ABSTRACT
In 2003, the director of the military intelligence corps visited all the battalions in the Zimbabwe barracks. This was a surprise visit because an army appointment was never present in the barracks. The visit by General Chiwenga was expected to address the needs of soldiers in the barracks. There have been continued debates on the November 2017 Zimbabwean coup, in which former President Robert Mugabe was ousted by the military, led by General Constantino Chiwenga, the Vice President of Zimbabwe. These debates have sought to respond to what led to the coup and how it was possible to plot and execute a coup against a president after 37 years of loyalty. Immediately after the Zimbabwean coup, General Chiwenga took over as the vice president of the country, with the coup spokesperson, Major General Sibusiso Moyo, becoming the foreign affairs minister and former Air Marshal Perrence Shiri was appointed as the minister of agriculture.
