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Mutsvangwa ousted
Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) members have unseated Christopher Mutsvangwa from the group's helm accusing him of unprofessionalism and failure to improve their livelih...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:34hrs | 8256 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt has forsaken Zipra war vets
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) war veterans have repeated claims that President Emmerson Mnangagwa's government has forsaken them, leaving them wallowing in poverty.Zipra was the...Published: 27 Apr 2023 at 06:27hrs | 554 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war vets get 35 mines
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa allocated 35 mines to war veterans two years ago to empower the liberation war icons, but officials entrusted with the responsibility to handover the claims have not done so amid a...Published: 10 Apr 2023 at 07:25hrs | 318 | by Staff reporter
Council, war vets clash over torture base
A group of war veterans from Matabeleland North are locked in a fierce battle with the Nkayi Rural District Council for control of an abandoned building that was once used as a torture camp for opposi...Published: 09 Apr 2023 at 11:30hrs | 279 | by Staff reporter
120 000 more join war vets gravy train
OVER 120 000 ex-combatants, including ex-detainees, have been successfully vetted to receive monthly pay-outs from government for their role during the country's 1970s liberation war.Governmen...Published: 07 Apr 2023 at 09:15hrs | 544 | by Staff reporter
Chinotimba says war veterans are not yet liberated
Outgoing Zanu-PF Buhera South MP, Joseph Chinotimba said war veterans needed to be liberated through a proportional representation in parliament.This comes after most war veterans lost their p...Published: 04 Apr 2023 at 06:51hrs | 4452 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets fume over Moyo's hero status
ZIMBABWE People's Revolutionary Army (Zipra) ex-combatants have lashed out at government for dragging its feet to confer hero status on one of the country's liberation war pioneers, David Moyo....Published: 24 Mar 2023 at 06:25hrs | 788 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt registers over 200 000 veterans of the liberation struggle
Following the launch of the first phase of vetting of the veterans of the liberation struggle by President Mnangagwa in 2021, a total of 207 103 applicants registered for vetting by the end of that ye...Published: 16 Mar 2023 at 16:04hrs | 323 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga will never rule Zimbabwe while Karangas watch
"Dunderhead", is how the biggest Zimbabwe gold smuggling syndicate describes Zimbabwe Vice President Constantino Chiwenga. It is fascinating that even the criminals are aware of this fact. His below p...Published: 12 Mar 2023 at 08:12hrs | 6259 | by Israel Dube
Cde Chiukira drops Mnangagwa's name to swindle Zimfep schools
Open letterTo whom it may concern Challenges faced by Zimfep Schools because of Gideon Chiukira (Director of Coordination)Zimfep stands for Zimbabwe Foundation for Education with Produ...Published: 24 Feb 2023 at 09:32hrs | 1319 | by Concerned parents
War vets should be vanguards of Zimbabwe's independence
Our war veterans should be at the forefront of condemning the institutionalised plunder of our vast national resources by a small ruling eliteONE of the greatest tragedies to befall post-colon...Published: 13 Feb 2023 at 05:20hrs | 249 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
War vets postpone congress
PRESIDENT Mnangagwa has advised the Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association (ZNLWVA) to postpone its Congress until after the elections as the ex-combatants lead in the campaigns for bot...Published: 10 Feb 2023 at 05:38hrs | 348 | by Staff reporter
5 suspects arrested for a series of armed robberies
The Zimbabwean Republic Police have confirmed arrests of five men in connection with 14 robbery cases which occurred around the country from January 2021 to the 2nd of January 2023.The five me...Published: 06 Jan 2023 at 13:26hrs | 1036 | by Mzingaye Nxumalo
Mthuli Ncube under fire over war vets payout
FINANCE and Economic Development minister Mthuli Ncube has come under attack for his plan to splurge US$57,5 million on war veterans, a gesture seen as shoring up support for the ruling Zanu-PF party ...Published: 27 Dec 2022 at 06:41hrs | 1091 | by Staff reporter
Golden handshake for Zimbabwe's war veterans
GOVERNMENT has handsomely rewarded war veterans by availing mining concessions to them to ostensibly boost its chances of turning the mining sector into a US$12 billion industry.The developmen...Published: 08 Dec 2022 at 05:10hrs | 1635 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's govt appeases war vets with $4.6 billion
IN a bid to appease war veterans, who play a crucial role in Zanu-PF election campaigns, the government has set aside ZW$4.6 billion to invest in farms, mining and tourism.Finance and Economic...Published: 04 Dec 2022 at 09:09hrs | 5625 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa must call war veterans to order
WHILE it is a public secret that Zimbabwe is a democracy where freedom of expression and freedom of thought are enshrined in the Constitution, it defies logic that a person who left the comfort of his...Published: 21 Nov 2022 at 04:58hrs | 466 | by Mambo Dari
