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Anti-Zimbabwe MP asks why UK lifted sanctions on Ncube and Sanyatwe
A prominent British legislator and long-time critic of Zimbabwe, Baroness Kate Hoey, has questioned the United Kingdom government over its recent decision to lift sanctions on four high-ranking Zimbab...Published: 28 Jun 2025 at 18:21hrs | 716 | by Staff reporter
UK softens stance towards Mnangagwa regime
The United Kingdom's Minister for Africa, Lord Ray Collins, has confirmed a softened and recalibrated UK stance towards Zimbabwe, describing a "new approach" focused on partnership and mutual respect ...Published: 12 Jun 2025 at 19:09hrs | 698 | by Staff reporter
UK Minister for Africa to visit Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe and the United Kingdom are set to deepen diplomatic and economic ties with the anticipated visit of UK Minister for Africa, Lord Collins, in what is shaping up to be a historic shift in relat...Published: 28 May 2025 at 12:16hrs | 679 | by Staff reporter
Isaac Moyo, Matanga, Sanyatwe, Ncube, ZDI removed from UK sanctions list
The United Kingdom (UK) has officially removed former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) head Isaac Moyo, Police Commissioner General Godwin Matanga, former army commander Anselem Sanyatwe, Minis...Published: 28 May 2025 at 10:42hrs | 182 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Defence Industries removed from EU sanctions
THE European Union Council has removed the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) from its restrictive measures imposed in 2002, but maintained its embargo on arms and equipment that could be utilised for ...Published: 20 Feb 2025 at 18:55hrs | 705 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwean CIO's role in Simon Mann's arrest
Happyton Bonyongwe, Zimbabwe's former Director-General of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), has disclosed details about Zimbabwe's involvement in thwarting a 2004 mercenary-led coup attempt...Published: 04 Dec 2024 at 16:21hrs | 2167 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to bury Tshinga Dube
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is today set to lead the nation in laying to rest Colonel (Rtd) Tshinga Dube, a national hero, former Cabinet Minister, and esteemed military strategist. Col (Rtd) Dube, w...Published: 09 Oct 2024 at 07:40hrs | 349 | by Staff reporter
Tshinga Dube dies
Colonel (Retired) Tshinga Dube, a prominent figure in Zimbabwe's liberation history and a decorated war veteran, passed away on October 3, 2024, at the age of 83. His son, Vusa Dube, confirmed the new...Published: 04 Oct 2024 at 08:52hrs | 1632 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF at its weakest since 2008
The Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) reports that Zanu-PF may be at its most vulnerable point since the 2008 general elections, largely due to factional infighting and skepticism about President Emm...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 12:02hrs | 1038 | by Staff reporter
Military cog undermining democracy in Zimbabwe
A recent report from the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) highlights the growing influence of the Zimbabwean military in undermining democratic processes and manipulating the country's electoral sys...Published: 11 Sep 2024 at 11:58hrs | 473 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's allies set in motion manoeuvres to amend Constitution
Allies of President Emmerson Mnangagwa are spearheading efforts to amend the Zimbabwean Constitution to allow him to extend his presidency beyond the two-term limit, which currently ends in 2028....Published: 27 Aug 2024 at 08:11hrs | 1130 | by Staff reporter
Hichilema: Absolute power corrupts absolutely
I could not believe what I was hearing. I tried to reassure myself that I was only dreaming. For the third time, I played the video and listened gravely. Again, the words fell like stones into the roo...Published: 15 Aug 2024 at 11:38hrs | 1026 | by Dr. Field Ruwe
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe appoints tainted Mpofu
TRUST, confidence and credibility of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) has been put at stake after the new central bank governor John Mushayavanhu appointed tainted banker Morris Bekezela Mpofu as hi...Published: 19 May 2024 at 11:54hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa scuttles Chiwenga's political plans
Zanu-PF co-deputy president Constantino Chiwenga, who harboured succession ambitions in the hope that President Emmerson Mnangagwa would step down after completing two constitutional terms, has been t...Published: 29 Feb 2024 at 20:35hrs | 82 | by Staff reporter
81 year old Mnangagwa's third term bid exposed
Ruling Zanu-PF structures are reportedly engaged in covert political manoeuvres to push for President Emmerson Mnangagwa's third term in office, it has emerged.Mnangagwa (81) is currently serv...Published: 20 Feb 2024 at 05:05hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF blasts EU for extending sanctions on Zimbabwe
Zanu-PF has jumped to the defence of Zimbabwe's security sector in its latest rant after the European Union's (EU) extension of sanctions targeted on Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI).Sanction...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:01hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
The year Mnangagwa tightened grip on power
The air crackled with anticipation on November 22, 2017 as Zimbabwe witnessed a moment etched in history.Emmerson Mnangagwa, the man once cast out, returned to his homeland not as a fugitive, ...Published: 31 Dec 2023 at 12:59hrs | 21 | by Staff reporter
