TENSIONS are mounting within state security structures and government, as well as Zanu PF, over the role being played by the shadowy Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO)-run Forever Associates Zimbabwe (Faz) which has unconstitutionally seized control of the running of the 2023 elections to retain President Emmerson Mnangagwa and the ruling party in power. BY OWEN…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa’s financially struggling administration has given senior Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) directors US$350 000 housing loans each in a desperate bid to appease critical players in the electoral matrix ahead of the crucial general elections later this year. OWEN GAGARE General elections in Zimbabwe are usually run by security agencies in violation of…
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa recently dispatched Home Affairs minister Kazembe Kazembe (pictured) to attend a digital surveillance event in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) amid indications that the Zimbabwean government, which has been spending big on security and the acquisition of weapons, is planning to tighten monitoring of communications and internet spaces ahead of the 2023…