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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 14:43hrs | 1573 | by Hopewell Chin'ono

Mutsvangwa's Mugabe coup remark opens can of worms

Observers have criticized Zanu-PF spokesperson Christopher Mutsvangwa for speaking with a "forked tongue" following his recent remarks alleging that the late former President Robert Mugabe was removed from power because he sought to establ…

Published: 01 Jun 2025 at 15:19hrs | 1816 | by Staff reporter

Another coup won't solve Zimbabwe woes

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is currently at odds with a faction of liberation war veterans from the 1970s struggle for independence. This group has publicly pledged support for Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga and called for Mnangagwa'…

Published: 24 May 2025 at 10:59hrs | 497 | by Staff reporter

Ex-Zimbabwe farmer reflects on lost legacy

For Rory Duncan, a former commercial farmer in Zimbabwe, memories of the Eastern Highlands are both vivid and painful - a haunting contrast between prosperity and the aftermath of a country's failed land reform programme.Now living in Klei…

Published: 12 May 2025 at 20:03hrs | 1007 | by Staff reporter

Simon Mann dies

Former British Army officer and mercenary Simon Mann, who was part of a coup attempt in Equatorial Guinea in 2004, has died of a heart attack while exercising, friends confirmed.The 72-year-old made millions of pounds from protecting busin…

Published: 12 May 2025 at 19:58hrs | 1991 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa accused of plotting 'coup against the Constitution'

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is once again at the centre of controversy amid reports of a clandestine bid to extend his stay in office by manipulating the constitution - a move legal experts are calling a "coup against the constitution."Le…

Published: 23 Apr 2025 at 08:52hrs | 3651 | by Staff reporter

Man in dock for killing friend

Geza pushes govt into panic modeThe government has warned outspoken war veteran Blessed Geza that his days are numbered after he called for a two-day national shutdown to force President Emmerson Mnangagwa to step down. The controversial c…

Published: 22 Apr 2025 at 08:13hrs | 1933 | by Staff reporter

New book on Zimbabwe coup highlights gender factor

A new book by Professor Blessing-Miles Tendi, a leading academic in Politics at the University of Oxford, sheds light on a crucial but often overlooked aspect of Zimbabwe's 2017 military coup - the role of gender in shaping the political u…

Published: 06 Apr 2025 at 12:03hrs | 2050 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa recreates coup scenario

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is steering Zimbabwe into a political storm reminiscent of the volatile November 2017 period that led to former president Robert Mugabe's ousting, a senior war veterans leader has warned.Speaking at a press con…

Published: 28 Jan 2025 at 10:43hrs | 4684 | by Staff reporter

Mphoko kept a low profile

The opposition Zapu party has paid tribute to the late former Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko, who passed away last week at the age of 84, describing him as a humble individual who maintained a low profile despite his significant contrib…

Published: 09 Dec 2024 at 06:53hrs | 602 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa plotted coup against Mugabe for years, claims ex-CIO

In a startling revelation, former Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) Deputy Director General Lovemore Itai Mukandi has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa had been plotting the 2017 coup against former President Robert Mugabe fo…

Published: 21 Oct 2024 at 08:03hrs | | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans prefer democracy to military rule

A majority of Zimbabweans say they prefer democracy to any other kind of government, but only a minority are satisfied with the way democracy works in their country, a recent Afrobarometer study reveals.Majorities in the survey rejected on…

Published: 18 Sep 2024 at 08:11hrs | 189 | by Staff reporter

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 wish among many. These chaps will burst each other any time; but let them do i…

Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:25hrs | 2519 | by Tawanda Majoni

Mnangagwa plots divisive constitutional coup

ZIMBABWEAN President Emmerson Mnangagwa's strategy for a third term - practically a constitutional coup - is now gathering momentum and going full steam ahead after a brief retreat as the military regrouped soon after last year's general e…

Published: 04 Mar 2024 at 18:43hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's CCC vows to challenge 'judicial coup' that promises Zanu-PF a supermajority

Zimbabwe opposition on Sunday said it would challenge the results of "sham" weekend by-elections, which could give the ruling party enough of a majority to change the constitution.The south African country was due to hold nine by-elections…

