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Mutsvangwa says he is back to full fitness as war veterans close ranks
Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) chaiperson Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa says he is back to full fitness and is ready to lead the ex-liberation fighters, especially ...Published: 03 Feb 2019 at 11:43hrs | 1386 | by Staff reporter
'Mohadi involved in rape and murder' says Mliswa as he spills the beans
Norton Member of Parliament Temba Mliswa has accused vice President Kembo Dugish Campbell Mohadi of being involved in corruption, rape and murder. Mliswa says he is compiling a dossi...Published: 02 Feb 2019 at 09:32hrs | 8179 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe, way forward will be great tribute to the great icon Oliver Mtukudzi?
Dialogue is a way to solve all the problems we are facing as a nation. The way forward is to do away with strongman spirit. Going forward, we must correct wrongs now. We need to value humanity. The go...Published: 25 Jan 2019 at 13:23hrs | 290 | by Enos Denhere
War vets endorse MDC Alliance town chair
Zimbabwe National Liberations of War Veterans Associations (ZNLWVA) national political commissar, Francis Nhando has praised Chiredzi town chairperson Gibson Hwende as an exemplary leader.Hwen...Published: 19 Jan 2019 at 16:11hrs | 2364 | by Staff reporter
War vets demand civil service overhaul
WAR veterans yesterday demanded an overhaul of the civil service, claiming there was adequate proof that some government workers were aiding the opposition by supporting protests.Addressing jo...Published: 18 Jan 2019 at 12:20hrs | 1376 | by Staff reporter
'Fire Mangudya and come home now' Lumumba tells Mnangagwa
In a scathing letter to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, self-styled communications strategist William Mutumanje has warned that protestors are targeting Mnangagwa’s houses and are soon going to burn i...Published: 15 Jan 2019 at 08:54hrs | 3770 | by Mandla Ndlovu
War veterans threaten businesses against price hikes
War veterans have threatened to "deal" with business people who are they alleged were making massive profits through "unjustifiable" increase of prices.This comes after President Emmerson Mnan...Published: 14 Jan 2019 at 15:23hrs | 2105 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF, Jonathan Moyo, Strive Masiyiwa, Lovemore Madhuku, Jealousy Mawarire pentagon gangsters of evil
I am not amused by the discord between, Jonathan Moyo-Strive Masiyiwa, Jonathan Moyo-Lovemore Madhuku, Jonathan Moyo-Jealousy Mawarire that had been engineered by ZANU PF style of leadership. I hate J...Published: 12 Jan 2019 at 14:59hrs | 7174 | by Don Chigumba
War vets want bank
WAR veterans are pushing for the establishment of a bank to exclusively fund their projects, classifying themselves as a special interest group.Information obtained by the Zimbabwe Independent...Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:57hrs | 979 | by Staff reporter
War vets internal strife escalating
Internal strife within the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) is escalating with confusion surfacing on when the congress to choose the new leadership will be held....Published: 10 Jan 2019 at 12:23hrs | 2454 | by Staff reporter
War vets blast striking civil servants
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has blasted civil servants for demanding to be paid in American dollars saying the public workers were ignorant of the challenges the...Published: 07 Jan 2019 at 20:11hrs | 2082 | by Staff reporter
Masvingo war vets rally behind Mnangagwa
WAR veterans here have distanced themselves from the recent protest held by a group of people claiming to be ex-freedom fighters, saying they are fully behind President Mnangagwa's leadership. ...Published: 01 Jan 2019 at 10:46hrs | 176 | by Staff reporter
War vets would have considered Tongogara too immature to lead Zimbabwe!
