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Mnangagwa promotes 2 ZDF officers
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has promoted two Brigadier-Generals to the rank of Major-General and one Air Commodore to Air Vice-Marshal.The promotions are in accordance with Section 15(1) (B) (Chapter ...Published: 13 Apr 2019 at 08:40hrs | 10520 | by Staff Reporter
Britain to impose new sanctions on Zimbabwe after Brexit
Britain is ready to impose sanctions on Zimbabwe when it leaves the European Union.In readiness for its exit from the EU, which now appears to have been pushed back until October, Britain has ...Published: 12 Apr 2019 at 17:16hrs | 9299 | by ZimLive
Zimbabwe-Zambia joint commission on Defence and Security opens
Defence and War Veterans' Minister Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri and her counterpart from Zambia Mr Stephen Kampyongo are today expected to officially open the 32nd Session of the Zimbabwe Zambia Joint Per...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 22:55hrs | 165 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's days numbered
A special delegation of senior military officials reportedly told Chinese generals that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political reign will expire in 2020, and that he was going to be an interim caret...Published: 24 Mar 2019 at 14:27hrs | 12444 | by Staff repo
Mnangagwa forced to promote 4 generals he retired to second highest rank
President Emmerson Mnangagwa, seeking to mollify his deputy Constantino Chiwenga, has been forced to promote four army generals that he recently sent on retirement.Chiwenga was receiving treat...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 16:20hrs | 6958 | by ZimLive
Army told China Mnangagwa’s power expires in 2020
A special delegation of senior military officials reportedly told Chinese generals that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's political reign will expire in 2020, and that he was going to be an interim caret...Published: 22 Mar 2019 at 09:51hrs | 27834 | by Spotlight
'Army killings stiffled UK efforts to lift sanctions on Zimbabwe'
THE British government has maintained that the August 1, 2018 post-election violence shootings and January 14-16, 2019 killings, which claimed over 20 lives after security forces fired into protestors...Published: 18 Mar 2019 at 10:33hrs | 2358 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe drifts towards online darkness
One year after jubilant residents celebrated on the streets of Harare when Zimbabwe's army removed Robert Mugabe from power, the country is in darkness.In January, after days of protests over ...Published: 03 Mar 2019 at 18:26hrs | 904 | by Ray Mwayera
Mnangagwa gets fresh chance from EU
In a rare piece of good news for President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his under pressure administration, he has been given a stay of execution by the European Union (EU), whose Parliament had proposed tou...Published: 20 Feb 2019 at 12:07hrs | 3146 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa escapes fresh EU sanctions
Zimbabwe's leaders escaped fresh sanctions by the European Union on Monday despite growing repression.The EU Parliament last week called for individual sanctions to be widened against top gove...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 23:38hrs | 14009 | by ZimLive
Chihuri and Bonyongwe removed from sanctions list
The European Union has announced that it has removed former Police Chief Augustine Chihuri and former Spy Boss Happyton Bonyongwe from the sanctions list.EU said the two are no longer in gover...Published: 18 Feb 2019 at 17:53hrs | 7154 | by Mandla Ndlovu
More bad news for Mnangagwa
Zimbabwe should brace for more problems after the European Union (EU) Parliament proposed a fresh round of punitive sanctions this week against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his government, followi...Published: 17 Feb 2019 at 16:12hrs | 19745 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Army to fire soldier couples
HUNDREDS of soldiers face expulsion from the army after Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) Commander General Philip Valerio Sibanda activated a policy that prohibits officers from marrying each other....Published: 13 Feb 2019 at 08:40hrs | 2755 | by Staff reporter
Army commander orders prosecutor to deny protestors bail
Commander of the Zimbabwe Defense Forces General Philip Valerio Sibanda is reported to have instructed a prosecutor handling the cases of protestors handling the cases relating to #ShutdownZimbabwe to...Published: 11 Feb 2019 at 09:05hrs | 3507 | by Mandla Ndlovu
'Zanu-PF gave us army uniforms'