'War vets hold Mnangagwa to ransom'
WAR veterans have cornered President Emmerson Mnangagwa demanding that he approves "commensurate benefits", including loan guarantees and rebates for duty-free car imports before they could back his r...Published: 07 Nov 2022 at 05:31hrs | 845 | by Staff reporter
Army General tells Zanu-PF to 'leash your dogs'
There was drama at Masvingo Zanu-PF Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) meeting last weekend after the newly elected Provincial War Veteran's chairperson Rtd General Gibson Mashingaidze told the P...Published: 17 Sep 2022 at 19:12hrs | 2949 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's call out to war veterans welcome
IT has come as really refreshing that President Emmerson Mnangagwa has decided, for once, to bridle some of his colleagues, the war veterans who have developed a serious penchant to make demands at ev...Published: 16 Sep 2022 at 06:12hrs | 726 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war vets demand Parliament seats
Zanu-PF's war veterans have told President Emmerson Mnangagwa to reserve seats in Parliament exclusively for the 1970s liberation war fighters to preserve the party's rule.Presenting the war v...Published: 15 Sep 2022 at 05:56hrs | 617 | by Staff reporter
War vets feel economic heat
Zanu-PF's war veterans league has called on President Emmerson Mnangagwa to improve their welfare because they are suffering due to socio-economic challenges.War veterans' children were turned...Published: 13 Sep 2022 at 06:01hrs | 611 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa says no to tribalism, regionalism
Government will intensify direct support to farmers through various programmes during the 2022/2023 summer cropping season to stimulate enhanced grain production and guarantee national food self-suffi...Published: 11 Sep 2022 at 10:12hrs | 2119 | by Staff Reporter
Zanu-PF War Veterans League endorse Mnangagwa as their sole presidential candidate
ZANU-PF's newly established wing, the War Veterans League has endorsed President Emmerson Mnangagwa as their candidate for the upcoming general elections next year.The league was formed to str...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 19:53hrs | 978 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF should cease tarnishing good name of our country's liberation war veterans
If I were to declare that teachers had resolved to support and campaign for President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa, for the 2023 elections - who exactly would these 'teachers' be?Is there any w...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 11:19hrs | 1237 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa orders war vets to scale up Zanu-PF campaigns
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday urged war veterans to scale up campaigns to ensure the ruling Zanu-PF party romps to victory in the 2023 polls."We liberated the country through our reno...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:25hrs | 430 | by Staff reporter
New league warns against reversing gains of struggle
WAR veterans yesterday warned the country's detractors and their willing tools in the form of puppet opposition parties that Zimbabwe's liberators will not sit and watch mischievous elements trying to...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:21hrs | 91 | by Staff reporter
War vets give Zanu-PF renewed strength
THE indomitable spirit of war veterans, coupled with their sacrifices over the years and sheer force of determination, can inspire Zimbabwe towards upper middle-class economic status by 2030, Presiden...Published: 10 Sep 2022 at 06:20hrs | 135 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabqwe war vets cry appeal to Mnangagwa for iInflation protection, medical assistance
ZANU-PF'S newly established wing, the war veterans league, has made a cocktail of demands to President Emmerson Mnangangwa to be hedged against the vagaries of inflation as the economy continues on th...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 19:55hrs | 458 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war vets to defend Zanu-PF rule
THE Zanu-PF war veterans league conference kicked off yesterday in Harare with the former freedom fighters declaring that they will stop at nothing in defence the ruling party.Speaking during ...Published: 09 Sep 2022 at 06:04hrs | 1218 | by Staff reporter
42 years on - veterans of the liberation struggle have nothing to cheer
As Zimbabwe celebrates forty-two years of independence on Monday the 18th of April 2022 it is a tale of unrelenting suffering for the majority of the nation's liberation heroes and heroines exce...Published: 02 Sep 2022 at 06:45hrs | 184 | by Jacob Kudzayi Mutisi
Mnangagwa warns 'dissenting' war vets
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa yesterday warned those interfering in operations of the newly formed war veterans' league, saying they must use correct party procedures to air their grievances.Th...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:40hrs | 866 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa warns divisive elements
AHEAD of the War Veterans League elective conference next month, President Mnangagwa has called for democratic contestation and acceptance of results, saying divisive tendencies have no place in the r...Published: 25 Aug 2022 at 06:33hrs | 104 | by Staff reporter
