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Comrade Geza, swapping Mnangagwa for Chiwenga will change nothing; most war veterans will remain poor as a church mouse

"Isu hatina kusafira vanhu vemezvibvindo. Takasafira povo yanetsva nevarungu. Ndiyo yavakusupwa nesu nhasi!" (We did not suffer for the few ruling elite. We suffered to free povo who were suffering from white colonial oppression. The same …

Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 20:37hrs | 2469 | by Wilbert Mukori

Mnangagwa allies suffer major defeat at War Veterans Congress

In a significant political shake-up within Zanu-PF, President Emmerson Mnangagwa's key allies among war veterans, Christopher Mutsvangwa and Victor Matemadanda, faced unexpected defeats at the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Asso…

Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:45hrs | 3621 | by Staff reporter

Ncube beats Matemadanda, Mutsvangwa combined

Bulawayo provincial war veterans' chairperson, Cephas Ncube, has been elected as the new leader of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA), unseating incumbent Christopher Mutsvangwa in a closely watched elective…

Published: 13 Oct 2024 at 12:28hrs | 413 | by Staff reporter

Matemadanda drags farming partner to court

VICTOR Matemadanda, Zimbabwe ambassador to Mozambique, has taken his farming partner, Rumbidzai Mujuru after she barred him from clandestinely selling their maize produce to the Grain Marketing Board (GMB).Matemadanda is jointly suing Muju…

Published: 30 Jul 2021 at 07:22hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Matemadanda's recall sets the pot boiling

Zimbabwe is settling to the news that the outspoken and imposing hardworking National Political Commissar Comrade Victor Matemadanda was relieved of his position and has been re-assigned a diplomatic position in Mozambique. The dominance o…

Published: 02 Apr 2021 at 22:34hrs | 4 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza

Mugabe buys vehicle for Matemadanda

Aspiring ZANU PF Kwekwe Central legislator Kandros Mugabe has been accused of buying the latest Toyota Landcruiser to the recently demoted party commissar Victor Matemadanda.Mugabe won the chaotic Kwekwe District Coordinating Committee (DC…

Published: 31 Mar 2021 at 09:31hrs | 11 | by Simbarashe Sithole

Power hungry DCC members causing chaos in Zanu-PF, says Matemadanda

THE newly-elected Zanu-PF district coordination committees (DCCs) countrywide have become battlefields for power-hungry members who are fanning divisions in order to ascend to senior leadership positions in influential party organs.Zanu-PF…

Published: 14 Mar 2021 at 06:05hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter

Of Zanu-PF and poisoning

0N August 11, 2017, at a rally in Gwanda, the then Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa fell ill, allegedly after eating ice cream which had been poisoned and spent over a week in South Africa under treatment. Reports at the time suggested th…

Published: 24 Nov 2020 at 04:33hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Matemadanda 'poisoned' as Zanu-PF infighting escalates

TENSIONS are high in Zanu-PF following the alleged poisoning of national commissar and Defence and War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda by rivals unhappy with the party's restructuring exercise.Some Zanu-PF members are said to h…

Published: 23 Nov 2020 at 04:52hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

Matemadanda in major climbdown, calls for dialogue

IN an unprecedented development, the Defence deputy minister and Zanu-PF national commissar Victor Matemadanda has been forced to make a major climbdown from a threat that Zanu-PF would use any means to rule the country even if it lost ele…

Published: 15 Sep 2020 at 06:18hrs | 5 | by Election Resource Centre

Deputy Minister Matemadanda visits the Injured Soldiers in Hospital

The deputy minister of defence who is the ZANU PF Political Commisair cde Victor Matemadanda last night visited two members of the Zimbabwe National Army who are admitted at West End Hospital in Harare, following a shootout with two assail…

Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 20:17hrs | 5 | by Dr Masimba Mavaza

Sell-outs will disappear, says Mnangagwa ally

DEFENCE deputy minister Victor Matemadanda has unwittingly exposed government's hand in the alleged abduction and forced disappearances of opposition and human rights activists after he bragged that "sell-outs will be dealt with and will d…

Published: 08 Sep 2020 at 06:36hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

'Zanu-PF VIPs sabotaging Mnangagwa'

FORMER Cabinet minister and liberation struggle stalwart, Rugare Gumbo, fears that President Emmerson Mnangagwa is being sabotaged by his senior Zanu-PF colleagues as he toils to fix the country's myriad challenges.Gumbo - who was controve…

Published: 31 Aug 2020 at 11:54hrs | 6 | by Staff reporter

MDC protests 'will not happen', claims Matemadanda

A series of planned nationwide protests by the MDC "will not happen", the deputy defence minister Victor Matemadanda declared on Monday.Matemadanda, who previously declared that the army would be deployed to crush the protests, claimed the…

Published: 13 Aug 2019 at 16:04hrs | | by ZimLive

Zanu-PF confident of victory in Lupane East by-election

ZANU-PF National Political Commissar, Victor Matemadanda, said yesterday the revolutionary party is certain that it will retain the Lupane East seat as its opponents are without vision. The party launched its campaign drive last month and …