A Harare man has told a court that he got a military uniform he used to terrorise residents from the Zanu-PF headquarters in a case that might shed some light on recent disturbances that rocked the co...Published: 10 Feb 2019 at 06:16hrs | 3757 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa government dogged by mistrust
A cloud of mistrust has reportedly engulfed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government as emerging details allege that some ZANU PF members participated in the protests that turned violent to sab...Published: 04 Feb 2019 at 15:42hrs | 6314 | by Alistair Nyakudya
Coup threat forced Mnangagwa to cut short his foreign jaunt
A THREAT of an internal revolt and possibility of a military-led ouster reportedly forced President Emmerson Mnangagwa to cut short his foreign jaunt and return home, as his close allies - ministers a...Published: 22 Jan 2019 at 08:50hrs | 4051 | by Staff reporter
Plot to oust Mnangagwa 'foiled'
A daring plot to oust President Emmerson Mnangagwa through an impeachment process has been "foiled", according to one of the Zanu-PF leader's loyalists.The rebels "lack the numbers for impeach...Published: 21 Jan 2019 at 08:58hrs | 7206 | by ZimLive
Military in civilian life: lessons from the fall of Mugabe
Since the fall of long-term ruler, Robert Mugabe in a coup in November 2017, Zimbabwe's military has become a daily part of the country's political life, in your face and very much in charge.B...Published: 17 Jan 2019 at 18:06hrs | 619 | by The Source News Agency
Military looms large in Zimbabwe power matrix
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has been extensively restructuring the army ever since assuming power through a millitary coup in 2017, confirming that the security apparatus remains deeply steeped in th...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:56hrs | 2678 | by Staff reporter
Army boss encourages family interaction
HUNDREDS of people thronged Garths Farm in Marula, Mangwe District in Matabeleland South to celebrate the promotion of Major-General Hlanganani Dube as the Army Chief of Staff Quartermaster.Th...Published: 06 Jan 2019 at 09:48hrs | 428 | by Staff reporter
General Valerio Sibanda urges military to remain resilient
The Commander of Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF), General Philip Valerio Sibanda has claimed that there were some detractors who wanted to manipulate the military for their personal gains and urged the ...Published: 05 Jan 2019 at 17:17hrs | 3807 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa okayed deadly army deployment
A flurry of behind-the-scenes consultations that took place before the August 1 army killings has lifted the lid on who actually authorised the military deployments that quelled demonstrations which r...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:57hrs | 4792 | by Staff reporter
Army general haunts Mnangagwa
The promotion of Anselm Sanyatwe - the man who commanded soldiers that shot six civilians in Harare's central business district on August 1, 2018 - to the rank of Major General has exposed government'...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 19:56hrs | 18235 | by Staff reporter
Army, police commanders lied under oath
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda and police Commissioner-General Godwin Matanga lied under oath when they testified before the commission of inquiry into the post-...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 07:02hrs | 1942 | by Staff reporter
August 1 massacre commander's promotion raises stink
Presidential Guard commander Anselem Nhamo Sanyatwe's recent promotion to the rank of Major-General before the release of the results of the commission of inquiry (COI) into the August 1 shooting rais...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:33hrs | 1350 | by Editorial - newsday
BREAKING: Mnangagwa promotes 1 August killings commander
President Mnangagwa has promoted Presidential Guard and the National Reaction Force Commander Brigadier-General Anselem Nhamo Sanyatwe to the rank of Major General. Sanyatwe is the leader of the...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 17:37hrs | 9749 | by Collen Ncube
Mnangagwa promotes August 1 massacre commander
In the week that President Emmerson Mnangagwa promised he would release a commission of inquiry report into the August 1 street killing of six civilians by the military, the commander of the unit that...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 17:26hrs | 2857 | by ZimLive
Mnangagwa promotes army officers
The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces, Emmerson Mnangagwa has promoted two brigadier generals to the rank of major generals.The two promoted are Major General Tho...Published: 17 Dec 2018 at 15:42hrs | 1172 | by Staff reporter
What are the realistic chances for political dialogue in Zimbabwe?
