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Chiwenga carries out hard coup against Mnangagwa.Senior officials of MDC have said that they do not want another military coup in Zimbabwe.Since the return of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga from China on Saturday morning, there has been speculation that the opposition is keen for him to lead another coup.Presidential Advisory Council member, Trevor Ncube claimed the MDC is praying for another coup: .So G40 chaps are praying Vice-President Chiwenga carries out a hard coup against President Mnangagwa.MDC are praying for same. Certain ZANU-PF elements hoping for same. Civil war once set in motion is irreversible.  We are messed up. We need Peace Makers.But top MDC officials, Fadzayi Mahere and David Coltart rejected the claims:.I can assure you that the #MDC is not praying for Chiwenga to carry out a coup against Mnangagwa.  That will only perpetuate illegality & violence.Our prayer is for a return to respect for constitutionalism and the rule of law. Chiwe...

Nelson Chamisa & Jonathan Moyo given advice by US officials, write to President Ramaphosa.Self-exiled G40 kingpin Professor Jonathan Moyo and MDC-ALLIANCE leader Mr Nelson Chamisa have allegedly written a letter to South African President Cyril Ramaphosa and selected SADC leaders requesting for them to push for exclusive dialogue between President Mnangagwa and Mr Chamisa, outside the Political Actors Dialogue (Polad).The letter dubbed “Open Letter to President Ramaphosa” was not sent through official channels, but has been distributed to five newspapers, among them the Sunday Times for publication on Sunday, Kenyan sources said.President Ramaphosa is especially targeted since he is taking over the African Union chairmanship in January next year.“ Chamisa and Moyo have agreed that they would not send the letter to the Presidents of Mozambique, Zambia, Malawi and Angola, claiming that ‘the regimes in these countries are as repressive as Zimbabwe.“Although they initiall...

MDC President Nelson 'Wamba dia Wamba' Chamisa faces arrest.MDC President Nelson Chamisa will be arrested if he holds public meetings without notifying the Zimbabwe Republic Police and getting its approval. This was said by Justice minister Ziyambi Ziyambi in an interview with the Daily News on Friday.He said:.“Under the new Maintenance of Peace and Order Act, you can’t do a demonstration without notifying the regulatory authority, and if they do that then they can be arrested.“If Chamisa carries on with what he said he can be arrested. He is out of order … you can’t do that and endanger other people who are doing their business.”.Police have been routinely banning almost all of the MDC’s planned public gatherings giving flimsy reasons for doing so.Nicknamed ”Wamba Dia Wamba”, after a Congolese warlord, when as a fiery student leader, he was expelled from Harare Polytechnic for a time because of his activism was a founder member of the MDC in 1999, becoming its yo...

All well-meaning Zimbabweans are happy that Vice President Chiwenga is back and looks fit.THE return on Saturday of Vice President Constantino Chiwenga from China where he has been on treatment for an undisclosed ailment for over six months has become the subject of much speculation and conspiracies in Zimbabwe. Social media has generated rumours galore, with users alluding that Chiwenga’s return from the Asian country had exposed the fragile nature of relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his deputy.Many have questioned the conspicuous absence of Mnangagwa and other senior government officials from the Robert Mugabe International Airport to welcome back home Chiwenga following such a long hiatus from the country.Conspicuouslys absent was also his wife Mary Chiwenga who has been seen in the country while her husband was holed in a Chinese hospital. “It is clear Chiwenga is an unwelcome visitor following internal squabbles in the ruling Zanu PF’” said a senior...

Mnangagwa and Vice President General Constantino Chiwenga SPEAK OUT.Vice President Dr Constantino Chiwenga says timely intervention by President Mnangagwa to engage his Chinese counterpart, President Xi Jinping, to facilitate his airlift to Beijing for specialist care and treatment prevented his “imminent death” and saved his life. In July, the President made the decision when VP Chiwenga was battling for life in the intensive care unit of a South African hospital.At the time, the VP suffered memory lapses, speech impairment and excruciating pain.However, in what has been an extraordinary recovery story, VP Chiwenga — who arrived home in the early hours of Saturday after a four-month absence — yesterday looked fit and agile when he received President Mnangagwa at his home. The duo shared a hearty embrace before an hour-and-half private engagement.Emerging from the meeting, a visibly elated President Mnangagwa, who was accompanied by First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa, explaine...

Robert Mugabe's neighbours forced to relocate cattle kraals as he traumatises them from grave.CONTROVERSY continues to follow former President Robert Mugabe to his grave, with his neighbours now being forced to relocate their cattle kraals to pave way for the construction of a protective precast wall at his rural Zvimba home.Mugabe died and was buried at his rural Zvimba home in September.When NewsDay Weekender visited the Mugabes’ homestead at Kutama a few days ago, about 200 workers were busy on site building the brick protective wall around the homestead where Mugabe’s remains are interred. The controversial protective wall came at a cost for some villagers as they were forced to relocate their cattle kraals to pave way for construction of the wall by Chinese contractors.A villager, Gibson Mareya, said they were summoned to the site by former First Lady Grace Mugabe early this month and told that their cattle kraals would be relocated to near Kutama Police Base. ...