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Tshinga Dube to be buried at National Heroes Acre against his will
Former minister and liberation struggle stalwart Tshinga Dube, who passed away last week in Bulawayo, will be buried tomorrow at the National Heroes Acre in Harare, despite his expressed wish to be la...Published: 08 Oct 2024 at 19:34hrs | 2399 | by Staff reporter
Ex-Zapu members form party
A NEW political party, Congress For Transformation (CFT), which comprises disgruntled Zapu members, has been launched in Bulawayo.CFT interim president Godknows Sibanda said they are planning ...Published: 14 Nov 2023 at 04:47hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF, CCC cross swords over Bulawayo decay
Zanu-PF Bulawayo chairman Jabulani Sibanda has courted the Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC)'s ire after he blamed the opposition-led Bulawayo City Council (BCC) for the decay bedevilling the city....Published: 13 Mar 2023 at 22:04hrs | | by Staff reporter
Knives out for Zapu's Nkomo
Knives are out against Zapu president Sibangilizwe Nkomo with some former top officials plotting his ouster for allegedly frustrating the growth of the opposition party.They also accuse Nkomo ...Published: 19 Feb 2023 at 18:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
The many political lives of Mohadi
WHEN the "Ides of March" devoured Kembo Mohadi as he stepped down as country Vice-President (VP) late February last year, many thought the epitaph on his political grave had been inscribed for eternit...Published: 05 Dec 2022 at 05:11hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF congress: Fireworks expected
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa will storm into next week's Zanu-PF elective congress seeking to tighten his grip on power as his age is likely to trigger a fierce succession debate.The ruling pa...Published: 24 Oct 2022 at 18:33hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of reversing Unity Accord
FORMER Ntabazinduna Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni says the late former President Robert Mugabe was far better in honouring the tenets of the 1987 Unity Accord than his successor Emmerson Mnangagwa....Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa to name General PV Sibanda as deputy president'?
President Emmerson Mnangagwa is poised to name Zimbabwe Defence Forces commander General Phillip Valerio Sibanda as his second vice president, former minister Jonathan Moyo claimed on Thursday....Published: 03 Jun 2022 at 09:04hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa mum on 2nd VP appointment
ZIMBABWE has clocked a year without a second Vice-President after Kembo Mohadi resigned in March last year following a sex scandal.The post of the second VP was created following the 1987 Unit...Published: 06 Apr 2022 at 06:33hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
ANC relates better with ex-Zapu ambassadors, says Tshinga Dube
FORMER War Veterans deputy minister Tshinga Dube has stopped short of blaming the anxiety faced by Zimbabwean immigrants in South Africa over expiring permits on President Emmerson Mnangagwa's "wrong"...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 15:03hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF excludes ex-Zapu members in new Politburo
ZANU-PF First Secretary President Mnangagwa yesterday reshuffled Politburo members with Christopher Mutsvangwa being appointed as the party's Secretary for Information and First Lady Auxillia Mn...Published: 02 Dec 2021 at 05:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Unity accord died with his father and Mugabe
A SPIRING Zapu president Sibangilizwe Nkomo, son to the late VicePresident Joshua Nkomo, has described the unity accord which his father and the late former President Robert Mugabe signed to end hosti...Published: 31 Aug 2021 at 06:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
2023 election and the reconfiguration of Zanu-PF
THE re-assignment of Zanu-PF Second Secretary Kembo Mohadi to run party affairs on a full time basis, signals a massive operational turnaround to the revolutionary function of the ruling Zanu-PF....Published: 20 Jun 2021 at 07:19hrs | 2 | by Dr Obert Moses Mpofu,
Tribalism row erupts in Senate over vacant vice president position
Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi accused a Senator of being a tribalist on Tuesday for claiming that President Emmerson Mnangagwa was marginalising Matabeleland and women by failing to appoint a new v...Published: 29 Apr 2021 at 08:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
SK Moyo too junior to be Vice president
In November 2017 Zapu Harare provincial secretary-general Elphacy Dube said the province was throwing its weight behind Khaya Moyo. Zapu Harare province jumped the gun and suggested SK Moyo without co...Published: 30 Mar 2021 at 16:26hrs | 1 | by Colin Khumalo
Ex-Zapu leaders anxious over Mohadi successor
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has not consulted former Zapu and Zipra cadres on the filling of the post of vice-president following the resignation of Kembo Mohadi over a series of sex scandals with va...Published: 20 Mar 2021 at 20:20hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa feeling heat over VP choice
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa faces a difficult choice as he looks for suitable candidates to replace his former deputy, Kembo Mohadi, who resigned under pressure on Monday.This comes as it has...Published: 03 Mar 2021 at 16:56hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mohadi citied wrong resignation law
KEMBO Mohadi cited a wrong section of the constitution while announcing his resignation as the country's Vice President, constitutional law Professor Lovemore Madhuku has said.Mohadi was hound...Published: 02 Mar 2021 at 20:05hrs | | by Staff reporter
Brigadier General Moyo died a bitter man
ZIPRA Veterans Association members, who mourned the late Retired Brigadier General, Collin Moyo, who died last Friday aged 66, said he died bitter over the marginalisation of the ex-Zapu military wing...Published: 13 Jan 2021 at 07:59hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Mugwadi's 'mischief' divides Zanu-PF?
