Columnist / Elias mambo
Didymus Mutasa drinking own poison
IN 2010, in a birthday message to President Robert Mugabe, former Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa described him as "a special gift God gave to Zimbabwe and Africa as a whole", and ...Published: 07 Apr 2015 at 10:47hrs | | by Elias Mambo
'Mugabe's fall symbolic of economic collapse'
ZIMBABWEANS appear agreed that more than anything else President Robert Mugabe's dramatic fall at the Harare International Airport last week shows it is high time Africa's oldest leader calls it quits...Published: 13 Feb 2015 at 14:50hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Tekere book precipitated Mugabe, Mujuru fallout
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's bid to ditch Vice-President Joice Mujuru started way back in 2007, barely three years after he had catapulted her into the presidium at the expense of Justice minister Em...Published: 17 Nov 2014 at 21:08hrs | 2 | by Elias Mambo
Mujuru's camp practically finished
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday furiously came out guns blazing to purge senior party officials aligned to Vice-President Joice Mujuru as he led from the front to crush what he claims to be a plot t...Published: 14 Nov 2014 at 22:43hrs | | by Faith Zaba/Elias Mambo
Zanu-PF headed for a split
ZANU-PF could be on the verge of a split as its new kid on the block, President Robert Mugabe's 49 year-old-wife Grace Mugabe, who has plunged headlong into turbulent and volatile Zanu-PF politics, ap...Published: 24 Oct 2014 at 06:06hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Mujuru camp under fire
A POTENTIALLY explosive meeting of the Zanu-PF Masvingo provincial co-ordinating committee (PCC) had to be cancelled on Saturday amid reports that party officials aligned to Justice minister Emmerson ...Published: 12 Sep 2014 at 09:27hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Mugabe confronts Mavhaire over factionalism
THE Zanu-PF succession debacle came to the fore at a cabinet meeting a fortnight ago amid revelations President Robert Mugabe confronted Energy minister Dzikamai Mavhaire, accusing him of abusing reso...Published: 29 Aug 2014 at 12:10hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Mugabe, Mujuru in stormy meeting
CLASHES at the chaotic and divisive Zanu-PF Youth League conference a fortnight ago, which once again proved the party is torn down the middle, forced President Robert Mugabe to call an emergency meet...Published: 22 Aug 2014 at 17:59hrs | | by Elias Mambo/Herbert Moyo
'Bigwigs misled Mugabe'
DEPUTY Justice minister and Mazowe South legislator Fortune Chasi's recent fall-out with First Lady Grace Mugabe took a new twist this week amid revelations that President Robert Mugabe was misled...Published: 22 Aug 2014 at 17:54hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Mugabe succession dogfight spins out of control
IN the famous novel Things Fall Apart, renowned Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe uses William Butler Yeats' poem as an epigraph, describing the chaos that arises when a system collapses."Turnin...Published: 22 Aug 2014 at 17:46hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Zanu-PF factions in bare-knuckle fights
"TIRIKUFAMBA naChipanga! (We are voting for Kudzai Chipanga!)," whispered Zanu-PF national commissar Webster Shamu to this reporter last Saturday at Rainbow Towers Hotel in Harare as the battle for t...Published: 15 Aug 2014 at 07:23hrs | | by Elias Mambo
'Tsvangirai must open debate on leadership renewal,' says Matinenga
FORMER Parliamentary Affairs minister Eric Matinenga has urged the MDC-T to start an open debate on leadership renewal, adding his voice to calls by a group of senior party officials pushing for dis...Published: 17 Apr 2014 at 12:01hrs | | by Elias Mambo
How CIOs siphoned $70m loan facility
FURTHER details have emerged on how the shadowy CIO squandered $70 million provided by the Chinese government through state-controlled financial institutions following hints on the issue by deputy for...Published: 11 Apr 2014 at 16:00hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Zimbabwe Army launches recruitment drive
The Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has embarked on a recruitment drive despite government struggling to meet its $155 million monthly wage bill for the entire civil service, translating to over 70% of ...Published: 04 Apr 2014 at 08:59hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Nikuv consolidating its already entrenched position in the Zimbabwean government
SHADOWY Israeli security company, Nikuv International Projects Ltd, widely accused of manipulating the disputed July 31 2013 general elections for the ruling Zanu PF to win, is consolidating its alrea...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 10:19hrs | 1 | by Elias Mambo
Tension mounts ahead of Zanu-PF elections
TENSION is mounting fast within Zanu-PF as rival factions gear up for a tough fight to control the party's youth league ahead of the much-anticipated elective congress in December.Sources ...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 07:51hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Khaya Moyo's VP prospects fading
ZANU-PF national chairman Simon Khaya Moyo's chances of becoming the country's second vice-president at the party congress in December appear to have taken a serious knock after it emerged some se...Published: 28 Mar 2014 at 07:49hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Chombo investigated for corruption cases
ALLEGATIONS of corruption against Local Government minister Ignatius Chombo were investigated by the Anti-Corruption Commission and forwarded to the police but no action was taken, the Zimbabwe Indep...Published: 21 Mar 2014 at 09:27hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Ghost of chaotic polls haunts Zanu-PF
THE ghost of Zanu-PF's chaotic provincial elections held at the end of last year has come back to haunt the party amid reports Masvingo provincial members aligned to Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagw...Published: 14 Mar 2014 at 08:49hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Daggers drawn in the MDC-T
DAGGERS are drawn in the faction-riven MDC-T between party president Morgan Tsvangirai's camp and those supporting treasurer-general Elton Mangoma after a legal team representing the former energy m...Published: 07 Mar 2014 at 09:34hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Mangoma speaks on violence in MDC-T - interview
Following last Saturday's violence at the MDC-T headquarters at Harvest House in which the party's deputy treasurer-general Elton Mangoma was assaulted in the presence of party leader Morgan Tsvangira...Published: 21 Feb 2014 at 09:21hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Chamisa threatens the anti-Tsvangirai factions
MDC-T national organising secretary Nelson Chamisa last week read the riot act to warring factions in the party amid strident calls for leadership renewal.Party insiders said Chamisa wrote a m...Published: 14 Feb 2014 at 07:00hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Zimbabwe soldiers ordered out of barracks
THE Zimbabwe National Army (ZNA) has ordered soldiers to look for alternative accommodation as it seeks to reduce the number of army personnel staying in its barracks and hence the costs of looking af...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 06:32hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Zanu-PF, MDC-T succession battles intensify after polls
LAST year's controversial July 31 general elections that saw President Robert Mugabe being re-elected amid opposition claims of systematic rigging have triggered a new wave of internal instability and...Published: 07 Feb 2014 at 06:29hrs | | by Elias Mambo
Zanu-PF tests its rigging machinery
ZANU PF has reportedly manipulated referendum figures to suit its template for predetermined victory in the next critical general elections, with party officials telling supporters and would-be voters...Published: 30 Mar 2013 at 20:52hrs | | by Elias Mambo and Herbert Moyo,
'Mugabe, Zanu-PF regroups under GNU'
FAR from genuinely committing to reforms to usher in a democratic dispensation in Zimbabwe, Zanu-PF has been using the Global Political Agreement (GPA) to regroup and recover from an all-time low ...Published: 23 Mar 2013 at 16:49hrs | | by Herbert Moyo - Elias Mambo
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