Published: 02 Aug 2019 at 07:49hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter

Mnangagwa's allies revealed

In the Political space, a man needs worthy allies to help him consolidate power as well as keep the train on the rails on the economic front.President Mnangagwa might have political allies in the form of Victor Matemadanda, Energy Mutodi a…

Published: 04 Jul 2019 at 09:47hrs | 6 | by Nicholas Ncube

'Mugabe to blame for Zimbabwe crisis'

Zanu-PF's new commissar Victor Matemadanda has dismissed claims that his recent appointment was meant to address growing concerns about the re-emergence of factionalism in the party.President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week appointed Matemada…

Published: 16 Jun 2019 at 09:44hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter

MLF warns ZANU PF over Chief Ndiweni

Mthwakazi Liberation Front has warned  the ruling ZANU PF against threatening and doing any harm to Chief Nhlanhlayamangwe Ndiweni. In a strongly worded statement the party said, " We would like to warn Zimbabwe and ZANU not to dare t…

Published: 15 May 2019 at 13:34hrs | 15 | by Mandla Ndlovu

Matemadanda needs help

DO all war veterans need to be Zanu-PF supporters? Surely, Defence deputy minister Victor Matemadanda needs help.The war veterans are highly regarded as the people who brought the land back to their rightful owners, but the majority of the…

Published: 11 Mar 2019 at 15:01hrs | 1 | by Disgruntled Chimbwido

Gukurahundi haunts Mnangagwa

More than 22 years after the Gukurahundi massacres ended, that sad episode in Zimbabwe's history continues to rear its ugly head with the deputy minister of Defence, Victor Matemadanda this week rushing to defend President Emmerson Mnangag…

Published: 09 Mar 2019 at 12:31hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter

Confused Mnangagwa must spare us our hardworking doctors

What a big joke that the junta led government has suspended our striking doctors. Does Mnangagwa and Chiwenga really think well?, these two guys might be in need of mental medical check ups. Suspending these junior doctors will automatical…

Published: 27 Dec 2018 at 18:23hrs | 6 | by Knowledge Hakata

Matemadanda reacts angrily to Chamisa attack

MDC Alliance president Nelson Chamisa drew fierce reaction from an angry Defence and War Veterans deputy minister Victor Matemadanda after the youthful politician accused him of enjoying State feather-beddings and joining a rich elite whil…

Published: 05 Oct 2018 at 06:31hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter

Mugabe has to rejoin Zanu-PF from cell level, says War vets

War veterans recently held a Press conference and chided former President Robert Mugabe after the latter turned his back on President Emmerson Mnangagwa on election eve, saying he would not vote for people who tormented him last November.A…

Published: 11 Sep 2018 at 13:35hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter

Matemadanda is a national insult

Utterances by Matemadanda to the press leaves the whole nation, even his relatives appalled. This has also raises questions concerning the credibility of his status as a war veteran. The doctrine upheld by the freedom fighters during the l…

Published: 21 Aug 2018 at 19:18hrs | 2 | by Isaac Nkomah

For thine is the country, the power and the glory

The truth of the matter is, the powers that be will have it on their own terms. Remembering the sequence leading up to the November 2017 grand event will tell anybody who cares that the resolve of the men who rule us is as hard as a rock. …

Published: 27 Jul 2018 at 06:54hrs | | by Robert Sigauke

Mnangagwa meets war vets - LIVE

President Mnangagwa is today meeting war veterans, war collaborators and ex-detainees in Harare to discuss welfare issues and ways of strengthening Zanu-PF ahead of harmonised elections this year.The polls are expected by the end of July.Z…

Published: 11 May 2018 at 11:18hrs | 73 | by Staff reporter

The Victor Matemadanda story

A couple of weeks ago, I attended a seminar at the University of Johannesburg in South Africa running under the theme, "Zimbabwe: The Morning After", one of those events that you would expect after the heady developments that led to the re…

Published: 13 Dec 2017 at 05:08hrs | 3 | by Tichaona Zindoga

'Zimbabweans are useless Dogs'- President Mnangagwa.

It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a 75 year old Zanu leader to be a champion of change. Even by scientific evidence, a 75 year old who spent 50 years admiring and being mentored by Mugabe cannot bring chan…

Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 17:00hrs | 21493 | by Multiverse Dungani

They go fishing at Rotten Row Magistrates Court

The arrest of the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) spokesperson, Douglas Mahiya has exposed not only local pretenders but their counterparts from abroad.While I am not celebrating the arrest of Cde Mahiya and …

Published: 02 Aug 2016 at 09:39hrs | 2 | by Rufaro Mufundirwa

Matemadanda has lost bearing

On 16 March 2016, this writer gave lift to two young men from Kamfinsa to town. The two were so consumed in a heated debate on a headline in the Daily News of that day, so much consumed that they didn't even care to greet the Good Samarita…

Published: 17 Mar 2016 at 15:31hrs | 5 | by John Sigauke

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