Post Tagged with: "Central Intelligence Organisation"

VICTIM: Kanengoni and a Zanu PF activist, Kizito Chivamba, pumped over six bullets into Patrick Kombayi’s (pictured) groin
News / Politics

CIO deputy director collapses and dies

The Deputy Director (Internal) of Zimbabwe’s notorious Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), Elias Kanengoni, collapsed and died on Wednesday. Nehanda Radio understands Kanengoni died at the West End Hospital in Harare in the evening.

Happyton Bonyongwe
News / Politics

Mugabe pampering African intelligence chiefs

HARARE – Robert Mugabe has embarked on an intricate charm offensive ahead of general elections as he hosts Central Intelligence and Security Services of Africa (CISSA) chiefs, sources in President’s Office says this is a daylight bribery mission.

CIO deployed to vet Zanu PF candidates
Elections / News / Politics

CIO deployed to vet Zanu PF candidates

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe, seeking to extend his 33-year stranglehold on power, has given the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) the nod to vet Zanu PF aspiring candidates countrywide ahead of the party’s primaries in preparation for general elections.

Didymus Mutasa (right) with the Iranian President
News / Politics

Iran helping Zimbabwe snoop on internet

Iran’s ostracized leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has upped the ante in relations with Zimbabwe with reports that Tehran is involved in a massive cyber training exercise of hundreds of Zimbabwe’s intelligence and military operatives Nehanda Radio has gathered.

The head of Zimbabwe Central Intelligence Happyton Bonyongwe, left, with Constantine Chiwenga, the commander of the Zimbabwean Army, centre, with Mugabe
News / Politics

CIO agent pressures company to fire aspiring MDC-T councillor

MDC-T aspiring councillor for Ward 10 in Duku village, Kingston Nyamayaro, was dismissed from his post as a security guard after a senior Central Intelligence Organisation officer pressurized the management.

CIO boss wins US$10 million WikiLeaks case
Courts / News / Politics / Scandal

CIO boss wins US$10 million WikiLeaks case

CENTRAL Intelligence Organisa­tion director-general Retired Major-General Happyton Bonyongwe yester­day won a US$10 million defamation suit against Africa Consolidated Resources boss Andrew Cranswick.

Norinco 9mm pistol
Courts / Crimes / News

Man sentenced to death for killing CIO agent

A 34-year-old man who shot and killed the Chiredzi Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) district head while trying to steal his vehicle has been sentenced to death.

ZBC Chief News correspondent Reuben Barwe
News

Barwe denied US visa to accompany Mugabe

HARARE – The US embassy in Harare has denied ZBC News chief correspondent Reuben Barwe a visa to travel to the 67th session of the United Nations (UN) General Assembly currently underway at the UN Headquarters in New York.

Former African National Congress’ Youth League leader Julius Malema addresses platinium miners at London-listed Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine Photo: AFP
News

ANC furious with Zanu PF over Malema

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF and some secret service agents have been fingered by South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) in a sinister plot to derail that country’s economy by fanning mines unrest.

Inspector Petros Mutedza
Courts / Crimes / News

Brother of murdered cop says Zanu PF killed him

The case in which 29 members of Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s party are being accused of killing a policeman, took a dramatic twist when the brother of the murdered cop accused Zanu PF and state security agents of killing him.

The head of Zimbabwe Central Intelligence Happyton Bonyongwe, left, with Constantine Chiwenga, the commander of the Zimbabwean Army, centre, with Mugabe
Lest We Forget / News

CIO agent terrorizing Midlands Province

A suspected member of the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO), who also holds a position in ZANU PF, is allegedly recruiting youths in the Midlands Province and using them to threaten anyone supporting the MDC with death.

Tariro Chipepera, who is the deputy director in the Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development, had brought her husband, Andrew Chipepera (pictured), a district intelligence officer in the President’s Office, to court seeking a peace order against him.
News

Woman sues CIO husband who can’t get it up

A Harare woman on Thursday left the court in stitches after she accused her CIO husband of abusing her because he feels insecure as a result of his erectile problems. She accused him of beating and insulting her in the presence of their children.

Tensions rise over army and CIO role in census
News

Tensions rise over army and CIO role in census

Members of the army, police and Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) are secretly being recruited to take charge of the upcoming national population census that will likely determine the constituency boundaries for the general next election.

At the occasion of the granting of the mining license, Anjin executives meet President Robert Mugabe and Minister of Defence Emmerson Mnangagwa
Business / News

Chinese managers sodomize workers at mine

A decision by controversial diamond mining firm Anjin Investments to suspend 1,500 workers, who went on strike demanding better pay and working conditions, has opened up a can of worms with several workers speaking out for the first time.

Only known photograph of Hong Kong businessman Sam Pa. In June 2012, a report from the international campaign group Global Witness alleged that Pa was quietly providing money to Mugabe’s regime in return for access to diamond mines and opportunities in cotton and property development.
Business / News / Scandal

Calls for probe into Anjin and Sino Zimbabwe

Human rights group Global Witness has recommended an investigation into the activities of mysterious Chinese business tycoon Sam Pa, diamond firm Anjin Investments and Sino Zimbabwe.