CIO-linked company gets raw lithium export permit
THE Ministry of Mines and Mining Development has reportedly awarded a firm with suspected links to the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), Terrestrial Holdings, a licence to export one million to...Published: 08 Dec 2023 at 20:53hrs | 108 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC should address its own internal contradictions
THE Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI), an independent public policy think-tank, says Zimbabwe opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) should address its own internal contradictions that have ...Published: 21 Oct 2023 at 19:23hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Recalls meant to cement Zanu-PF's power, claims 'think tank'
The recent recalls of MPs and councillors affiliated with the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) by the party's "interim secretary general" Sengezo Tshabangu have been analyzed by the Zimbabwe Instit...Published: 14 Oct 2023 at 07:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa in strategic blunder
Opposition Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa announced that his party would temporarily withdraw from all council and parliamentary business in protest over the recall of 15 MP...Published: 12 Oct 2023 at 06:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa unleashes FAZ on NGO?
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly deployed shadowy Zanu-PF affiliate Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ) to intimidate and spy on non-governmental organisations (NGOs), a latest report by a lo...Published: 08 Sep 2023 at 06:34hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
G40 and Gamartox embrace Mnangagwa re-election
Former First Lady Grace Mugabe, the widow of Zimbabwe's late founding leader, Robert Mugabe, was in attendance at President Emmerson Mnangagwa's inauguration ceremony held at the National Sports Stadi...Published: 06 Sep 2023 at 06:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to contend with Zanu-PF factions jostling for power
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's final term is likely to be marred by intense jostling for power in Zanu-PF as warring factions jostle to position themselves for the control of the ruling party and the ...Published: 03 Sep 2023 at 21:24hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
'Zec captured'
LOCAL policy think-tank, the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI), has claimed that Zanu-PF captured the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) to rig elections.ZDI red flagged the composition of t...Published: 31 Aug 2023 at 06:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Faz backfires on Mnangagwa?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa's reliance on a shadowy organisation to spearhead his re-election campaign has come back to haunt him after foreign observer missions cited it as one of the plethora of th...Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 13:12hrs | | by Staff reporter
Chamisa faces a mountain to climb in his bid to remove Mnangagwa from power
Mufaro Boroma became eligible to vote under Zimbabwean law two years ago, but she will not be voting in her country's general elections on Wednesday."I didn't register to vote because I didn't...Published: 24 Aug 2023 at 08:08hrs | 23 | by Chris Muronzi
'FAZ heavily involved in electoral manipulation'
A recent study by the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) found that the deployment of Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ) into Zimbabwe's electoral processes was a key part of Zanu-PF's electoral manipu...Published: 20 Aug 2023 at 18:56hrs | 16 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe's Zanu-PF turns to dirty tactics
AN independent think-tank has exposed how the ruling Zanu-PF is increasingly employing "dirty" tactics against the opposition to manipulate electoral processes in its favour ahead of elections schedul...Published: 18 Aug 2023 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Supreme Court ruling, a wake-up call for Zanu-PF'
THE recent Supreme Court ruling reinstating 12 Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) aspiring Members of Parliament for Bulawayo is a wake-up call for the ruling Zanu-PF party, the Zimbabwe Democracy In...Published: 08 Aug 2023 at 06:49hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF has been brutally innovative and enduring in its survival and self-preservation methods
Local think-thank Zimbabwe Democracy Institute says the ruling Zanu-PF government has been brutally innovative and enduring in its survival and self-preservation methods, which include utilising the a...Published: 17 Jun 2023 at 17:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mahere's Geneva presentation rattles Zanu-PF
MAIN opposition Citizens' Coalition for Change (CCC) spokesperson Fadzayi Mahere's presentation at the high-profile Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy in Switzerland, which laid bare the cou...Published: 22 May 2023 at 08:11hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
'CIO, army seal off rural areas'
ZIMBABWE's security agencies have been accused of conniving with traditional leaders to turn rural areas into ‘no-go zones' for the opposition ahead of elections expected later this year.Acc...Published: 14 Apr 2023 at 07:36hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa ratchets up political persecution, claims ZLHR
