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Chiwenga will need a coup, or it will be over

Zimbabwean tenderpreneur and sanctioned businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei is now a Central Committee member, according to ZANUPF.This places him in pole position to become Zimbabwe's president as Emmerson Mnangagwa's chosen successor, unless…

Published: 09 Aug 2025 at 13:43hrs | | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Is Zimbabwe headed for another coup?

This season we are living in, it's not a time for a hairdo. People are perching on the edge of the cliff. There is a loud whisper drifting around, almost like a

Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 09:25hrs | 1 | by Tawanda Majoni

Mnangagwa miserably failed to utilise the coup d'Ã©tat dividend

Robert Mugabe on Herbert Chitepo (and a Rejoinder on the Missed Opportunity of the 2017 Coup)Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volum

Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 660 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara

Who actually overthrew Mugabe?

HISTORY is crucial for every nation. To know its future, a nation must know its past. I will briefly interrogate the coup that unseated the late former President Robert Mugabe. In 2017, Zimbabwe, for the second time in its choppy antiquity…

Published: 13 Jan 2023 at 20:01hrs | | by Nkwazi Mhango

Mnangagwa had a chance to be a Gorbachev, but he chose to be Milosevic!!!

Zimbabweans celebrating the fall of the late ex-President Robert Mugabe during the November 2017 military coup which brought President E.D Mnangagwa to power. Pic Credit; Google.Reader, Mnangagwa worked closely with the late ex-President R…

Published: 24 Jan 2022 at 20:36hrs | | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo Sr

Letter to my people: You're paying heavy price for coup

My Dear People, THIS week is a painful one for me, I almost didn't write to you because I feel so much pain.I know what you are thinking. You think it was painful because it marks four years since the military tanks forced Baba out.To the …

Published: 21 Nov 2021 at 09:16hrs | | by Dr Amai Stop it

FLASHBACK: Mnangagwa's November letter to Zimbabweans (2017)

My family was banished to Zambia when I was still in primary school for resisting the oppressive rule of the white minority regime in 1955. This action hardened my resolve for justice and black empowerment.I joined the United National Inde…

Published: 10 Nov 2021 at 12:45hrs | | by Emmerson Mnangagwa

Honouring Mbuya Nehanda was a coup for Mnangagwa

We, from the Zipra side of the Zimbabwe nationalist movement, do not agree with President Ammerson Mnangagwa on many issues, but on the issue of honouring Mbuya Nehanda, reclaiming our history and rewriting it to suit ourselves, we are in …

Published: 30 May 2021 at 07:50hrs | | by Kenneth Mufuka

Was November 2017 a false start for Zimbabwe?

THEN there was the incident in New York on 9/11, I drove into the garden of my daughter and her husband and they shouted at me to come and see what was happening.I walked into the house and saw the second plane fly into the twin towers on …

Published: 17 Feb 2021 at 20:19hrs | | by Eddie Cross

Zimbabwe now a Vampire State

A Vampire State is a country where anyone who gets to be the president ends up with much more wealth than before s/he became president. On the other hand the poor and working class are always left behind. The democratic requirement that a …

Published: 08 Jan 2021 at 18:54hrs | | by Sam Wezhira

How the Khupe coup resonates with the import of Excelgate

Thi's time last year, Excelgate was about to be published, in the ex-pectation, inter alia, that the MDC Alliance, in particular, would capitalise on the revelations therein, to both fuel their legal challenge against the Constitutional Co…

Published: 11 Oct 2020 at 10:11hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza

Criminals around President: How Zimbabwe revolution was hijacked (II)

THE first part of this series, which was published last week articulated the unconstitutionality of the military intervention in November 2017, which was a coup d'etat.This week, Part II of the series will interrogate:-The removal of the l…

Published: 28 Aug 2020 at 06:21hrs | 2 | by Jonathan Chando

Job Sikhala must stop behaving like a teaser bull

MDC-Alliance deputy national chairperson Job Sikhala, who has been arraigned before the courts on allegations of subverting a constitutionally-elected Government, is indeed, not new to controversy. It appears the motor-mouth MP has a way o…

Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 06:28hrs | 969 | by Isdore Guvamombe

Coup rumor against President ED Mnangagwa

There are allegations from the media that a coup against President ED Mnangagwa is imminent. This piece seeks to dispute such rumors. The rumors are created by President ED Mnangagwa and his team in order to diverge the focus of the citize…

Published: 05 Jun 2019 at 08:26hrs | | by Don Chigumba

The Graceless Fall of Robert Mugabe, the end of a Dictator's Reign

The title for this book is an attempt at a clever link between Robert Mugabe's dramatic and rapid fall from power in November 2017 and the political activities of his second wife, Grace, whose actions contributed immensely to this sea-chan…

Published: 10 May 2019 at 13:44hrs | | by Paul Hubbard

Minister Mathema's coup statement very unfortunate

After many Zimbabweans' lives have been plunged into deep impoverishment and great uncertainty by a series of price increases which have nearly become the order of the day since the declaration of Mnangagwa into office by the Con court las…

Published: 04 May 2019 at 20:09hrs | | by Terrence Wuragu

African Union hypocrisy

The African Union's condemnation of the military coup in Sudan exposes the hypocrisy of the organization. The chair of the AU Commission said it was not the appropriate response to the challenges facing Sudan and the aspirations of its peo…

Published: 15 Apr 2019 at 09:10hrs | | by ZimVigil

Zimbabwe's coup: Net gain or no gain?

The scene in downtown Harare, Zimbabwe, on 21 November 2017 was extraordinary.Thousands walked through the streets, cheering, waving Zimbabwean flags, greeting

Published: 08 Mar 2019 at 07:12hrs | | by Linda Thomas-Greenfield & Bruce Wharton: US Diplomats

Lessons from the Zimbabwe coup

PART ONEZimbabwean politics is characterised by the existence of schizophrenic public and private sector leadership. The structure of post-coup politics in Zimb

Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 10:01hrs | | by Brian T Kagoro

3 reasons why the Gabon coup failed

Military coup drums continue to beat on the African continent in 2019. At 4:30am on January 7, Lieutenant Kelly Odong Obiang, leader of the Patriotic Youth Movement of the Gabonese Defence and Security Forces, and a handful of soldiers sto…

Published: 11 Jan 2019 at 09:30hrs | | by Martin R Rupiya

No coups in 2018: Will 2019 be so stable?

THE past year may have felt politically tumultuous, between Saudi Arabia's brazen killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, the resurgence of authoritarianism in Eastern Europe and Donald Trump's unorthodox approach to the United St…

Published: 19 Dec 2018 at 06:31hrs | 437 | by Clayton Besaw

From November coup to austerity

We are back again to where Dambudzo Marechera was screaming, in an Oracle to the Povo, drawing harrowing pictures "Of lean harried squatters, . . . And fat pompous armed overlords." But we must leave the Vengere anarchist and look far, int…

Published: 29 Nov 2018 at 10:11hrs | | by Tinashe L. Chimedza & Tamuka C. Chirimambowa

One year after 'Asante Sana', coup sounds still rumbling

One Tuesday, November 14 2017, military elites took control of all security arms of government and moved tanks into Harare's central business district to take control of government. Four hundred and fifty-three consecutive months of succes…

Published: 19 Nov 2018 at 06:14hrs | | by Pearl Matibe

One year after Mugabe: A revolution still not televised

On November 15, 2017, Robert Mugabe, Zimbabwe's longest serving ruler was confined to his private residence in the affluent suburb of Borrowdale in Harare, Zimbabwe. This came as armed soldiers took control of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Cor…

Published: 16 Nov 2018 at 05:48hrs | | by Takura Zhangazha

One year after Zimbabwe soft coup

When Zimbabwe's army took power in a bloodless coup exactly one year ago, it promised to bring happiness back by ending social and economic suffering.The military said the coup was needed to "target criminals" around then president, Robert…

Published: 07 Nov 2018 at 15:03hrs | | by Tendai Kamhungira

Chiwenga poised to topple Mnangagwa, as another coup imminent in Zimbabwe

The 30 July 2018 harmonized elections were like no other ever held in the country for so many reasons, but the most outstanding was the huge difference between the two-thirds majority won by the ruling ZANU PF party, and the very slim 50.8…

