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[QUOTE="Queen, post: 90334, member: 27"]
Zimbabwe's spy agency just quietly gutted a chunk of its leadership, and word is this whole thing runs way deeper than a simple staffing shuffle. The CIO reportedly notified affected officers about the shakeup, hitting district and provincial intelligence officers along with assistant and deputy directors across the board.

Anyone connected to former director-general Fulton Mangwanya, who came over from running Zimbabwe's parks authority, took the biggest hit. A bunch of them got tossed into what insiders call the pool, basically a holding zone with zero actual duties attached.

Mangwanya himself barely lasted 15 months in the top job before ex-diplomat Paul Chikawa stepped in to replace him. Sources cited by a Zimbabwean paper claim Chikawa building his own inner circle is only part of the story, and that ZANU PF's internal power plays, tied to recent constitutional changes, are really driving the consolidation.

One officer flagged as a clear winner here is Rumbidzai Kanhukanwe, bumped up from assistant to deputy director. Nine new deputy directors and 23 assistant directors came out of this reshuffle overall, now overseeing units like internal affairs, economic intelligence, government protective inspectorate, and business development.
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