Published: 11 Dec 2023 at 19:19hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa still squandering massive goodwill

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's promises to break with the past and chart a new path for Zimbabwe after the ouster of long-time leader Robert Mugabe are ringing hollow as the southern African nation further slides into an authoritarian stat…

Published: 28 Nov 2023 at 09:18hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

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, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)By Professor Arthur G.O. MutambaraIn private discu…

Published: 24 Nov 2023 at 16:49hrs | 47 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara

Student takes Zimsec to court over results

A FORMER pupil at Drake High School in Torwood, Redcliff, has taken the Zimbabwe Schools Examination Council (Zimsec) to court for allegedly failing to release his November 2020 Ordinary Level results.Blessing Mhlanga registered for 10 sub…

Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 06:57hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mobile telecom firms expand LTE network

Zimbabwe's telecommunication firms are drifting away from older-generation mobile technology in favour of faster fourth-generation wireless technology, which offers high capacity, faster download and upload speeds, according to the Postal …

Published: 18 Sep 2023 at 06:56hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabwe heading for political crisis, coup says foreign sponsored CiZC

AN umbrella body of pressure groups, Crisis in Zimbabwe Coalition (CiZC) says Zimbabwe is potentially heading towards another coup which will emanate from disputed and resolved poll rancour.This comes as the country held general elections …

Published: 27 Aug 2023 at 23:40hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Kasukuwere details how he survived 15 minutes of intense gunfire during Zimbabwe 2017 coup

FORMER Zanu-PF political commissar and 2023 presidential aspirant Saviour Kasukuwere has narrated, in a yet-to-be-published book, how he survived 15 minutes of massive gunfire during the 2017 coup that toppled late President Robert Mugabe.…

Published: 12 Jun 2023 at 08:07hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Biti warns of a coup

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) legislator Tendai Biti has warned the unconstitutional recruitment of agents from spooky Zanu-PF aligned group, Forever Associates Zimbabwe (FAZ) to allegedly tamper with the country's election process w…

Published: 01 Jun 2023 at 18:14hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

Chamisa's lawyer denies giving Mnangagwa counsel as coup debate rages on

Citizens Coalition for Change leader Nelson Chamisa's lawyer and close ally, Thabani Mpofu has refuted allegations that he was consulted by President Emmerson Mnangagwa after his legitimacy was challenged by Zanu-PF activist Sybeth Musenge…

Published: 03 May 2023 at 21:56hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

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

November 2017 military coup promises shattered

PROMISES of a break with the past and a new beginning, economic recovery, freedom, democratic re-alignment and prosperity by military commanders at the onset of Zimbabwe's  2017 coup as well as by President Emmerson Mnangagwa have vir…

Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 18:34hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Zanu-PF congress maintains 2017 coup hierarchy

"LOBENGULA comes back as secretary for administration," Zanu-PF leader, President Emmerson Mnangagwa announced on 29 October as he appointed the ruling party's top leadership at the recent congress at Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare. O…

Published: 20 Nov 2022 at 15:43hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter

Biti says state repression, corruption worse after Mugabe coup

Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) deputy president Tendai Biti says the November 2017 military coup that installed incumbent  President Emmerson Mnangagwa in place of late former leader Robert Mugabe has seen the escalation of human…

Published: 16 Nov 2022 at 19:39hrs | | by Staff reporter

Jonathan Moyo sings praises of Grace Mugabe

Former G40 kIngpin Professor Jonathan Moyo has showered praises on the former First Lady Grace Mugabe for assisting him and his colleagues to flee assassination in 2017 when they lost power to the General Constantino Nyikadzino Chiwenga le…

Published: 15 Nov 2022 at 21:16hrs | 8 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Tsvangirai's role in Mnangagwa coup exposed

THE ruling Zanu-PF has disclosed that the late MDC founding president Morgan Tsvangirai played a crucial role in "sanitising" the ouster of late President Robert Mugabe in a military coup in November 2017.Just before Mugabe resigned, Tsvan…

Published: 02 Apr 2022 at 07:05hrs | | by Staff reporter

Africa's acceptance of oppressive regimes fueling coups and terrorism

So, yet another African country has fallen to military rule! This time around - in apparent quick succession of one African government after another, particularly in the Western region - it was Burkina Faso, whereby the military detained p…

