly frail, MDC-T mulls future without him
The MDC-T is in a quandary over whether its long-serving leader and founder Morgan Tsvangirai, who's undergoing treatment for colon cancer, should retire before this year's elections.While Tsv...Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 11:38hrs | 1 | by Bloomberg
Grace Mugabe, Mnangagwa tiff exposed
Presidential spokesman George Charamba has for the first time given insights into some of the factors that contributed to the frosty relationship between former president Robert Mugabe and his war tim...Published: 08 Dec 2017 at 06:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Those who enter power by the gun, will exit by the gun
As the old adage goes, 'history repeats itself', and so it is with the current political situation being witnessed in Zimbabwe, as the military has once again been instrumental in the installation - a...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 10:31hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Chiwenga warned, 'Generals who attempted to unseat Mugabe died mysteriously'
Social media users have warned the Defence Forces Commander General Constantino Chiwenga to be cautious not to allow President Robert Mugabe to regain power after the soft coup on condition that sever...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 19:31hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Disunity, confusion, cluelessness and power hunger = 3 coalitions
One would say we want change and yes it is time to bring the necessary change we have been yearning for the past decades under one man rule yet in the face of that opportunity we become even more divi...Published: 06 Nov 2017 at 10:18hrs | | by Dr. Takesure Tazvishaya
It's sink or swim for Mnangagwa
Political analysts say the recent suspensions of key Zanu-PF officials aligned to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa leave the Midlands godfather with the option of either fighting back or si...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 12:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies feel the heat
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mangagwa's Team Lacoste camp has vowed to fight back the recent suspension of its four allies in Masvingo and Midlands provincial executive, claiming the suspensions were uncon...Published: 30 Oct 2017 at 05:16hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Chiwenga can't turn against Mugabe'
Zanu-PF Buhera South MP Joseph Chinotimba has accused Young Turks in the ruling party of sowing seeds of divisions between President Robert Mugabe and senior leaders within the ruling party as well as...Published: 25 Oct 2017 at 06:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Grace Mugabe VP a wish list,' says Zanu-PF's Mangwana
Zanu-PF deputy secretary for Legal Affairs, Paul Mangwana, has dismissed growing calls by the party's influential youth league to have a woman replace one of the country's two vice presidents, as a wi...Published: 24 Oct 2017 at 07:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa set to go down fighting
Embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is unlikely to go down without a fight amid revelations that his loyalists are planning to make their last stand at an extraordinary congress to be convened...Published: 19 Oct 2017 at 07:51hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutasa warns Mugabe, brawling aides
As Zanu-PF's succession wars reach a deadly climax, former State Security minister, Didymus Mutasa - who was for decades one of President Robert Mugabe's closest confidants - has warned that things "c...Published: 17 Oct 2017 at 13:54hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fear, panic grip Mugabe cabinet
President Robert Mugabe will reshuffle his Cabinet this week in a desperate bid to weed out elements perceived as fomenting discord in his stuttering government.Mugabe told Zanu PF youths at h...Published: 08 Oct 2017 at 16:22hrs | | by Staff reporter
Who is the modern day Judas Iscariot in Zimbabwe?
Last week, President Robert Mugabe railed against unnamed ruling party officials whom he likened to Judas Iscariot for attempting to betray him in order to seize power.As much as Jesus' discip...Published: 04 Oct 2017 at 14:37hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
'Mujuru is Zanu-PF,' claims divisive Tendai Biti
UNDER-FIRE People's Democratic Party (PDP) leader Tendai Biti has accused former Vice-President Joice Mujuru and her National People's Party (NPP) of fomenting divisions in the opposition ranks in the...Published: 30 Sep 2017 at 07:03hrs | | by Staff reporter
Witchcraft hounds Mutare communities
MUTARE - While witchcraft has become a topical subject in President Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu PF following the alleged poisoning incident involving one of the party's senior officials, few would hav...Published: 28 Sep 2017 at 12:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe hints at Cabinet shake-up
President Robert Mugabe has dropped the clearest hint that he might reshuffle his Cabinet anytime soon to weed out elements seen as fomenting discord in his government, the Daily News can report....Published: 27 Sep 2017 at 07:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Biti's PDP has not formally signed any alliance agreement with Tsvangirai
PEOPLE'S Democratic Party (PDP) general council members have organised an urgent meeting this weekend to resolve their differences and decide whether they should go to bed with MDC Alliance led by Mor...Published: 26 Sep 2017 at 06:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo lucky to be alive
ZANU PF spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo has said that he is lucky to be alive after being bedridden for nearly a year suffering from hypertension-related illnesses.Khaya Moyo, who described eyei...Published: 13 Sep 2017 at 08:13hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe, no country for young man
Zimbabwe, no country for young manMy paternal grandfather, fondly referred to as vaGumbo- Madyirapazhe died at the ripe old age of ninety nine ( may his soul rest in peace). One thing he was k...Published: 11 Sep 2017 at 22:27hrs | | by Lloyd Msipa
Mugabe go for the kill
