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Sunday, 06 January 2013 13:06
HARARE - The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) this week reportedly quizzed a top official from Industry and Commerce minister Welshman Ncube’s MDC party on allegations of recruiting army personnel into his party. Goodrich Chimbaira, Ncube’s national chairperson told the Daily News...Read More
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Friday, 04 January 2013 11:11
HARARE - Zimbabwe's security sector is moving to perpetuate its power through the forthcoming parliamentary elections, with at least six top serving commanders and scores of mid-ranking and retired officers seeking legislative seats. In a remodelling of an unprecedented scale, senior...Read More
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News » Chengetayi Zvauya, Parliamentary Editor
Thursday, 13 December 2012 13:33
HARARE - Electoral authorities say they are forging ahead with plans to allow soldiers and police officers to vote freely despite fierce resistance from some commanders. Zimbabwe Electoral Commission (Zec) commissioner Geoff Feltoe told the Daily News that the body is...Read More
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Thursday, 06 December 2012 11:04
HARARE - Some forces loyal to President Robert Mugabe are destabilising the country, marring a ceasefire brokered by principals in the coalition government, a lawmaker has said. Members of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC have planned rallies across the country, trusting...Read More
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Friday, 30 November 2012 11:36
HARARE - Government’s deployment of troops to the border with Mozambique to stifle possible attacks by Afonso Dhlakama, are welcome. Rebel Renamo leader Dhlakama has retreated to the bush exactly twenty years since the Rome Treaty that brought a devastating three-decade...Read More
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Friday, 30 November 2012 10:55
HARARE - Zimbabwe this week increased military presence along its 1 231km border with Mozambique to monitor the threat of armed conflict across the border. This follows the danger posed by renegade Mozambican politician Afonso Dhlakama, who has taken a rag-tag...Read More
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Wednesday, 17 October 2012 10:03
HARARE - Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s MDC has sensationally claimed that a core of hardliners in the military has taken charge of next year’s presidential election, but the army has rubbished the claims as “nonsense”. The army said it was clear...Read More
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012 10:28
HARARE - Zimbabwe is undergoing systematic militarisation of the public prosecution department, deputy minister of Justice and Legal Affairs has told the 7th annual Africa Prosecutors Association conference. Obert Gutu, the deputy minister of Justice and Legal Affairs said...Read More
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Wednesday, 10 October 2012 10:12
MUTARE - A magistrate has ordered that two Air Force of Zimbabwe officers who allegedly killed a suspected thief before burying him in a shallow grave in Marange should remain in prison. The two are accused of fatally assaulting suspected thief...Read More
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News » Richard Chidza, Staff Writer
Saturday, 06 October 2012 14:01
HARARE - Army generals have summoned traditional leaders in Masvingo ostensibly to celebrate a shadowy holiday called “Chiefs’ Day.” Traditional leaders have been decreed to attend the meeting at the army headquarters in Masvingo in a move that has raised...Read More
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Sunday, 19 August 2012 13:59
HARARE - A 21-YEAR-old Harare vendor has been spared a jail term after he was found putting on an army uniform, intending to deceive and impress his girlfriend. Harare magistrate Tayengwa Chibanda yesterday fined Givemore Hwata, after convicting him on his...Read More
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Wednesday, 15 August 2012 14:21
HARARE - It is quite evident that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and Zimbabweans in general have a problem with some of the country’s military generals, and which issues are unlikely to be resolved quickly or easily — even in the event...Read More
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Wednesday, 15 August 2012 01:05
HARARE - Uniformed forces yesterday invaded centres where civilian government workers expecting to undergo training as census enumerators had gathered, leaving the process in limbo. Chaotic scenes characterised several registration centres in different parts of the country, with security forces taking...Read More
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