The News Hawks reported that reckless utterances by Zanu PF Director of Information Tafadzwa Mugwadi against SA President Cyril Ramaphosa and the ANC, as well as on other issues, have divided senior Z...Published: 11 Jan 2021 at 16:57hrs | | by Staff reporter
'The path had to be set for Mugabe'
Last week, Farai Tafirenyika claimed there were Zipra cadres eliminated by Zanla combatants at the front during the ZIPA era. Levi Mukarati continues to seek answers on events surrounding the ...Published: 25 Aug 2019 at 08:41hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa hints on Dabengwa hero's status
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has strongly hinted that the former Zipra intelligence supremo and Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa will be declared a national hero following his death in Nairobi, Kenya, yest...Published: 24 May 2019 at 06:51hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa overruled politburo on Ncube hero status
Former Bulawayo provincial minister Angeline Masuku declared that she too must not be buried at the National Heroes Acre in Harare after the Zanu-PF politburo initially turned down a request to have M...Published: 06 May 2019 at 08:35hrs | 5 | by ZimLive
Zapu cranks up pressure on Mnangagwa
Scores of veterans of the liberation struggle who fought on the side of the Zipra - the military wing of-PF Zapu- yesterday converged in Bulawayo to explore ways of recovering their party's property w...Published: 01 Apr 2019 at 06:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zapu's seized properties now officially belong to Zanu-PF
THE Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu has reacted angrily to claims that its properties which were seized by the government during the early 1980s now officially belong to the ruling Zanu-PF.This comes...Published: 27 Mar 2019 at 15:20hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Should army generals involved in gukurahundi be brought to book? #Zimbabwe
REVERED wartime commander and Zimbabwe's first black military General Solomon Mujuru might have been aware the post-war atrocities that continue to evoke emotions to this day.Commonly referred...Published: 18 Nov 2017 at 05:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
New 'Ndebele king' trashes Zimbabwe's 1987 Unity Accord
SELF-IMPOSED new Ndebele King - Stanley Tshuma - has trashed the 1987 Unity Accord signed between Zanu-PF and former-PF Zapu, and declared that Matabeleland region would now be referred to as Mthwakaz...Published: 10 Jul 2017 at 07:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's Gukurahundi skeletons tumble
REVERED wartime commander and Zimbabwe's first black military General Solomon Mujuru might have been aware the post-war atrocities that continue to evoke emotions to this day.Commonly refe...Published: 28 Jan 2017 at 08:47hrs | | by Staf reporter
We are being silenced out of history: Ex-Zipra combatants
Ex-Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) combatants have accused the Zanu-PF government of deliberately denying them an opportunity to give their own narrative of the liberation struggle. ...Published: 10 Oct 2016 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru faces Gukurahundi graves visit backlash
Civil society groups in Bulawayo have urged opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) leader, Joice Mujuru, to cancel her planned tour of Gukurahundi victims' graves, saying the visit could trigger...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 07:27hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mujuru never condemned Gukurahundi'
CIVIL society groups in Bulawayo have urged opposition Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) leader, Joice Mujuru, to cancel her planned tour of Gukurahundi victims' graves, saying the visit could trigger a b...Published: 15 Sep 2016 at 07:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe never had free, fair elections, says Mugabe ally
Former Zanu-PF politburo member, Cephas Msipa says Zimbabwe's successive elections since 1980 have not been free and fair and has implored the authorities to change heart and try to pass credibili...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 16:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Msipa bares soul on Gukurahundi
AFTER widespread criticism that his long-awaited memoirs did not reveal anything new, particularly his close relationship with President Robert Mugabe, former Cabinet minister Cephas Msipa has opened ...Published: 26 Jun 2016 at 13:40hrs | | by Staff reporter
Nobody can destroy the Unity Accord
The historic unity accord signed between Zapu and Zanu PF in 1987 is here to stay forever. Neither Dumiso Dabengwa nor any other ex-Zapu member has the power to abolish or even put an iota of amendmen...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 12:21hrs | | by Mthulisi Sibanda
Zanu-PF women's league boss attacks Angeline Masuku