President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF party has turned its guns on Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's bastion of support by pushing for the dissolution of Christopher Mutsvangwa's Zimbabwe National Liber...Published: 09 Sep 2017 at 14:59hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa 'poisoning' Sekeramayi, Parirenyatwa fight to clear their names
Cabinet ministers Sydney Sekeramayi and David Parirenyatwa have written to Energy Mutodi signalling their intention to sue the controversial businessman for sensationally claiming that they were behin...Published: 02 Sep 2017 at 19:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa back at work after poison saga
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa has returned to work after spending weeks away from his official duties following emergency surgery prompted by a suspected and alleged poison attack at a youth inter...Published: 30 Aug 2017 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa breaks silence
Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa ended weeks of silence on his alleged poisoning by thanking God for sparing his life during the sudden illness in Gwanda which saw him being airlifted to South Africa...Published: 28 Aug 2017 at 07:24hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo challenges Mnangagwa on poisoning
HARARE - Cabinet minister and Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo waded into the saga involving the alleged poisoning of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday; suggesting that police shou...Published: 23 Aug 2017 at 08:02hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ingested potent, non-radioactive poison
FRESH details have emerged that South African doctors - who performed a minor surgery on Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured) last Wednesday - reportedly detected traces of palladium poison wh...Published: 21 Aug 2017 at 08:46hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa poisoning saga deepens
HARARE - The discord between Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa's allies and his employer - the government - burst into the public domain yesterday as the two sides took diametrically opposite position...Published: 18 Aug 2017 at 15:15hrs | | by Staff Reporter
Mnangagwa offers to resign from govt and Zanu-PF
IN a dramatic development which could have led to a seismic shift in local politics, Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week offered to resign from his government and ruling party posts, saying he...Published: 11 Aug 2017 at 07:17hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe must brace themselves for a real opposition political outfit
The incessant bickering among opposition and many other serious missteps by the Zimbabwean opposition leaders have left me with no choice but to launch a smart opposition party by September 2017. The ...Published: 09 Aug 2017 at 22:03hrs | 1 | by Sam Wezhira
Grace has captured Mugabe, says war vets
WAR veterans have threatened to join hands with opposition parties in a fresh onslaught aimed at pushing out "captured" President Robert Mugabe from power in next year's general elections.Zimb...Published: 31 Jul 2017 at 07:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Jonathan Moyo square-off
ZANU-PF succession protagonists Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo came eyeball to eyeball in a titanic battle for President Robert Mugabe's attention as the...Published: 21 Jul 2017 at 08:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mutasa's plight touches Mugabe
It is often said that President Robert Mugabe hardly forgives nor forgets, but not when it has something to do with Didymus Mutasa - one of his longest serving confidantes who fell out with him after ...Published: 19 Jul 2017 at 07:21hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's failing health takes centre stage
As political parties begin their intense preparations for next year's make-or-break polls, there is concern within and outside the ruling Zanu-PF on whether President Robert Mugabe would be able to ha...Published: 14 Jul 2017 at 14:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe fooling Zanu-PF
President Robert Mugabe is desperately playing a delicate balancing act; juggling the two Zanu-PF factions that are wrangling over his succession in order to keep himself in power while at the same ti...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Dark horse to lead coalition against Mugabe
A mediator may be called in to narrow the differences among the country's opposition political parties that are quibbling over who should shepherd the mooted grand coalition to confront Zanu-PF's Pres...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 07:28hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube playing with fire?
The ruling Zanu-PF party's behaviour has often been likened to that of baboons, which fight over food, but close ranks whenever there is danger.Another distinctive characteristic of the ruling...Published: 02 Jul 2017 at 14:15hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai helps keep Mugabe in power
INDEPENDENT legislator Temba Mliswa has blamed opposition leaders for aiding President Robert Mugabe's rule by constantly uttering reckless statements.According to NewZimbabwe.com, Mliswa said...Published: 24 Jun 2017 at 19:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo shreds Mudenda probe report
Fireworks explosively erupted on Wednesday in the Zanu-PF politburo, the ruling party's de facto highest decision-making body between Congress, as party bigwigs clashed over the fate of Saviour. ...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 07:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Kasukuwere on borrowed times
UNDER-FIRE Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere was left scrambling for answers on Wednesday after an extraordinary politburo meeting to decide his fate ended inconclusively as his backers s...Published: 23 Jun 2017 at 07:22hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'NGOs not welcome in Zimbabwe,' says Grace Mugabe
President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe torched a storm on Friday after she declared that non-governmental organisations (NGOs) were no-longer welcome in the southern African country.Grace...Published: 03 Jun 2017 at 12:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
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