Published: 04 Feb 2022 at 15:10hrs | 1 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana

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 | 13 | by Nkosilathi Emmanuel Moyo Sr

'Armed robberies linked to 2017 coup'

EXILED former Higher and Tertiary Education deputy minister Godfrey Gandawa has sensationally claimed that soldiers and police officers implicated in recent armed robbers could have stolen the firearms from the State armoury or at roadbloc…

Published: 05 Jan 2022 at 06:01hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

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 | 20 | 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 | 19 | by Emmerson Mnangagwa

Africa: A complex trajectory and legacy of military coups

FOR their spectacular nature, coups always appear like new phenomena when actually they are an old military and political issue that dates back to the genesis of humanity.It is like that in the affairs of nations that if power cannot be ne…

Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:49hrs | 11 | by William Jethro Mpofu

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 08:50hrs | 3 | by Kenneth Mufuka

'Mnangagwa trying to coup-proof himself'

FORMER Deputy Prime Minister in the inclusive government, Arthur Mutambara has claimed that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "coup-based government" was not yet ready to surrender power to civilians."They committed treason in 2017, are they …

Published: 17 May 2021 at 06:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Zimbabweans celebrated a wrong move

WHEN President Emmerson Mnangagwa assumed power in 2017, he promised to change the political landscape in Zimbabwe through implementing good policies, listening to the people and respecting human rights. Unfortunately, his government is st…

Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 06:43hrs | 3 | by Leonard Koni

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 | 1 | by Eddie Cross

SB Moyo's infamous Mugabe coup speech

Fellow Zimbabweans, following the address we made on 13 November 2017 which we believe our main broadcaster, ZBC and The Herald were directed not to publicise, the situation in our country has moved to another level.Firstly, we wish to ass…

Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:48hrs | 4 | by Major-General SB Moyo ZDF spokesperson

SB Moyo: Mugabe coup anchor turned face of diplomacy

"We wish to assure the nation that His excellency, the President Robert Gabriel Mugabe and his family are safe and sound and their security is guaranteed," these were some of the words from the then Major-General Sibusiso "SB" Moyo.on Nove…

Published: 21 Jan 2021 at 06:39hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter

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 | 5 | 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 11:11hrs | 1 | by Ibbo Mandaza

A year after Mugabe's death

WHEN Zimbabwe's founding leader Robert Mugabe died exactly a year ago today, for many it was unimaginable any leader who comes after him would repeat hismistakes.Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe for nearly 40 years, carved a legacy of being a st…

Published: 06 Sep 2020 at 09:03hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Sikhala claims he is being victimised over coup rumours

Through his lawyer Jeremiah Bamu, Sikhala said he even confronted Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi in Parliament for allegedly spreading the coup rumours.Sikhala is fighting for his release on bail.Yesterday, the matter opened with his leg…

Published: 01 Sep 2020 at 15:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

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 07:21hrs | 3 | by Jonathan Chando

Major diplomatic coup for Zimbabwe

IN a major diplomatic coup for Zimbabwe, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame took the country's anti-sanctions lobby to leaders of the world's most powerful nations that convened for the Group of Seven (G7) summit in France last week.The G7 is …

Published: 01 Sep 2019 at 14:38hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa presents new coup-proofing measures

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa - under siege in the face of worsening economic hardships fuelling a groundswell of social discontent - is coup-proofing his regime by giving the security forces preferential treatment ahead of other public ser…

Published: 16 Aug 2019 at 08:28hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa unleashes CIOs on 'coup plotter'?

President Emmerson Mnangagwa is accused of sending members of the dreaded Central Intelligence Organisation to terrorise the family of Sitabile Dewa who is accused of plotting to illegally remove the constitutionally elected government of …

Published: 11 Aug 2019 at 09:32hrs | 14 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Mugabe ouster hatched in SA hotel

The toppling of an autocrat generally makes for enthralling reading. Two Weeks in November obliges in many respects.Keeping readers on tenterhooks and delivering on its promise to reveal, in thrilling fashion, "the astonishing untold story…

Published: 18 Jul 2019 at 21:36hrs | 3 | by David Gorin

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