Post Tagged with: "CIO"

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.

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.

Didymus Mutasa
News / Politics / Violence

CIO agents visit Maisiri over son’s death

Four CIO operatives on Tuesday visited the home of Shepherd Maisiri in Headlands, the scene of the gruesome death of his son, Christpower in a suspected arson attack. He will be buried on Thursday in Dzikiti village, his father confirmed.

Gukurahundi Massacres: The 5 Brigade and CIO (Part 12)
Gukurahundi Massacres / Lest We Forget / News / Politics

Gukurahundi Massacres: The 5 Brigade and CIO (Part 12)

People were on occasion made to lie on thorny branches first, after which 5 Brigade ran along their backs to embed the thorns before the beatings. People were made to roll in and out of water while being beaten, sometimes naked.

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.

Zimbabwe draft constitution is taken to parliament. In this picture is Douglas Mwonzora (MDC-T co-chair of COPAC), Edna Madzongwe (Senate President from Zanu PF), Lovemore Moyo (Speaker of Parliament from MDC-T) and Paul Mangwana (Zanu PF co-chair of COPAC)
Courts / News

CIO agent in bid to stop constitutional conference

It has been alleged that ‘political analyst’ Danny Musukuma, who filed an urgent application at the High Court in Harare to stop the holding of the Second All-Stakeholders Conference, is a CIO operative.

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.

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.

Some of the participants showcase their need to see genuine reforms in a free and democratic Zimbabwe
News / Statements

Police crush protest by youths in Masvingo

Masvingo today witnessed a bizarre incident as two trucks full of members of the CIO crushed and assaulted Community Tolerance Reconciliation and Development (COTRAD) activists who took to the streets to mark 4 years after the June 2008 Zanu PF reign of terror.

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.

A few generals cannot hold Zimbabwe to ransom
News / Opinion

A few generals cannot hold Zimbabwe to ransom

“How about a challenging and rewarding career in the service of your country” was a catch-phrase on Air Force of Zimbabwe’s job adverts which, many years ago, could easily attract the eye of a curious and adventurous youngster across the racial and ethnic divide.

Tracy Mutinhiri, a former ZANU PF deputy minister and MP for Marondera East joined the MDC-T a few days after she was expelled from the former ruling party in August last year
News

Former Zanu PF minister confirms killings

Many officials in ZANU PF have considered jumping ship and joining other political parties, but a fear of reprisals has stopped them from doing so, a former MP and Deputy Minister has told SW Radio Africa.

Former ZBC boss unleashed terror in Norton
Lest We Forget / News

Former ZBC boss unleashed terror in Norton

Christopher Hatikure Mutsvangwa, the former director of the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC) unleashed a reign of terror in the Norton constituency after losing to a little known MDC-T candidate in 2008. Several opposition activists died at the hands of terror mobs he personally directed.