From inthenews.co.uk Wednesday, 21 Jan 2009

Robert Mugabe’s grip on Zimbabwe could be fading along with worsening levels of support from within the country’s army, inthenews.co.uk has discovered.
In the latest example of army disenfranchisement, a farm owned by Zimbabwe’s central bank governor, Gideon Gono, has been raided by armed soldiers who forcibly took away livestock in [...]

From Institute for War & Peace Reporting – 20 January 2009 By Rosalie Moyo
Police on alert as soldiers embark on a go-slow after promises of foreign currency payments are not kept.
Soldiers are furious at President Robert Mugabe’s government for refusing to pay them partly in foreign currency, a move which was meant to avoid a [...]

From The Sunday Times
December 7, 2008, Jon Swain
The bodies of illegal panners pile up as Mugabe desperately tries to find money to pay the troops who keep him in power
AS A military helicopter hovered over the diamond fields of Chiadzwa in eastern Zimbabwe, police on horseback moved in with attack dogs to remove thousands of [...]

From Mail & Guardian
JASON MOYO – Dec 08 2008 06:00
With a cholera outbreak raging and basic services collapsing, the word in Harare for weeks has been that “something is about to happen”.
Many are convinced that the sight of uniformed soldiers looting shops this week was the beginning of that “something”. Many others are still in [...]