Zanu-PF Women's League deputy secretary Eunice Nomthandazo Moyo has launched an attacked on Senator Angeline Masuku accusing her of claiming to be the most senior Zapu member in the region....Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 06:18hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Mutsvangwa has gone rogue'
EMBATTLED war veterans chairman Christopher Mutsvangwa has gone rogue and wants to turn former freedom fighters against Zanu-PF, Women's League deputy secretary Eunice Nomthandazo Moyo said yesterday....Published: 14 Mar 2016 at 05:42hrs | | by Mashudu Netsianda
War vets push for Mphoko 'ouster'
War veterans in Midlands are lobbying Zanu-PF to reserve one of the Vice-President's slots for an ex-Zapu female member, a development that could inadvertently lead to the ouster of Vice-President Phe...Published: 10 Dec 2015 at 11:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Welshman Ncube's MDC behaves like Zanu-PF, says Zapu
The Dumiso Dabengwa-led Zapu yesterday accused Zimbabwe's opposition political parties of lack of commitment in working together to challenge President Robert Mugabe's Zanu-PF and solve some of the co...Published: 06 Aug 2015 at 14:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
VP Mphoko receive barrage of attacks over Dabengwa remarks
Vice President Phelekezela Mphoko has received a barrage of attacks from the People in Matabeleland after he attacked Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa saying the former intelligence supremo has soiled ...Published: 29 Apr 2015 at 05:16hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Mujuru-Dabengwa alliance on cards
Former liberation war commander and now Zapu leader Dumiso Dabengwa is mulling joining hands with a group of ruling Zanu-PF big-wigs deposed after acrimonious December 2014 congress to challenge ...Published: 18 Mar 2015 at 05:45hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru's allies regroup
Former Vice-President Joice Mujuru and her allies are regrouping to salvage their plot to topple President Mugabe with assistance from the US Embassy in Harare which has assigned CIA agent Mr Eric Ry...Published: 18 Jan 2015 at 08:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa, Mphoko accidents stage-managed
THE two recent road accidents involving Vice-Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko have raised a stink with political analysts yesterday saying the incidents appeared stage-managed to ...Published: 16 Dec 2014 at 08:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo congratulates Mphoko, Mnangagwa
LOSING Vice President post hopeful Simon Khaya Moyo who is now the Zanu-PF spokesperson and Minister of Economic Planning has congratulated his nemesis –Phelekezela Mphoko - who was picked by Presid...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 08:11hrs | | by Staff Reporter
ex-Zapu cadres wanted to scuttle Mphoko's appointment
NEWLY appointed Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko has revealed that some former PF Zapu cadres wanted to scuttle his appointment as Vice-President by claiming that he was not a card-carrying Zanu- P...Published: 15 Dec 2014 at 05:59hrs | | by Lovemore Mataire
Mugabe's delay in naming new Zanu-PF presidium fuelling speculation
President Robert Mugabe's inordinate delay in naming a new Zanu-PF presidium is fuelling speculation about the candidates that will be chosen to the top posts.In the week since Mugabe, 90,...Published: 09 Dec 2014 at 14:13hrs | | by Staff reporter
Khaya Moyo survives
Zanu-PF National Chair Ambassador Simon Khaya Moyo yesterday "lived to die another day" after some Matabeleland South provincial co-ordinating committee (PCC) members blocked a motion to veto his nomi...Published: 30 Nov 2014 at 12:49hrs | | by Staff reporter
Unity Accord 'dies' as ex-Zapu cadres are booted out from Zanu-PF structures
THE booting out of Matabeleland bigwigs who are senior Zapu members, but lost the Zanu-PF central committee positions is a clear indication that the marriage between Zanu-PF and-PF Zapu has finally co...Published: 28 Nov 2014 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu rejects Khaya Moyo for VP
ZANU-PF chairman Simon Khaya Moyo has suffered a major setback after the party's Matabeleland North province distanced itself from a meeting of ex-Zapu members that endorsed him to fill the vacant Vi...Published: 25 Nov 2014 at 19:15hrs | | by Staff reporter
'Stop using Zapu to campaign for Zanu-PF posts'
ZAPU leader Dr Dumiso Dabengwa has castigated ex-Zapu leaders still in Zanu-PF who he said are trying to win the post of Vice-President on a Zapu ticket.Addressing journalists at Bulawayo Pres...Published: 15 Nov 2014 at 17:04hrs | | by Oswell Moyo
'Callistus Ndlovu educated but empty,' says NK Ndlovu
ZANU PF Vice President race drop-out Naison Khutshwekhaya Ndlovu who has been in the past few days attacking his Matabeleland Zanu PF counterparts has slammed the party's provincial chairperson for Bu...Published: 23 Oct 2014 at 06:47hrs | | by Staff Reporter
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