Published: 13 Aug 2018 at 18:48hrs | | by Kudakwashe Sheddy Marangwanda

Zimbabwe judges, generals and post-coup dynamics

Soon after the toppling of former president Robert Mugabe in November last year in a coup and the ascendancy of President Emmerson Mnangagwa, High Court judge Charles Hungwe immediately ruled that the attendant military intervention was co…

Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 13:50hrs | 1740 | by Andrew Kunambura

Is Zimbabwe falling into the coup trap?

A coup d'Ã©tat, can be understood as the sudden and illegal removal of the incumbent using force or the threat of force.The "stroke of the State" as per the French translation is often a swift, surprise strike, emanating mainly from those …

Published: 11 Jul 2018 at 06:23hrs | | by Munyaradzi Ziburawa

After a real assassination attempt the following happens

After a real assassination attempt, the following happens:1. The president goes to a safe house and his location is not made known. In this case, the president is said to have gone to state House and then goes to visit the injured in a pub…

Published: 24 Jun 2018 at 17:43hrs | | by Social media

Jonathan Moyo appeals to Kagame, Mbeki, Mkapa to save Mugabe from coup persecution

Former Zanu PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo has appealed to the Rwandan President Paul Kagame, former South Africa President Thabo Mbeki, Benjamin Mkapa and other veteran politicians in Africa to intervene to save former Zimbabwean Presi…

Published: 26 Mar 2018 at 15:36hrs | | by Peacemaker Zano

Call it what you want Bob, it was time up!

Fragility of the body ultimately translates to fragility of the mind, as such Mr Robert Mugabe can be excused for gushing out nonsense from his delusional mind on the events leading to his ouster last November.But to think that his wife, G…

Published: 19 Mar 2018 at 05:58hrs | | by Daphine Zulu

Why does Mugabe not just shut up?

Robert Mugabe must never have imagined himself outside the Zimbabwean presidency.He was so drunk with power that his own family at some point actually thought Zimbabwe and Zimbabweans belonged to them.His SABC interview, organised by polit…

Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 09:19hrs | | by Staff writer

It was a coup d'etat, no doubt

My People, Finally the truth is out. I have said it before and I will say it again. Muri makwara! You are cowards!Since November you have been coming up with foolish attempts to try and sanitise what we all knew was a coup.What military-as…

Published: 18 Mar 2018 at 08:56hrs | | by Dr Stop It

Mugabe's appeal to sympathy only exposes his many evils

I wonder what part of the human emotion and body that Robert Mugabe and his handlers wanted to appeal to. It was certainly not the brain.(This article first appears on Hopewell Chin'ono Facebook Page and is published with his permission)If…

Published: 16 Mar 2018 at 15:21hrs | | by Hopewell Chin'ono

The problems we have with a coup imposed president

When Mnangagwa saluted Mugabe in Davos & Addis Ababa as our great founding who is like a father to him, he was of the assumption that the former President was at peace with the November 15th military takeover. The reality now must be d…

Published: 13 Mar 2018 at 09:47hrs | | by Memory Chatambudza

Was it correct for army to remove Mugabe

ALL those who doubted whether the Zimbabwe Defence Forces did the right thing, Robert Mugabe's rambling last Saturday is your answer. Countries are ruled via constitutions, but what if the ruler is breaking every aspect of that country's c…

Published: 05 Mar 2018 at 05:19hrs | | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Mugabe has NO right to talk about being removed unconstitutionally

All those who doubted whether the Zimbabwe Defence Forces did the right thing, Robert Mugabe's rambling on Saturday is your answer. Countries are ruled via constitutions, but what if the ruler is breaking every aspect of that country's con…

Published: 27 Feb 2018 at 13:20hrs | | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Mnangagwa can only be a disappointment

President Mnangagwa got a good hearing at the annual 'movers and shakers' jamboree at Davos in the Swiss Alps. People were curious to see whether he was another boring lunatic like his mentor Mugabe. They were quite reassured.Absent was th…