Opposition: Politics and Pisgah sight fallacy
A student of CultureAT heart and at soul, I am a student of culture.This is why I opted to read Literature at college, much of it drawn from the Western World.But that was to g...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 07:15hrs | 107 | by @Jamwanda2 on Saturday
Mnangagwa's govt dangles land to youths, war vets
LANDS minister Anxious Masuka has said youths are exempted from joining the waiting list for available land, a development that has been described as a campaign gimmick on the part of Zanu-PF as the c...Published: 17 Aug 2022 at 06:41hrs | 773 | by Staff reporter
War veterans backbone of Zimbabwe State apparatus, Zanu-PF claims
THE ruling Zanu-PF party has declared that war veterans are part of Zimbabwe's State apparatus, which includes the army and police.Addressing a Press conference in the capital last Friday, par...Published: 15 Aug 2022 at 06:42hrs | 388 | by Staff reporter
War vets cry foul over rigging
Former liberation war fighters in Mashonaland Central say there is an elaborate plan to rig elections for a new Zimbabwe National Liberation Association (ZNLWA) executive.The former fighters f...Published: 14 Aug 2022 at 07:25hrs | 1409 | by Staff reporter
All set for Zanu-PF war vets league district polls
All is set for the district elections of the Zanu-PF War Veterans League being held today across the country, with only Masvingo Province postponing their polls until tomorrow.Zanu-PF National...Published: 13 Aug 2022 at 07:22hrs | 78 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF doesn't own war vets, says Zipra
ZIPRA war veterans have implored fellow former 1970s guerrilla war fighters not to be coerced by the ruling Zanu-PF party into committing acts of violence ahead of the 2023 elections."Zanu-PF ...Published: 20 Jul 2022 at 06:42hrs | 948 | by Staff reporter
Zipra war vets engage police over regalia
ZIPRA war veterans are seeking an audience with the police to help prevent possible future standoffs over their yellow regalia.The development comes a fortnight after police clashed with the w...Published: 15 Jul 2022 at 09:09hrs | 647 | by Staff reporter
War vets divided ahead of elective congress
NEW rules set by the ruling Zanu-PF party for the maiden Veterans of the Liberation Struggle League elective congress have irked some of the former liberation fighters.The war veterans are unh...Published: 14 Jul 2022 at 07:34hrs | 913 | by Staff reporter
War vets pledged to put Zanu-PF first and ensure that Mnangagwa wins by a landslide
VETERANS of the Liberations Struggle League (VLSL) in Mashonaland Central have pledged to put Zanu-PF first and ensure that President Mnangagwa, who has given them a special place in the ruling party,...Published: 13 Jul 2022 at 07:19hrs | 397 | by Staff reporter
War vets indaba on the cards
PREPARATIONS for the Veterans of the Liberation Struggle League's maiden conference set for the first week of August are at an advanced stage, Zanu-PF National Chairman Oppah Muchinguri-Kashiri has sa...Published: 08 Jul 2022 at 07:32hrs | 224 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe war veterans in witch-hunt
WAR veterans are re-structuring in an exercise expected to claim some scalps to weed out "rogue" elements that "could disrupt" President Emmerson Mnangagwa's chances of being re-elected next year....Published: 29 Jun 2022 at 07:50hrs | 928 | by Staff reporter
Obert Mpofu, war vets square off over Zipra properties
ZIPRA veterans in Matabeleland North have demanded that Zanu-PF secretary for administration Obert Mpofu must visit the province to show them some Zipra properties, which he claims he bought in Nyaman...Published: 22 Jun 2022 at 06:48hrs | 2039 | by Staff reporter
War vets attempt to block CCC meeting
OPPOSITION Citizens Coalition for Change (CCC) has claimed that war veterans in Mangubo village, Plumtree in Matabeleland South province, vainly tried to block its meeting last week.CCC ...Published: 15 Jun 2022 at 07:39hrs | 2031 | by Staff reporter
Ex-ZANLA combatant awarded war-vets compensation dating back to 1997
A former combatant of the ZANLA guerrilla army, Marshall Rex Sibanda, has won a case in which he demanded to be registered as a war veteran and awarded compensation.Sibanda, a war veteran and ...Published: 14 Jun 2022 at 06:44hrs | 1663 | by Staff reporter
War vets get promotions
WAR veterans employed by the Bulawayo City Council will be promoted one grade up upon retirement and receive packages equivalent to the new grade.This comes after the war veterans, through their r...Published: 12 Jun 2022 at 08:30hrs | 259 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa accused of capturing judiciary
MTHWAKAZI Republic Party (MRP) leader, Mqondisi Moyo, has accused President Emmerson Mnangagwa of capturing the judiciary and imprisoning his supporters Gukurahundi-style.In a strongly worded ...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:14hrs | 2114 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa deploys war vets battalion
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has turned to ex-combatants to lead mass mobilisation campaigns as fears of a possible electoral defeat in the 2023 elections send tremors down Zanu-PF corridors.G...Published: 11 Jun 2022 at 09:13hrs | 1754 | by Staff reporter
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