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Former intelligence chief makes explosive allegations about Zimbabwe’s 2017 power transition in new memoir. Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his allies orchestrated the 2017 coup that ousted Robert Mugabe primarily to avoid prosecution for their alleged roles in the 1980s Gukurahundi massacres, according to explosive claims by a former intelligence chief. Lovemore Mukandi, who served […]

A Zimbabwean court has issued an arrest warrant for Bellarmine Chatunga Mugabe, the youngest son of former president Robert Mugabe, after he failed to appear for a court hearing. The 27-year-old was due to attend the Beitbridge Magistrate’s Court on Monday for a routine remand hearing, following his arrest two weeks ago on charges of […]

Harare- Political Think Tank, the Zimbabwe Democracy Institute (ZDI) says political militarisation has worsened during the post Mugabe era. In a report titled ‘Transition Politics In the Post-Mugabe Era: Public Perception on the Role of Military’ ZDI says citizens have been made to fear the military thereby hindering them from exercising their constitutional rights. “The […]

A court in Zimbabwe on Thursday appointed Robert Mugabe’s daughter to identify assets left by the late former leader so they can be distributed to his beneficiaries, his lawyer said. Zimbabweans are keen to know how much wealth Mugabe accrued during his 37 years in power. Many assume that he and his family amassed a […]

Zimbabwe’s former president Robert Mugabe has been laid to rest in the rural village where he was born, three weeks after his death at the age of 95. He was buried in the courtyard of his home in Kutama, about 90km (55 miles) west of the capital Harare. Mugabe died in a Singapore hospital on […]

Zimbabwe announced on Thursday that ex-president Robert Mugabe would be buried at his home village in Zvimba as requested by his family. The government said the family of the former leader, who died in Singapore on September 6 aged 95, “has expressed its desire to proceed with his burial in Zvimba”. “Government is cooperating with […]

EFF leader, Julius Malema has called on Zimbabwe’s leaders to respect the wishes of the late Robert Mugabe and allow the youth to continue to pursue his legacy. Malema has visited the Mugabe family in Harare to pay his respects. Mugabe died at the age of 95 from prostate cancer. His funeral was held more […]

The remains of former Zimbabwe president Robert Mugabe will be taken to his village for a wake on Monday, a family member said, as his final burial is prepared in about a month. Mugabe died a week ago aged 95 in Singapore, nearly two years after he was ousted in a 2017 coup that ended […]

Foreign leaders, supporters and ordinary citizens gathered at a national stadium on Saturday to bid farewell to Zimbabwe’s founder Robert Mugabe, after a week of disputes over his burial that have threatened to undermine President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mugabe, who ruled Zimbabwe for 37 years until he was ousted by his own army in November 2017, […]

Former Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe’s family and the government on Friday said he would be buried in about a month after they agreed to entomb him at a monument for national heroes in Harare. Mugabe died in Singapore last week aged 95, leaving Zimbabweans divided over the legacy of a leader once lauded as an […]