Mugabe Promotes 22 High Ranking Military Officials, Several Linked To 2008 Violence

Mugabe Promotes 22 High Ranking Military Officials, Several Linked To 2008 Violence

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has continued rewarding high ranking military officials who were part of the army commanders who plotted his brutal campaign in the run up to the June 2008 presidential elections runoff. Mugabe this week promoted 22 senior army officials, including Cephas Gurira who rose from being a colonel to a brigadier general. Gurira was deployed in the Mhondoro-Mubaira in Mashonaland West to drum up support for Mugabe in 2008, after he lost the…

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‘Unity Of Purpose Is Needed Amongst Opposition Parties To Save Zimbabwe’-Biti

‘Unity Of Purpose Is Needed Amongst Opposition Parties To Save Zimbabwe’-Biti

  MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai this week cut a lone figure as he was flanked by representatives of small parties at the signing of a national electoral reforms agenda after most of the opposition leaders snubbed the event.   The poor response to the MDC-T-led lobby will definitely dim chances of a formidable coalition against President Robert Mugabe and Zanu PF in the 2018 elections.   Tsvangirai was left to ink his signature with a…

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Though Dangerous, Street Protests, Remain The Most Viable Tool Against Mugabe’s Oppressive Authority

Though Dangerous, Street Protests, Remain The Most Viable Tool Against Mugabe’s Oppressive Authority

OF LATE, opposition political parties have intensified their calls for mass action against President Robert Mugabe’s “failed” leadership. The MDC-T demonstrations are meant to force the Zanu PF led administration to deliver on its pre-2013 election promises top among them the creation of 2, 2 million new jobs. Inspired by the recent student protests in South Africa, coined around the FeesMustFall mantra, Tendai Biti’s PDP has also threatened to roll out its own MugabeMustFall demos….

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Preferential Bonus Allocation, Is A Flawed Security Strategy , For Mugabe, Zim1 Family & Zanu PF ‘Co-Gangsters’ Constantly In Fear Of Armed Rebellion

Preferential Bonus Allocation, Is A  Flawed Security Strategy , For Mugabe, Zim1 Family  & Zanu PF ‘Co-Gangsters’ Constantly In Fear Of Armed Rebellion

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has been slammed for “bribing” the armed forces through continuously awarding them bonuses ahead of the rest of the government workforce. Political opponents and civil servants groups say the unpopular decision has betrayed the veteran leader’s constant fears for an armed rebellion from within the country’s military. “It is clear that our government is afraid of soldiers. It tends to prioritise soldiers because they have guns,” Progressive Teachers Union of Zimbabwe (PTUZ)…

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‘What Mansion?.. I Can Go And Live Anywhere But Will Not change My Focus Or Ideas!’-MDC-T Leader-Morgan Tsvangirai

‘What Mansion?.. I Can Go And Live Anywhere But Will Not change My Focus Or Ideas!’-MDC-T Leader-Morgan Tsvangirai

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has insisted he is entitled to his Highlands home as former Prime Minister but claims he is a modest politician who could still live at his rural home. Since the period as premier, Tsvangirai has been ensconced in the luxurious property despite clamours for him to vacate the government house. Opponents insist he was not fit to continue occupying any state property while his comrades feel he risked compromising his integrity…

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‘Newsday Portraying Tsvangirai As A Dictator’-Luke Tamborinyoka

‘Newsday Portraying Tsvangirai As A Dictator’-Luke Tamborinyoka

The Movement for Democratic Change on Tuesday said the NewsDay newspaper has been publishing false stories about its leader Morgan Tsvangirai in a bid to “portray Morgan Tsvangirai as a dictator and as a party leader under siege.” Tsvangirai’s spokesperson Luke Tamborinyoka said “the mission is a well-orchestrated media crusade to attack the Morgan Tsvangirai brand.” Read full statement below: Today’s three separate stories in your newspaper attacking the same man leave no one under…

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‘Tsvangirai , Says I Will Never Join Biti, But Urges Him To Join Zanu-PF’

MDC-T leader Morgan Tsvangirai has said while efforts to forge a coalition with “like-minded” opposition parties is the way to go, he will never consider re-uniting with his former secretary-general Tendai Biti, urging him instead to consider joining Zanu-PF. Tsvangirai told hundreds of MDC-T supporters in Zengeza West yesterday that Biti and his People’s Democratic Party leadership should forge an alliance with Zanu-PF instead of continuously attacking his person. Mugabe”They have launched their party and…

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‘We Can Form The Next Gvt’-Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) ‘Elton Mangoma’

‘We Can Form The Next Gvt’-Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) ‘Elton Mangoma’

RENEWAL Democrats of Zimbabwe (RDZ) are not just another political party making up the numbers, but are a genuine contender to become the next government, party president Elton Mangoma has said. Addressing journalists at the Harare Press Club on Friday, Mangoma said he was presenting an alternative political party to Zimbabwe, which has gone 35 years under the rule of one party, Zanu PF. Mangoma was flanked by his party members Fortune Munyonga (Youth President),…

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Mnangagwa – Tsvangirai GNU Is Modern Day Smith – Muzorewa Internal Settlement!

Mnangagwa – Tsvangirai GNU Is Modern Day Smith – Muzorewa Internal Settlement!

The details of the secret talks between Zanu PF and MDC-T are coming. VP Mnangagwa will take from Mugabe in August 2016 and Tsvangirai will be enticed to join the new GNU mark 2 with an offer VP post plus a number of ministerial positions for his mates. “The grand aim is to destroy Joice Mujuru’s threats of forming an alliance with Tsvangirai in 2018, while using the MDC-T to canvass for economic recovery and…

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‘Mugabe Retirement, Mnangagwa Take Over, Tsvangirai Deputy & 2018 Suspended’,..Coalition Again?

‘Mugabe Retirement, Mnangagwa Take Over, Tsvangirai Deputy & 2018 Suspended’,..Coalition Again?

The country’s ruling party, Zanu-PF, is reportedly plotting to suspend the watershed 2018 Presidential and Parliamentary elections from 2018 to 2021, in a bid to buy political time to allow the fractured former liberation movement to repair and recover from feared collapse owing to intensified factionalism, and President Robert Mugabe’s succession fight, which has already split the party between VP Emmerson Mnangagwa and his ousted predecessor Joice Mujuru, The Telescope News, has reported. High level…

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