Former Defence Chief General Constantino Chiwenga is now the most powerful Vice-President since 1980 having taken on new responsibilities for internal security state procurement and management of the government's proclaimed anti-corruption drive...
Isaac Moyo is Director General of the Central Intelligence Organisation which Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga a former commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces are trying to disable and replace with Military Intelligence...
A decade ago General Constantino Chiwenga took the criticism a stage further insisting that he would never salute a president who had not fought in the war against Ian Smith's Rhodesian Front regime...
Meanwhile once Constantino Chiwenga retires from his post as Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces Mnangagwa will have to manage his relationship with the military very carefully (AC Vol 58 No 25 A martial mind-set)...
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Certainly General Constantino Chiwenga Commander of the ZDF is taking no chances...
The other key relationship in pushing Mugabe towards the exit was between Mnangagwa and General Constantino Chiwenga the ZDF commander...
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A veteran politician and one of the country's wealthiest businessmen Mnangagwa sees a clear link between the country's political turmoil and its economic decline as does his ally General Constantino Chiwenga...
The lead authors of the military action – sacked Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and General Constantino Chiwenga – had prepared the ground for the operation and troops encountered little resistance at the barracks of the Presidential Guard and its commander Brigadier-General Anselem Sanyatwe...
Zimbabwe's week of upheaval • Sunday 5 November: Zimbabwe Defence Forces Commander General Constantino Chiwenga leaves for a meeting with China's Defence Minister Chang Wanquan in Beijing...
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General Constantine Chiwenga who was sacked as head of the armed forces and is to be expelled from the party is said to have made common cause with Mnangagwa...
The President is particularly concerned about the possibility of the G40 campaign culling old stalwarts (also Mnangagwa allies) such as Zimbabwe Defence Force Commander Constantine Chiwenga Air Vice-Marshal Perence Shiri and Lieutenant General Phillip Valerio Sibanda Commander of the Zimbabwe National Army...