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Fact-Checking Blessed Geza
A few days ago, war veteran Blessed Geza released a reckless and inflammatory video on YouTube, packed with baseless accusations and outright fabrications all in a desperate attempt to incite unrest....Published: 23 Mar 2025 at 21:03hrs | 5305 | by John Mbizvo
Assassinations, rituals, and power struggles within ZANU PF
Socialite and activist Susan Mutami has stirred controversy with explosive claims regarding internal conflicts within ZANU PF, alleging that state security agents were involved in assassination plots ...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 14:23hrs | 5084 | by Staff reporter
Sikhala says his enemies planning to assassinate him
Outspoken opposition figure Job Sikhala has revealed fears of assassination plots orchestrated by his adversaries.Sikhala voiced these concerns during the unveiling of his new political endeav...Published: 09 Feb 2024 at 07:02hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa bomb attack mystery deepens
Four years after President Emmerson Mnangagwa survived an assassination attempt it has emerged that a former soldier, who was convicted by the military for the grenade attack, was in India on the day ...Published: 24 Jul 2022 at 10:03hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Botswana rejects Iant Khama's 'outrageous' claims of assassination plot
The Botswana government has dismissed as "outrageous" claims by former President Ian Khama that his family is under siege and that there is a plot to assassinate him.Khama, who left Botswana i...Published: 05 May 2022 at 20:57hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa claims Zanu-PF plotting to assassinate him
Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) leader Nelson Chamisa claims Zanu-PF is plotting to assassinate him ahead of the March 26 by-elections.He said this while addressing yet another massive cro...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:41hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa fires warning shots
OPPOSITION leader Nelson Chamisa pulled a bumper crowd at White City Stadium in Bulawayo yesterday as campaigns ahead of the March 26 by-elections hit the home stretch.Chamisa, whose Citizens ...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:32hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's US$120k jackpot jolts Mnangagwa's govt
Any attempts to seize the bullet proof car that MDC Alliance supporters want to buy for their leader Nelson Chamisa will be illegal and an abuse of power, legal experts have warned.Chamisa's s...Published: 12 Dec 2021 at 20:16hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF ups anti-Chamisa onslaught
The onslaught on Nelson Chamisa continued yesterday, with Zanu-PF supporters protesting against the opposition leader and threatening to block his motorcade, barely a day after ruling party leader Emm...Published: 30 Oct 2021 at 15:04hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa opens up on private life
President Mnangagwa, who turned 79-years yesterday, called on Zimbabweans to be peaceful, united and most of all, be patriotic to develop the country. Speaking at his African-themed birthday d...Published: 16 Sep 2021 at 05:51hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Intelligence tactics, not juju saved Big Josh, says ex-aide
The late Father Zimbabwe Dr Joshua Mqabuko Nkomo is known to have evaded many assassination attempts by his enemies during the liberation struggle, hence the name Chibwe Chitedza.As the countr...Published: 01 Jul 2021 at 17:29hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mohadi: Tale of a brave man knocked down by ruinous sex
LIKE many of his contemporaries, Kembo Dugishi Campbell Mohadi - who hails from Mtetengwe area 40 kilometres west of Beitbridge border town along the Bulawayo highway - belongs to a generation which w...Published: 06 Mar 2021 at 08:03hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Army chef sidelined over nasty fallout with Mnangagwa's wife
THE commander of One Presidential Guard Infantry Battalion at State House, Lieutenant-Colonel Samson Murombo, was sidelined from commanding the parade at the Defence Forces Day commemorations on Tuesd...Published: 19 Aug 2019 at 11:57hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Plot to assassinate Ian Khama's rival exposed
The intelligence department in Botswana confirmed on Monday that there was a plot to assassinate the country's President Mokgweetsi Eric Masisi.This came ahead of this year's elections which w...Published: 05 Aug 2019 at 17:31hrs | 2 | by ewn
Chiwenga's health woes linked to Zanu PF's thickening internal assassination plots over Mnangagwa's successor
Vice President, Rtd General Constantino Chiwenga's perennial health problems are reportedly linked to the ruling Zanu PF's thickening internal assassination and counter-assassination plots among it's ...Published: 08 Jun 2019 at 07:07hrs | 2 | by Itai Mushekwe/Nancy Mabaya/Mary-Kate Kahari
Basic freedoms diminish under Mnangagwa reign
IDI Amin Dada Oumee (1923-2003), the late Ugandan dictator whose seven-year iron-fist rule gained notoriety for its sheer buffonery, brutality and repression, is infamous for coining the saying: "Ther...Published: 01 Mar 2019 at 18:44hrs | | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa targets Dewa?
