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Israeli soldiers killed in clashes with Hezbollah
Eight Israeli soldiers have been killed in combat with Hezbollah in south Lebanon, the Israeli military said in a statement on Wednesday. Three of those killed are commanders, and seven other soldiers...Published: 02 Oct 2024 at 16:40hrs | 1125 | by Staff reporter
Lupane benefits from ZNA medical outreach
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA)'s recent free medical outreach programme in Lupane District, Matabeleland North Province, has been hailed as a success, with more than 500 villagers receiving healthca...Published: 29 Sep 2024 at 11:16hrs | 59 | by Staff reporter
Army deployment causes alarm in Lupane
Tshongogwe villagers in Lupane, Matabeleland North, were gripped by fear after the unexpected deployment of a large contingent of soldiers to their area.Villagers have expressed alarm at the h...Published: 26 Sep 2024 at 17:32hrs | 2702 | by Staff reporter
Open letter: School of Infantry, Mbalabala
Dear Sir/Madam, I attended St Stephen's College in Balla Balla (as it was then) in the early 1970's. The school closed in 1975 and became home to the Zimbabwe School...Published: 22 Aug 2024 at 10:21hrs | 913 | by Dr Christopher Hunn
Zimbabwean villagers oppose Chinese cement plant
The Zimbabwe National Organisation of Associations and Residents Trust (ZNOART) has petitioned the government to reconsider the construction of a proposed US$1 billion cement plant by a Chinese firm i...Published: 22 Jul 2024 at 07:54hrs | 1448 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa to bury Mutsvunguma today
The body of national hero Retired Brigadier-General Romeo Daniel Mutsvunguma arrived at Charles Gumbo Barracks in Harare yesterday, in preparation for his burial ceremony today at the National He...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 04:04hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Mutsvunguma's body arrives for burial
The body of national hero Retired Brigadier-General Romeo Daniel Mutsvunguma arrived at Charles Gumbo Barracks in Harare yesterday, ahead of his burial today at the National Heroes Acre. President Mna...Published: 01 Jul 2024 at 03:50hrs | | by Staff reporter
2 SANDF captains killed in DRC operation
Two tactical intelligence captains from the SANDF who are part of the Southern Africa regional force (Samidrc) in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) were killed in a mortar attack on their logisti...Published: 26 Jun 2024 at 14:02hrs | 11 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe School of Infantry hold graduation in Mbalabala
Today, the Zimbabwe School of Infantry in Mbalabala is hosting a combined graduation parade for nine courses, presided over by Chief of Staff Major General Emmanuel Matatu.This marks the 88th ...Published: 31 May 2024 at 21:20hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army recruits general duty soldiers
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) is recruiting general duty soldiers in Matabeleland North Province.According to a statement, the army will recruit at; Binga Army Camp 25-26 March, Hwange 12 I...Published: 25 Mar 2024 at 18:52hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Army captain remanded in custody
A ZIMBABWE National Army captain Foster Nyasha, who allegedly robbed Chinese national Yao Jingjie of US$60 000, was denied bail by magistrate Tendai Mahwe when he appeared before the Mutare Magi...Published: 11 Mar 2024 at 04:54hrs | | by Staff reporter
Military realignments in the Zimbabwe military continue
As military realignments in the Zimbabwe military - that is appointments and removals - continue, more impactful changes are happening. Yesterday the commander of the Zimbabwe National A...Published: 06 Mar 2024 at 04:58hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe Defense Forces embark on nationwide recruitment campaign
The Zimbabwe Defense Forces (ZDF) has launched a comprehensive recruitment drive to bolster its ranks within the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) and the Air Force of Zimbabwe (AFZ).The ZNA is see...Published: 28 Feb 2024 at 18:42hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Zimbabwe army plays critical role in border control operations'
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has played a critical role in maintaining peace and security in Matebeleland provinces through border control operations, as well as combating stock theft, which were ...Published: 13 Feb 2024 at 04:42hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army modernisation a top priority
The modernisation of the Zimbabwe National Army's capabilities remains a top priority despite the prevailing economic challenges emanating from the illegally-imposed sanctions on the country by detrac...Published: 06 Feb 2024 at 04:34hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa cracks whip on top soldiers
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has reportedly cracked the whip firing seven high-ranking members of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) after they failed to rein in their subordinates who walked out on hi...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:55hrs | 12 | by Staff reporter
Umkhonto weSizwe fighter will never forget what a white man told him in Zimbabwe in 1980
