The head of the Air Force Air Vice-Marshal Perence Shiri intervened to save Matiza in what has been seen as the most blatant support for Mnangagwa by a senior military officer...
Another Grace ally is Perence Shiri a Zezuru from Chikomba District where Grace hails from...
There is press speculation that the current top people's purge will eventually take in security figures aligned to Mujuru key members of the Joint Operations Command such as Central Intelligence Organisation Chief Happyton Bonyongwe Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri Prisons Commissioner General Paradzai Zimondi and Air Marshal Perence Shiri...
Maphosa as well as army commander General Constantine Chiwenga and Air Force of Zimbabwe chief Air Marshal Perence Shiri revealed that less than $5 mn...
Promotion for Air Marshal Perence Shiri would attract more hostility to ZANU-PF in Matebeleland where he was known as the Butcher of Balagwe...
Air Marshal Perence Shiri a key fixer leans towards Mujuru but is tainted by the Gukurahundi massacres of 1982-87 in Matebeleland...
More surprisingly he revealed that Air Marshal Perence Shiri had long been critical of President Robert Mugabe and his refusal to permit change within ZANU-PF...
He would reassure the service chiefs; Chiwenga and Air Marshal Perence Shiri were particularly close to him...
The hard-liners Air Marshal Perence Shiri and Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri may have been weakened by the apparent retirement of Prisons Commissioner Paradzai Zimondi and the sudden death of the ruthless CIO Deputy Director Menard Livingstone Muzariri...
He learnt his skills as a protégé of Perence Shiri (now Air Marshal) in Matebeleland in the mid-1980s...