Below is a response written by Zimbabwean billionaire Strive Masiyiwa to Mr Roth of the Human Rights Watch.I'm with the people of Zimbabwe, and my record is t...Published: 03 Jan 2019 at 19:24hrs | | by Strive Masiyiwa
Mugabe ally's home raided by gun-toting men
Independent candidate for Magunje, Godfrey Gandawa, yesterday said he is now living in fear after his family, including his mother, were temporarily abducted by four gun-toting men at his rural home i...Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 13:38hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 9 lives of a cat
THEY say there are many ways of killing a cat.But for President Emmerson Mnangagwa (pictured), who has survived several attempts on his life in different formats, the old cliche does not ring ...Published: 29 Jun 2018 at 10:33hrs | 1 | by Tatenda Chitagu
Blast at Zanu-PF rally raises more questions than answers
QUESTIONS abound over the weekend explosion that rocked a Zanu-PF rally at White City Stadium in Bulawayo. For starters, the Zimbabwean police seem clueless about both the cause of the explosion and t...Published: 28 Jun 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Lulu Brenda Harris
Mnangagwa was warned of 'assassination plot'
President Emmerson Mnangagwa was warned of a plot to assassinate him by a Twitter user Monomutapa. The tweet surfaced after an explosion went off at Bulawayo's White City Stadium where Mnangwa...Published: 26 Jun 2018 at 12:37hrs | | by A Mhlongo
Security breaches since 15 November Zimbabwe coup
Since coming to power through military assistance in November 2017‚ Zimbabwe President Emmerson Mnangagwa has sought to do things differently compared to his predecessor‚ Robert Mugabe‚ but that...Published: 25 Jun 2018 at 11:16hrs | 5 | by TimesLive
Welshman Ncube deputy in car crash with CIO agent
THE Welshman Ncube led MDC has claimed an assassination plot on party deputy President Edwin Mushoriwa who on Friday survived a car accident involving a member of the dreaded Central Intelligence Orga...Published: 23 Apr 2018 at 22:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsvangirai's armoured BMW X5 still at Lupane ZRP since 2008
Ten years later, the BMW X5 that was confiscated from former Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai in Lupane towards the June election rerun is still parked at Lupane ZRP since 2008 ...Published: 03 Apr 2018 at 15:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzembi 'hit man' freed on bail
A self-confessed hit man who testified to the police alleging a senior government official issued him an assassination order to take out former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi appeared in court...Published: 03 Feb 2018 at 08:50hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Arrested for exposing Mzembi 'assassination plot'
A self-confessed hit man who testified to the police alleging a senior government official issued him an assassination order to take out former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi has been arrested...Published: 01 Feb 2018 at 15:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mzembi assassination plot exposed
A self-confessed hit man has testified to the police alleging a senior government official issued him an assassination order to take out former Foreign Affairs minister Walter Mzembi.The offic...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 10:43hrs | | by Staff reporter
The unmaking of President Emmerson Mnangagwa's first 100 days in office
This remains as a devastating betrayal of what had passed the mark as a most seasoned and immeasurably impressive start for Zimbabwe's God-given miraculous survivor president, Emmerson Mnangagwa! Back...Published: 22 Jan 2018 at 19:10hrs | | by Reginald Thabani Gola
The inside story of Zimbabwe coup that toppled Mugabe
Inside State House in Harare, Robert Mugabe was in the tightest spot of his 37-year rule. Tanks were on the streets and troops had occupied the state broadcaster, from where the army had announced it ...Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 16:48hrs | 24 | by MacDonald Dzirutwe, Joe Brock, Ed Cropley
Mnangagwa and the theft of history
IT is with indecent haste that Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa has of late been seeking to flag his increasingly questionable presidential credentials and ambitions before Zimbabwe and the world. Th...Published: 16 Nov 2017 at 06:21hrs | 5 | by Dinizulu Macaphulana
Mnangagwa crushed
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday dropped the bombshell on his deputy and wartime personal assistant, Emmerson Mnangagwa, axing him from government for allegedly "consistently and persistently exhibit...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 07:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa feels the heat, Mugabe party suspends his four top allies
ZANU PF yesterday wielded the axe and suspended Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's four top allies in Masvingo and Midlands provinces, amid speculation that the purge was meant to weaken him in his p...Published: 28 Oct 2017 at 07:08hrs | 3 | by Staff Reporter
Grace openly tells Mnangagwa to quit
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe reportedly confronted under-fire Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa during a tense briefing ahead of a Zanu PF youth league national assembly meeting in Harare on Saturday and o...Published: 09 Oct 2017 at 10:02hrs | | by NewsDay Editorial Comment