I have no idea whether the white man I am writing about is still alive or not. He gave me an understanding of what actually happened to us Africans, and how sinister it was, when we were colonized. Hi...Published: 19 Dec 2023 at 13:11hrs | 11 | by Thula Bopela
Zimbabwe soldiers warned
Chief of Staff Major General Hlanganani Dube delivered the warning at a graduation parade of 335 soldiers who completed various courses at the Zimbabwe School of Infantry in Mbalabala yesterday....Published: 02 Dec 2023 at 05:41hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers cause stir in Gweru
HUNDREDS of soldiers have camped at a military base in Guinea Fowl, Gweru, stretching social amenities in the area where there are limited ablution facilities and erratic water supplies at a time ther...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 21:26hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army conducts drills in Midlands
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) is conducting a routine training exercise in the Midlands Province aimed at imparting knowledge to its members on contemporary warfare.Parts of the province wi...Published: 13 Nov 2023 at 05:46hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
How ZPRA, ZANLA were allocated camps in Entumbane
WE round-up our interview with former freedom fighter Lieutenant-Colonel (Rtd) Alson Masilinge Muleya. Lt-Col (Rtd) Muleya who trained as a regular officer cadet at the Zambian Military Academy in Koh...Published: 08 Oct 2023 at 07:51hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Chinese mines to be compelled to plough back to their communities
HWANGE Rural District Council chairperson Pasca Mpofu says his team's immediate task is to engage mining companies and compel them to plough back resources to their communities in order to foster deve...Published: 30 Sep 2023 at 19:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Joy as Zapu finally wins council seat
ZAPU finally won one council seat in Matebeleland South during the August 23 election for the first time in three decades.Zapu last won a seat in 1985 when the party was led by the late ...Published: 10 Sep 2023 at 08:59hrs | | by Staff reporter
Soldier up for US$90 robbery
A MEMBER of the Zimbabwe National Army, Arnold Nyoni (29), appeared at the Plumtree Magistrates Court yesterday charged with robbing a pedestrian of US$90.Plumtree magistrate, Joshua Nembaware...Published: 17 Aug 2023 at 06:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Thousands celebrate Defence Forces Day
Tens of thousands of appreciative citizens yesterday thronged various centres countrywide to commemmorate defence forces day with the main celebrations being held at the National Sports Stadium yIn Ha...Published: 16 Aug 2023 at 06:37hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Wife of original Zapu senior official dies
The wife of a senior original Zapu official and former Mines deputy minister Jini Ntuta - Emily Ntuta (nee Nyathi) - has died.Emily lived hell on earth as her husband, a fearless nationalist a...Published: 04 Aug 2023 at 08:34hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Russia mulls plan to display destroyed NATO hardware outside embassies
Moscow could place destroyed military hardware on display outside the embassies of Western nations that supplied it to Ukraine. The idea was floated in Russia's lower house of parliament, the State Du...Published: 12 Jul 2023 at 20:29hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe police urged to maintain peace throughout elections period
Police must maintain the highest degree of vigilance to guarantee maintenance of law and order as well as the protection of life and property before, during and after the forthcoming harmonised genera...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:19hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
'Maintain peace throughout elections period'
Police must maintain the highest degree of vigilance to guarantee maintenance of law and order as well as the protection of life and property before, during and after the forthcoming harmonised genera...Published: 06 Jul 2023 at 08:06hrs | | by Staff reporter
Rogue Zimbabwe soldiers to be punished
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) will not tolerate any form of indiscipline within its ranks and file and will not hesitate to punish anyone caught on the wrong side of the law, Commander Zimbabwe Nat...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 12:09hrs | | by Staff reporter
CCC goes for complete overhaul in Masvingo
Though there are reports of violence across the country, Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) party successfully completed its first stage of the long process of candidate selection for the 2023 harmon...Published: 08 Apr 2023 at 10:37hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army to recruit, train more women
COMMANDER of the Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA), Lieutenant-General David Sigauke, has said they will continue to train and recruit more women as they have proven to be dedicated, competent and determin...Published: 06 Apr 2023 at 06:40hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe military conducts free eye operations
THE Zimbabwe National Army, as part of its community assistance and in fulfilment of its secondary role of aid to civil communities, will this weekend conduct two days of free eye operations in Mutoko...Published: 27 Aug 2022 at 06:00hrs | | by Staff reporter
Ukraine now a weapons hub for international crime