All political transitions (without exception) whether occasioned by revolution, externally driven or resulting from an election, are perfected through dialogue between the contending forces in society...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 05:56hrs | 448 | by Brian T Kagoro
Motlanthe commission: Too little, too late
MDC Alliance leaders appeared before the Kgalema Motlanthe-led commission of inquiry into the August 1 killings and the presentation by Tendai Biti and Nelson Chamisa left the commissioners in awe....Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:43hrs | 1412 | by Wilton Machimbira
Zimbabwe post-election violence probe team slams critics
The seven-member Commission of Inquiry into the post-elections violence that claimed six lives and left property worth of millions dollars destroyed in Harare, has slammed its critics and defended the...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:14hrs | 533 | by Staff reporter
How the Motlanthe commission of inquiry shot itself in the foot
The seven-member commission of inquiry into the August 1 disturbances wound up its work last week and presented the executive summary of its report to President Emmerson Mnangagwa on Thursday, three m...Published: 02 Dec 2018 at 10:39hrs | 3244 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa gets shootings inquiry report
THE Commission of Inquiry into the post-election violence of August 1 that claimed six lives in Harare and left 22 injured yesterday submitted the executive summary of its report to President Emmerson...Published: 30 Nov 2018 at 07:17hrs | 5608 | by Staff Reporter
Zezurus fall from high positions as Karangas take over
Like bags of maize dropping from a speeding truck, Zezurus that have been occupying strategic positions during Mugabe era are now falling in numbers as Mnangagwa's Karanga take over and build their ow...Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 07:34hrs | 9791 | by Israel Dube, MLO Secretary for Information and Public Affairs
Chamisa's hands are clean
Opposition leader Nelson Chamisa yesterday told the Commission of Inquiry probing the deadly August 1 post-election violence in Harare - which left at least six people dead after the military joined p...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 16:09hrs | 1229 | by Staff reporter
Kidnapping claim hits killing probe
Mystery surrounds the whereabouts of a retired army colonel who was allegedly abducted from his home on Sunday afternoon by masked men - amid claims that he was due to testify before the official prob...Published: 27 Nov 2018 at 06:23hrs | 3946 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa to testify before Commission
MDC-Alliance president Mr Nelson Chamisa has made a major climbdown after he was forced to abandon conditions he had set to testify before the Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 Post-Election Vio...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 05:48hrs | 1211 | by Staff reporter
Motlanthe Commission not a popularity contest
MDC Alliance leader Advocate Nelson Chamisa and co-principal Tendai Biti are some of the high-profile figures expected to give oral evidence before the Motlanthe Commission this week. The inte...Published: 26 Nov 2018 at 05:44hrs | 626 | by Tendai Manzvanzvike
General Sibanda's testimony disputed
The Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) rarely admits to wrongdoing, officials from the Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) told a Commission of Inquiry probing the August 1 post-election violence that...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 20:14hrs | 8930 | by Staff reporter
Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga demoted?
"Commissioner General of Police Godwin Matanga, has been sent on leave pending redeployment as an ambassador,"exiled former G40 Kingpin Prof. Jonathan Moyo has revealed."This paves the way for...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 08:36hrs | 27434 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Mnangagwa's false start
AS undergraduates in our day, one of the most cynical commentaries on post-independent Africa was French writer, Rene Dumont's book False Start in Africa (1966).Those were the years of militar...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 06:29hrs | 2767 | by Ibbo Mandaza
Chamisa, Motlanthe face off
THE commission of inquiry probing the post election violence on August 1 in which the army killed six civilians is reportedly headed for a clash with opposition MDC leader Nelson Chamisa after refusin...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:39hrs | 5005 | by Stafff reporter
Chamisa likely to testify as post-poll violence probe team resumes duty
THE Commission of Inquiry into the August 1 disturbances that resulted in the death of six people and damage to property is resuming today amid reports that MDC-Alliance leader, Mr Nelson Chamisa, is ...Published: 21 Nov 2018 at 05:10hrs | 480 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in major climbdown
MDC leader Nelson Chamisa is now amenable to appearing before a Commission of Inquiry investigating the post-election violence that killed at least six people in central Harare on August 1, the Daily ...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 06:56hrs | 6093 | by Staff reporter
'Chamisa's actions smacked of a fake leader'
The move by MDC-Alliance leader Mr Nelson Chamisa to reject his supporters who demonstrated on August 1 has exposed him as a "political viper" who can sacrifice anyone in his camp when it suits him, p...Published: 20 Nov 2018 at 06:14hrs | 885 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns defiant Chamisa
An unmoved President Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday insisted opposition leader Nelson Chamisa must appear before the commission of inquiry investigating the deadly August 1 shootings, which left at leas...Published: 17 Nov 2018 at 15:50hrs | 16619 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa launches Zimbabwe National Defence University
The Commander in Chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Emerson Mnangawa on Friday officially launched the Zimbabwe National Defence University (ZNDU). The launch was held...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 12:48hrs | 3727 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Angry Chamisa throw the gauntlet at Mnangagwa and Chiwenga
An angry opposition leader, Nelson Chamisa, yesterday threw the gauntlet at both President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy Constantino Chiwenga — challenging them to also testify at the official p...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 12:28hrs | 6600 | by Staff reporter
Doctors nail Zimbabwe army in killings
ZIMBABWE'S military was responsible for the fatal shooting of six civilians, some of whom had nothing to do with the post-election protests that erupted on August 1 in Harare, the Zimbabwe Association...Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:41hrs | 3205 | by Staff reporter
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