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The ZNA is directed by a Chief of the Army, the senior official being an Army Chief of Staff. Zimbabwe's highest ranking army officer as of October 2023 is Lt. Gen. Anselem Sanyatwe. In 2011, Harare continued to maintain a statutory strength of 40,000 active personnel; actual numbers hover closer to 30,000. [6]
The Ministry of Defence is a Zimbabwe Government ministry, responsible for defence and national defence policy. The current incumbent minister is Oppah Muchinguri. [1] Levi Mayihlome holds the portfolio of Deputy Minister of Defence.The Ministry is located in the capital of Harare. It oversees the following uniformed services: Zimbabwe Defence ...
Zimbabwe National Liberation ... excluded from the Zimbabwe National Army at independence had ... at ZANU-PF headquarters in Harare and successfully lobbied for ...
The Presidential Guard was created by Robert Mugabe in November 1983 following two attempts on his life during the election campaign. [5] [6] In early 2014, ZNA ordered the PG to look for alternative accommodation from Dzivarasekwa in an attempt to reduce the number of army personnel at its barracks and the costs of maintaining its facilities.
In July 1980 Lieut-General Walls resigned and was exiled from Zimbabwe. Lieut-General ‘Sandy’ Maclean was appointed by then Prime Minister Mugabe as the Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces on 8 August 1980, and promoted to General. [4]
The Joint Operations Command (JOC) is the supreme organ for the coordination of state security in Zimbabwe.It was established by the Rhodesian Security Forces as Combined Operations Headquarters to supervise its counter-insurgency campaign in the Rhodesian Bush War [1] [2] as well as external incursions into neighbouring countries such as Zambia and Mozambique. [3]
The 5th Brigade was subordinate only to the Chief of the Zimbabwe National Army. [1] In 1983, it consisted of five infantry battalions as well as an armoured company equipped with T-54 tanks. [ 1 ] The brigade was at least partly mechanised and possessed a number of BTR-152 armoured personnel carriers.
Map showing the sectors of ZIPRA during the Bush War. ZIPRA T-34-85 tank at the Zimbabwe Military Museum, Gweru.. Because ZAPU's political strategy combined political negotiations and armed force, ZIPRA developed as elaborately training both regular soldiers and guerrilla fighters, although and by 1979 it had an estimated 20,000 combatants, [1] based in camps around Lusaka, Zambia and at the ...