At last, the West is beginning to realise what a monstrous mistake the European countries made when they started deliveries of lethal weapons to Ukraine.For experts, the situation had been cle...Published: 21 Aug 2022 at 08:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabweans commemorates Heroes Day
Zimbabweans from across the political divide, joined by Ministers, mayors and senior service officers, converged at venues across the country to commemorate Heroes Day and salute the fallen and living...Published: 09 Aug 2022 at 08:19hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF Matebeleland South official dies
THE ruling Zanu-PF in Matabeleland South has been plunged to mourning following the death of Evelyn Mpofu who was the vice-chair in the provincial Women's League.Mpofu, who passed on Friday wa...Published: 19 Jun 2022 at 10:06hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa praises UN award-winning soldier
TOP United Nations Award-winning soldier Major Winnet Zharare is a classic example of the impact Zimbabweans have around the world, President Mnangagwa has said.Major Zharare (39), was last we...Published: 01 Jun 2022 at 06:33hrs | | by Staff reporter
UN chief honours Zimbabwean peacekeeper
A Zimbabwean peacekeeper who recently completed her assignment with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), will receive the 2021 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award....Published: 25 May 2022 at 17:23hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa loses trust in lieutenants
FAILURE by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to fill key vacant posts of vice-president and state security minister signals that he has lost trust in his lieutenants as he seeks to maintain a delicate ethn...Published: 18 May 2022 at 18:48hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Russia warns US, Nato on arms transport
Russia will view US and NATO vehicles transporting weapons on Ukrainian territory as legitimate military targets, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the TASS news agency in an interview yeste...Published: 14 Apr 2022 at 06:32hrs | | by Staff reporter
Police recover AK 47 rifle, bullets in well
An AK 47 assault rifle with a magazine of 30 rounds and 19 automatic machine gun rounds of ammunition have been discovered hidden in a disused well at a primary school in Mangwe District, Matabeleland...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 06:41hrs | 8 | by Staff reporter
Defence Court sentences 3 soldiers to 15 years in prison
Zimbabwe Defence Forces General Court Martial has sentenced three soldiers to 15 years each in prison for armed robbery, theft and unlawful entry. In a statement, ZNA public relations director...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 12:15hrs | | by Mandla Ndlovu
Zimbabwe National Army court sentences 3 soldiers to 15 years
Three soldiers robbing and stealing around Masvingo were jailed for 15 years each by an army court martial last week after they were convicted of armed robbery, theft and unlawful entry, sending a cle...Published: 10 Mar 2022 at 05:52hrs | | by Staff reporter
US drafts plan for government-in-exile, guerrilla war in Ukraine - reports
The US and its allies are quietly working on "contingency plans" in case Russian forces succeed in their operation in Ukraine and force the current government into exile, the Washington Post reported ...Published: 06 Mar 2022 at 08:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
8 Zimbabweans on Interpol wanted list
EIGHT Zimbabweans, including a Bulawayo woman who is charged for fraud and corruption, are currently on the International Criminal Police Organisation (Interpol) most wanted list for allegedly committ...Published: 02 Feb 2022 at 05:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Army roped in to assist in arms cache probe
Police have requested the Zimbabwe National Army to assist in investigating the case in which 507 rounds of ammunition of a PKM machine gun were unearthed in a rusty box by a farmer in Magunje last Fr...Published: 25 Jan 2022 at 05:30hrs | | by Staff reporter
TelOne partners ZNA
STATE-OWNED telecommunications company TelOne has partnered the Zimbabwe National Army to modernise 58 sites countrywide under the US$1,2 million land-based network project.Speaking during the...Published: 15 Jan 2022 at 00:18hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army on health personnel recruitment drive
THE Zimbabwe National Army has embarked on a recruitment of health personnel in a move meant to further strengthen the defence forces medical team.In a Press statement, the ZNA said it is aimi...Published: 12 Jan 2022 at 04:25hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe soldiers sent for re-training after demanding salary hike
ZIMBABWE National Army (ZNA) commander Lieutenant General David Sigauke has reportedly sent junior soldiers on forced re-training in Hwange as punishment for demanding a salary increase during an oste...Published: 12 Oct 2021 at 05:58hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe to deploy instructors to Mozambique
A CONTINGENT of Zimbabwean military instructors earmarked for deployment to train Mozambican soldiers in the conflict-ridden northern parts of the country is currently on standby in Nyanga, while awai...Published: 18 Sep 2021 at 19:37hrs | | by Staff reporter
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