The recent concerted efforts by veterans of Zimbabwe's 1960s and 70s liberation struggle to raise the presidential age limit from the current 40 years to 52 years, raises very pertinent questions as t...Published: 29 Dec 2018 at 08:56hrs | 5252 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Who Killed Tongogara December 2018 Analysis
I don't want to blame anyone for causing the death of Cde Josiah Magama Tongogara but I want to blame ZANU and ZANU PF leadership for failing to appoint a commission of inquiry in the post-independenc...Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 18:26hrs | 9979 | by Don Chigumba
War vets disown demonstrators against Mnangagwa
War veterans from across the country have disowned a group of members who demonstrated at Munhumutapa offices in Harare last week pressing to have their demands met.Zimbabwe National Liberatio...Published: 24 Dec 2018 at 20:01hrs | 2590 | by Staff reporter
Government respond to War vets demands
War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda has told the media that the government does not have money to pay the war veterans who demonstrated earlier this week demanding $2 000 every month....Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 07:51hrs | 5825 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matemadanda berates war vets who demonstrated against him
WAR Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda has berated some former fighters who challenged his liberation war credentials, saying he cannot be vetted in the streets.Matemadanda was reacti...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 07:05hrs | 2002 | by Staff reporter
Business skills training for war vets
THE National Business Council of Zimbabwe (NBCZ) has embarked on nationwide capacity-building and training programmes for war veterans to venture into sustainable income- generating projects with the ...Published: 21 Dec 2018 at 06:40hrs | 463 | by Staff reporter
War vets are worse than Zedera
The Secretary General of the former liberation fighters, Victor Matemadanda, is never short of coming with something ridiculous.What he smokes is a mystery .This time he is calling for a legislation t...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 19:16hrs | 3180 | by AT Kadada
ZANU PF Youth leader warns War vetarans
ZANU PF Masvingo Provincial Youth Chairman Brian Munyoro has warned a group of War veterans who staged a demonstration at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumutapa Offices on Monday...Published: 20 Dec 2018 at 11:02hrs | 5391 | by Collen Ncube
WATCH: ZBC scams and sabotages War veterans
Members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association has claimed the the national broadcaster ZBC received payment for an advert meant to invite association members to a demonstration ...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 09:28hrs | 3129 | by Mandla Ndlovu
War vets sue ZBC
An organisation calling itself War Veterans Welfare Group has dragged the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) to court, alleging breach of contract.In an urgent chamber application filed a...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 07:21hrs | 2266 | by Staff reporter
War vets demand $13.5 billion
As part of the resolutions passed at the just-ended Zanu-PF conference in Esigodini last week, it was agreed that members of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) be rewar...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 07:19hrs | 4680 | by Staff reporter
War vets storm Mnangagwa office
A GROUP of 20 former freedom fighters calling themselves the War Veterans Welfare Committee yesterday stormed President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Munhumutapa office to hand over a 10-page petition demandin...Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:15hrs | 1286 | by Staff reporter
WATCH: War vets call Matemadanda a bogus taxi driver
On Monday war vets aligned to Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa faction staged a demonstration against President Emmerson Mnangagwa and War vets leader Victor Matemadanda.Watch the video below:...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 17:23hrs | 6546 | by Mandla Ndlovu
PHOTOS: War vets demonstrate against Mnangagwa
Members of the Zimbabwe Liberation War Veterans Association faction aligned to Ambassador Chris Mutsvangwa on Monday staged a demonstration at the Munhumutapa offices calling for President Mnanga...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 11:08hrs | 16061 | by Mandla Ndlovu
War vets, stop milking an already dying cow
In a predicament such as this, where government's effort is all channeled toward reducing the ballooning expenditure its shocking and hard to believe that real citizens especially those who masquerade...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 11:05hrs | 1997 | by Isaac Nkomah
Mutsvangwa pushes for Transitional Authority?
Presidential advisor and War Veterans Leader Ambassador Christopher Mutsvangwa is reportedly pushing for the country to adopt a Transitional Authority to run the country. A top off...Published: 18 Dec 2018 at 10:04hrs | 16192 | by Mandla Ndlovu
War Veterans now Hated like Armed Robbers in Zimbabwe
Imagine living in a country run by Armed Robbers. The President, the Ministers, the Police, the Judiciary all being armed and ready to pull a trigger to defend their positions of power at any cost? Th...Published: 13 Dec 2018 at 09:31hrs | 1824 | by Multiverse Dungani
WATCH: Matemadanda laughs at Chamisa
In a circulating video on social media, War Veterans Secretary General Victor Matemadanda is seen laughing at MDC leader Nelson Chamisa saying he focuses on speaking in English only and does not have ...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 18:17hrs | 7329 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zanu-PF women target Chamisa over presidential age limit
THE ZANU-PF Women's League has joined war veterans in pushing for a constitutional amendment to raise the presidential age limit from 40 to 52 years. Members of the league from the country's 1...Published: 11 Dec 2018 at 05:47hrs | 2808 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa for life president?
