{"id":210015,"date":"2025-10-16T07:49:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-controversial-business-tycoon-tagwirei-funded-the-military-in-2017-coup-that-toppled-mugabe-ziyambi-reveals\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T07:49:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T05:49:04","slug":"zimbabwe-controversial-business-tycoon-tagwirei-funded-the-military-in-2017-coup-that-toppled-mugabe-ziyambi-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-controversial-business-tycoon-tagwirei-funded-the-military-in-2017-coup-that-toppled-mugabe-ziyambi-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Controversial Business Tycoon Tagwirei Funded the Military in 2017 Coup That Toppled Mugabe &#8211; Ziyambi Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">ZANU PF&#8217;s Secretary for Legal Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi, has exposed how controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei played a role in toppling longtime ruler Robert Mugabe by financially assisting the military in the November 2017 coup.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Ziyambi revealed in a recent ZANU PF politburo meeting that, at the request of the then Commander of the Defence Forces, Constantino Chiwenga, Tagwirei provided US$1.6 million, supplied fuel and catered for the soldiers&#8217; basic provisions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">This was in response to a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510160023.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZANU PF&#8217;s Secretary for Legal Affairs, Ziyambi Ziyambi, has exposed how controversial businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei played a role in toppling longtime ruler Robert Mugabe by financially assisting the military in the November 2017 coup. Ziyambi revealed in a recent ZANU PF politburo meeting that, at the request of the then Commander of the Defence Forces, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[4338,258,256,11087,3835,8222,3318,427,257,14326,254,35018,28189,21732,4686,421,18435],"class_list":["post-210015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-business","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-controversial","tag-coup","tag-funded","tag-military","tag-mugabe","tag-news","tag-reveals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tagwirei","tag-toppled","tag-tycoon","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news","tag-ziyambi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}