In trying to 'baby dump' Mnangagwa, Grace will be crushed like a bug, she is
Grace Mugabe tells VP Mnangagwa he is only an appointee serving at Mugabe's pleasure and therefore can be fired at the drop of a hat. She too is any appointee but one Mugabe cannot easily fire....Published: 30 Jul 2017 at 20:39hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
Tsvangirai demands Mphoko apology
MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai is demanding an apology from Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko for his remarks that the former prime minister was once involved in an assassination attempt on the late nat...Published: 26 Jul 2017 at 08:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe's rich factionalism history
Reports that President Robert Mugabe all but threw his weight behind Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi in the succession race are quite telling as they do not only confirm the obvious fact that the l...Published: 25 Jun 2017 at 12:12hrs | 2 | by Mark Chavunduka
Mugabe on SA hit man's assassination list
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe and three South African ministers were the most prominent names on a list of people South African Elvis Ramosebudi allegedly wanted to assassinate, affidavits produced in court...Published: 06 May 2017 at 12:41hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wants Tsvangirai dead
The MDC has reacted angrily to threats by a State media columnist who said yesterday that popular opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai was only being saved from harm by the "grace" of President Robert ...Published: 13 Mar 2017 at 06:18hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
'Coalition done deal,' says Tsvangirai
MDC-T leader, Morgan Tsvangirai has almost tied down a deal for a possible coalition that is likely to present a single presidential candidate against veteran Zanu-PF leader, President Robert Muga...Published: 12 Jan 2017 at 06:14hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Trump calls Castro 'brutal dictator'
US President-elect Donald Trump says Fidel Castro was "brutal dictator", hopes Cuba can move to "free future"In a statement, Mr Trump said that while Cuba remained "a totalitarian island, ...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 16:19hrs | | by BBC
Fidel Castro dies at 90
Former Cuban president Fidel Castro has died at the age of 90 after a long battle with illness.The revolutionary leader's death at 10.29pm on Friday was announced on state television by his br...Published: 26 Nov 2016 at 08:39hrs | 1 | by SkyNews
Joyce Banda wanted to kill me, claims Mutharika
Malawian leader Peter Mutharika has reportedly claimed that former president Joyce Banda and her People's Party (PP) government wanted to kill him during the time when he was in the opposition....Published: 26 Sep 2016 at 07:17hrs | | by AFP
Malawi leader survived 5 assassination attempts
Malawi leader Peter Mutharika has said the culture of hatred resulted in him being hunted like a criminal at the time he was campaigning for the presidency.Mutharika said it was only by th...Published: 30 Aug 2016 at 08:33hrs | | by Agencies
The reincarnation of Nicholas Goche
THE readmission of former Cabinet minister, Nicholas Goche, into Zanu-PF last week proved one very old truth: That in politics there are neither permanent friends nor enemies, but only permanent i...Published: 12 Aug 2016 at 08:38hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Fear grips Mnangagwa allies
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's loyalists have reportedly scaled up their personal security, amid fears they could be the next assassination targets following the the death of suspended women's le...Published: 19 May 2016 at 07:05hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Political Ground Ready for A Split By 2018
Unrelenting succession battles that have turned into a tribal conflict within Zanu-pf is the short circuit needed to cause an explosion that will split Zimbabwe into two and deliver the birth of The R...Published: 16 Mar 2016 at 15:43hrs | | by Israel Dube
Mnangagwa faction disowns expelled youths
ACTING President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly distanced himself from three youths fired from the party recently, saying the trio have gone rogue and no longer represent his interests, close allie...Published: 13 Mar 2016 at 09:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Jacob Zuma assassination plot, man expected in court
Pretoria - A man who allegedly circulated an e-mail claiming high ranking officials and politicians wanted to assassinate President Jacob Zuma is expected to appear in the Pretoria Magistrate's C...Published: 07 Mar 2016 at 08:23hrs | | by Agencies
Zanu PF congress will be 'far from peaceful' nor does Mugabe deserve one - he made it a party of thugs!
President Mugabe has disregarded and violated Zanu PF and the nation's laws and constitution repeatedly, has ridden roughshod over the people's hopes and dreams, in his quest to stay in power at all c...Published: 08 Dec 2015 at 18:42hrs | | by Patrick Guramatunhu
Last year Oppah helped Grace 'baby dump' Mujuru she got a tearful reward!
President Mugabe is not the only one who is being bullied around by his wife Grace, she has all the bigwigs in Zanu PF on the cosh! Look at the large of senior party leaders have been attending her me...Published: 01 Dec 2015 at 20:49hrs | 3 | by Wilbert Mukori
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