A section of the ruling party is gingerly pushing for President Emmerson Mnangagwa to rule Zimbabwe for life to spite ambitious cadres within his party who are burning the midnight oil, plotting again...Published: 08 Dec 2018 at 14:51hrs | 940 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF youths against blocking Chamisa
The Zanu-PF youth league has come out guns blazing against war veterans who have proposed a controversial constitutional amendment of the presidential age limit - aimed at blocking opposition leader N...Published: 07 Dec 2018 at 14:31hrs | 7517 | by Staff reporter
EFF calls for Zimbabweans to resisist war vets move
Zimbabwe Economic Freedom Fighters have condemned the statements by the War Veterans Association calling for the revision of the Presidential limit age from 40 to 52.The organisation cal...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 12:54hrs | 3901 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Panic as Mutsvangwa throws Matemadanda under the bus
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association has been thrown into a panic mode after it emerged that the announcement by Secretary General Victor Matemadanda to increase Presidential age ...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 09:11hrs | 19196 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Matemadanda torches storm
MDC Bulawayo provincial spokesperson Felix Magalela Sibanda yesterday lambasted the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) secretary-general Victor Matemadanda over his comment...Published: 06 Dec 2018 at 05:59hrs | 2341 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa allies want presidential age limit raised to 52 years
War veterans yesterday moved a motion ahead of the Zanu-PF annual national people's conference to have the ruling party use its supermajority in Parliament to raise the minimum age for presidential as...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 15:17hrs | 394 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF Youths clash with war veterans
ZANU PF Youths have clashed with the Zimbabwe National Liberations War Veterans Association over the statements by the latter that the Zimbabwe Presidentail age limit must be moved from 40 to 52....Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 15:10hrs | 4034 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Bloodless coup against ZANU PF government just started
In October 2018, I wrote a piece claiming that the ZANU PF government will collapse within six months if the controversial President ED Mnangagwa is not going to form an inclusive government with Nels...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 07:50hrs | 24279 | by Don Chigumba
Mnangagwa supporters foil opponents
With factionalism refusing to die in Zanu-PF, anxious power-brokers in the party are scheming to keep President Emmerson Mnangagwa at the helm of both the former liberation movement and the government...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 06:40hrs | 1930 | by Staff reporter
War vets plot to block Chamisa
WAR veterans are plotting to force the ruling Zanu-PF party to make a constitutional amendment that will raise the age limit of presidential aspirants from 40 to 52 years, which would effectively bloc...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 06:02hrs | 870 | by Staff reporter
War vets endorse Mnangagwa
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association has endorsed the candidature of President Emmerson Mnangagwa for the 2023 harmonised elections in a show of confidence in his leadership. ...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:56hrs | 386 | by Staff reporter
War vets call for tough sanctions law
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans' Association has called for the enactment of laws that bar anyone calling for sanctions and economic sabotage from contesting elections in the country and...Published: 05 Dec 2018 at 05:15hrs | 372 | by Staff reporter
War vets ditch Chiwenga, back Mnangagwa for 2030
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has added its voice in endorsing President Emmerson Mnangagwa as the party's presidential candidate in 2023.The national exec...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 16:22hrs | 4304 | by Staff reporter
Linda Masarira blasts War Veterans
MDC-T spokesperson Linda Masarira is up in arms about the decision taken by War veterans to call for the revision of the minimum presidential age limit from 40 to 52 years. "In that case ...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 14:47hrs | 5919 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Chamisa targeted as war vets seek to raise Presidential age limit
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has called for a constitutional amendment to raise the presidential age limit from 40 to 52 years to ensure anyone who contests for t...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 12:57hrs | 3528 | by Staff reporter
War vets push for Presidential age limit to 52
The Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) has called for ZANU PF to raise the presidential age limit from 40 to 52 years.War Vets Secretary General Victor ...Published: 04 Dec 2018 at 12:51hrs | 931 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Plumtree dealers sell cement in US$
FORMER MDC legislator for Bulilima East, Norman Mpofu has urged Industry and Commerce minister Mangaliso Ndlovu, to rein in unscrupulous cement dealers in Plumtree who were rejecting the bond note and...Published: 03 Dec 2018 at 07:39hrs | 1060 | by Staf reporter
'War vets killed civilians to liberate Zimbabwe'
Former Home Affairs minister Obert Mpofu has come under fire after uttering statements insinuating former freedom fighters injured and killed civilians in order to attain Independence in Zimbabwe....Published: 28 Nov 2018 at 08:42hrs | 6398 | by Mandla Ndlovu
War Vets leader in Chiredzi against by-elections
NATIONAL political commissar for the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), Francis Nhando says the ruling Zanu PF party will lose to the MDC Alliance if the party recalls its...Published: 23 Nov 2018 at 05:44hrs | 661 | by Staff reporter
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