Published: 29 Jan 2018 at 07:22hrs | 868 | by ZimVigil

Peter Munetsi murdered on coup day

This Zhuwao Brief Reloaded (ZBR) is dedicated to the memory of the late Peter "Comrade Kasina" Munetsi.On this day, Saturday 27th January 2018, the family, relatives, friends and colleagues of the late Peter "Comrade Kasina" Munetsi are ga…

Published: 28 Jan 2018 at 15:07hrs | | by Patrick Zhuwao

Zimbabwe's Post-Coup President Heads to African Union Summit

Mere months after Zimbabwe's military coup, the country's new president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, announced he will attend the 30th African Union summit - this despi

Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 06:42hrs | | by Dewa Mavhinga

Curing the Zimbabwe coup: Polls or transitional govt?

Since our last opinion piece, it is evident that there is growing complacency about both what has taken place and what is likely to take place in the aftermath of the coup last year.If history teaches us one lesson about unconstitutional a…

Published: 26 Jan 2018 at 07:48hrs | | by Ibbo Mandaza & Tony Reeler

Chamisa is a Lacoste plant and mole in the MDC-T?

THIS second instalment of the ZBR comes in a week that has seen two notably interesting events that talk to the theme of the #2018Resistance. The first one was the statement issued by the MDC-T Youth Assembly wherein they said "Mnangagwa w…

Published: 14 Jan 2018 at 11:57hrs | | by Patrick Zhuwao

Beyond November 2017 coup, what is best for Zimbabwe: The army, president Mnangagwa or the people of Zimbabwe?

It is naturally a divisive question to show the integral component of what makes up nation building. In a nation and at any rate after the coup, the way forward is crucial to pull together until when reaching at the other stage. It is not …

Published: 18 Dec 2017 at 06:37hrs | | by Andrew M Manyevere

Jonathan Moyo is quite unlearned and uneducated

Professor Jonathan Moyo wrote an article where he professes quite profusely about the unconstitutionality of the army activities which resulted in the resignati

Published: 15 Dec 2017 at 08:17hrs | | by Noble Ngara

Shadowy Corridors of Zimbabwean Politics: All is in the hands of the junta government to decide!

Following the Team Lacoste Coup d'Ã©tat in November 2017, the continued relevance of Zimbabwean opposition political parties and their key alliances has entered a continuous road of uncertainties as their traditional political survival str…

Published: 12 Dec 2017 at 10:19hrs | | by Bekezela Gumbo

Money, Hospitals and the People under a CoolCoup Zimbabwean Regime

At this time last month, under the Dictatorship of former President Mugabe and his Crooked Finance Minister Chombo, at least I could sit on my computer and transfer my hard-earned cash to a needy relative in Zimbabwe from my Bank. Today, I…

Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 20:35hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri

Jonathan Moyo can pee all he wants - from outside

FORMER United States president Lyndon Johnson, who reportedly had a difficult relationship with the head of the Federal agency that preceded what is nowadays known as the Federal Bureau of Investigations, is widely credited as having found…

Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 06:24hrs | | by Staff write

Mugabe: 'The last political king of Zimbabwe'

A journalist for 20 years in Zimbabwe before he became a barrister, Brian Hungwe reflects on the occasion when Robert Mugabe snapped back at him after he asked the veteran leader whether he intended to retire.I begin with a disclaimer. I a…

Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 09:54hrs | | by Brian Hungwe

Mphoko: Here today, gone tomorrow!

History is littered with cases of presidents who served unbelievably short terms.Some lasted less than an hour, and others a few hours, days or months.istory is littered with cases of presidents who served unbelievably short terms.One of t…

Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 08:25hrs | 634 | by Staff write

Hope Jonathan Moyo now knows 'chine vene vacho chinhu ichi?'

WHEREVER he is, Professor Jonathan Moyo should know vakarumwa nechekuchera. As he reflects and takes stock with his G40 cabal, he should always remember James 1 vs 19 which says: "Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick t…

Published: 26 Nov 2017 at 08:25hrs | | by Bishop

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