THE Zimbabwe Lawyers for Rights (ZLHR), an organisation that protects and defends human rights through sustainable litigation, has raised concern over the continued prosecution of perceived opponents ...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 17:00hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe opposition facing worst-ever defeat in upcoming elections
MDC Alliance chairman Morgen Komichi has warned that the opposition in Zimbabwe might be heading for a disaster in the upcoming harmonised elections later in the year.Komichi said President Em...Published: 20 Mar 2023 at 09:46hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF continues to maintain its grip in rural communities - report
A local think-tank says the alliance between Zanu-PF and state institutions, coupled with a dependency syndrome shall continue to impede the opposition's efforts to penetrate rural constituencies duri...Published: 14 Mar 2023 at 18:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa regime sees lithium as Zimbabwe's get-out-of-jail card
High demand for minerals in lithium, driven by ion batteries for electric vehicles and other green technologies, may be Zimbabwe's sanctions get-out-of-jail card — or a get-rich-quick card for Zanu-...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:50hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF tightens grip on rural strongholds
The study also revealed rural impregnability was increased by fissures within Zanu-PF structures and a general economic meltdown.Zanu-PF has reportedly tightened its grip on its rural strongho...Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 07:17hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Kennedy Mandaza exits Zanu-PF SA District politics
INTERIM chairman and spokesperson of the Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) in South Africa, Kennedy Mapesa Mandaza, is leaving the dual role to contest for a legislative se...Published: 26 Feb 2023 at 17:33hrs | 101 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Ministers cornered over false promise to military
MEMBERS of Parliament on Wednesday cornered the acting leader of government business in the National Assembly, Felix Mhona, and deputy Finance minister Clemence Chiduwa over an unfulfilled promise mad...Published: 12 Feb 2023 at 11:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Reflecting on the export ban for raw lithium
Through Statutory Instrument 213 of 2022 (Referend to as Base Minerals Export Control for unbeneficiated Lithium Bearing Ores), Zimbabwe banned the export of raw lithium from the country. The regulati...Published: 31 Jan 2023 at 09:12hrs | 4 | by Victor Bhoroma
'Why was Army granted licence to export lithium ore?' - Not because ZDI is on sanctions, there're no investors
"Embattled state arms manufacturer, the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) has been controversially granted a special permit to export raw lithium by the government, a decision expected to inject life ...Published: 17 Jan 2023 at 19:21hrs | | by Nomusa Garikai
Zimbabwe elections already rigged?
CIVIL Society Organisations (CSOs) and opposition political parties have claimed that the recently released preliminary delimitation report exposed a rigging plot by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission ...Published: 16 Jan 2023 at 16:25hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF factional wars fueled by Zec
ZIMBABWE Electoral Commission's controversial preliminary delimitation report has created serious divisions in Zanu-PF as one faction believes that there are manoeuvres to sideline its members, it has...Published: 15 Jan 2023 at 11:21hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military gets permit to export raw lithium
EMBATTLED state arms manufacturer, the Zimbabwe Defence Industries (ZDI) has been controversially granted a special permit to export raw lithium by the government, a decision expected to inject life i...Published: 14 Jan 2023 at 16:28hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's CCC made loud splash in 2022
THE dawn of 2022, January 24 to be precise, marked the birth of a new political party, the Citizens' Coalition for Change, which has outdone itself in terms of branding and publicity in just one year....Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's foreign policy stuck in a time warp
ZIMBABWE'S foreign policy and international re-engagement drive has not shifted from the Mugabe era, as shown by the imposition of fresh sanctions on individuals, analysts have said.President ...Published: 17 Dec 2022 at 12:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt failing Zec
THE Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) has admitted failing to run elections properly, but has laid the blame on poor funding by the State.In its latest report on the March 26 by-elections, Z...Published: 30 Nov 2022 at 05:07hrs | | by Staff reporter
Another probe into AK-47 arms saga
GOVERNMENT has launched yet another investigation — the third one so far in as many weeks — into the controversial AK-47s arms import saga through Beitbridge Border Post which is now entangled in ...Published: 27 Nov 2022 at 15:00hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military shops for arms in Pakistan
A HIGH-POWERED delegation of military officers led by Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ) Air Vice Marshall Biltim Chingono was in Pakistan this month to inspect modern aircraft and armaments during a d...Published: 25 Nov 2022 at 18:22hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
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