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Is Zimbabwe headed for another coup?
This season we are living in, it's not a time for a hairdo. People are perching on the edge of the cliff. There is a loud whisper drifting around, almost like a wish among many. These chaps wi...Published: 01 Sep 2024 at 10:25hrs | 2519 | by Tawanda Majoni
Mnangagwa fooled us
Former Zanu-PF youth leader Godfrey Tsenengamu says he supported President Emmerson Mnangagwa to take over power because he believed the former vice president had learnt the ropes after serving under ...Published: 18 Jun 2023 at 08:43hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF congress: The Great Betrayal
IF the late former Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Douglas Smith felt betrayed by the British government and his allies - including apartheid South Africa - whom he expected to side with him to keep Rhod...Published: 31 Oct 2022 at 18:52hrs | 5 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga allies cry Mnangagwa betrayal
WHILE the poisoned relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga are hardly spoken about publicly, close allies say the former army commander feels betrayed by...Published: 20 Aug 2022 at 17:06hrs | 19 | by Staff reporter
Mystery deaths deepen in Zimbabwe
DEATH is never easy and, whenever it strikes, the grief it causes is traumatic for family and friends who would have lost a loved one.This encounter with mortality always leaves the surviving ...Published: 04 Dec 2021 at 18:49hrs | 14 | by Staff reporter
Nasty factional fights boil in Mnangagwa's backyard
INTENSE inter-factional fights to control President Emmerson Mnangagwa's home province Midlands, pitting two rival groups backing State Security minister Owen Mudha Ncube and the incumbent chairperson...Published: 24 Sep 2021 at 18:56hrs | 10 | by Staff reporter
Mutodi set to leave Mashonaland East?
Former Deputy Infomation Minister and Goromonzi West legislator Energy Mutodi is reportedly planning to leave his Mashonaland East base in favour of another Constituency in Masvingo, a reliable source...Published: 19 Aug 2021 at 15:16hrs | 6 | by Nicholas Ncube
Politics behind Mnangagwa's 'buying spree'
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa is such a political fox. His charm is without comparison. Or, is that so?Well, there are different ways of looking at this "charm".If you like him so much,...Published: 08 Aug 2021 at 07:35hrs | 4 | by Tawanda Majoni
ZANU PF factions revealed
The Zimbabwe African Nationalists Union (Patriotic Front) ZANU PF is an interesting political and liberation movement which is currently the reigning and undisputed champion of Zimbabwean politics...Published: 12 Jul 2019 at 10:10hrs | 4 | by Nicholas Ncube
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF welcomes back prodigal son, Didymus Mutasa
Long-serving Zanu-PF member Didymus Mutasa, who was expelled from the party at the height of factionalism and readmitted in October last year after spending two years in the wilderness is retracing hi...Published: 18 May 2019 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chamisa's MDC allocates posts to ex-G40 cadres
FORMER members of the deposed Generation 40 (G40) faction have secured positions in the opposition MDC party's Harare provincial executive. G40 is a Zanu-PF faction that worked tirelessly to secure fo...Published: 30 Apr 2019 at 20:45hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Mujuru not rejoining Zanu-PF
Former vice president and National People's Party (NPP) leader Joice Mujuru has said she is not re-joining Zanu-PF, following claims that she was on her way back to the ruling party. Speaking ...Published: 09 Apr 2019 at 07:47hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mutasa, Mutinhiri confirm Zanu-PF return
FORMER Zanu-PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and ex-Mashonaland East provincial Minister Ambrose Mutinhiri have confirmed they are retracing their steps back to the ruling party, after b...Published: 08 Apr 2019 at 06:46hrs | | by newzimbabwe
Gono to land top ZANU PF post?
Former Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe Governor Gideon Gono's political fortunes may rise again as he may be earmarked for a Politiburo position during the ZANU PF annual December Conference.A Centra...Published: 19 Mar 2019 at 06:09hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
How 'baby-dumping' Joice Mujuru played out
The first quarter of 2014 revealed that the main opposition party, the MDC-T, was in a similar state of disarray.It first came to the surface when MDC-T deputy treasurer and former cabinet min...Published: 10 Mar 2019 at 09:10hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa - Mawere fight exposes rot in ZANU PF
The fight between Strive Masiyiwa, Mutumwa Mawere and Dr. Daniel Shumba has exposed how ZANU PF system of patronage when it comes to business people works. This was exposed by Norton memb...Published: 31 Dec 2018 at 19:09hrs | 11 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Japajapa, Kunaka: A case of sour grapes
In a love affair between a man and a woman, they live each day seeing themselves as soul mates without thinking anything sinister would happen to their till death do us part vow. The same scenario hap...Published: 25 Nov 2018 at 19:34hrs | 1 | by Elijah Chihota
Lumumba saga: A 3rd ZANU PF faction emerges
Factional politics in ZANU PF have taken an ugly twist with reports that a new faction led by embattled War Veterans Leader Chris Mutsvangwa has emerged. Mutsvangwa wants to push General Constan...Published: 06 Nov 2018 at 14:25hrs | 1 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Anti-Chiwenga demo; fresh details emerge
Following reports of the Anti-Chiwenga demonstration pencilled for 12 November by the Youth League aligned to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, both camps have moved in to beef up security for their leade...Published: 04 Nov 2018 at 15:44hrs | 5 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Congrats but Mnangagwa has my vote, Mliswa tells Chamisa
Norton legislator Temba Mliswa has shown his love for ZANUPF and its 2018 presidential candidate Emmerson Mnangagwa despite being expelled from the ruling party on factional grounds. Mliswa pr...Published: 02 Mar 2018 at 10:40hrs | 1 | by Simbarashe Sithole
How Solomon Mujuru scuppered the Tsholotsho Declaration masterplan
For all the apparent unity demonstrated by Zanu-PF when Bennett was sent to prison, in fact deep divisions within it were soon to emerge.The death of Vice-President Simon Muzenda in September ...Published: 26 Feb 2018 at 06:16hrs | | by David Coltart
G40 plots comeback
A cross-section of opposition parties - among them the National People's Party (NPP) and the MDC Alliance - are engaged in secret talks with banished members of the Generation 40 (G40) faction as they...Published: 27 Jan 2018 at 10:30hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
There are 3 reasons Mnangagwa want another GNU and they are all for selfish gain
There is a growing chorus of people supporting the idea of Zanu PF inviting the opposition to form another GNU or National Transition Authority."ACADEMIC and political analyst Ibbo Mandaza say...Published: 22 Nov 2017 at 16:59hrs | 1 | by Nomusa Garikai
Mnangagwa's faction was to suffer another setback
THE military takeover of President Robert Mugabe's government by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces (ZDF) in the early hours of Wednesday morning is the culmination of prolonged intense factional battles tri...Published: 17 Nov 2017 at 10:32hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chipanga you were a Gamatox, says Mliswa
Norton Independent legislator Temba Mliswa has exposed Zanu PF youth Secretary Kudzanayi Chipanga as having been elevated to the position as a Gamatox candidate and challenged him to be principled aft...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 10:35hrs | | by Stephen Jakes
Analysing Mugabe’s Cabinet reshuffle - The Grace effect
After a week of tension in his party and government, Mugabe has reshuffled his cabinet. Mugabe has dealt with the succession tension Machiavellian style. If there is anything Mugabe is known for, it's...Published: 10 Oct 2017 at 07:03hrs | 2 | by Lloyd Msipa
The day Mugabe crushed Mnangagwa
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe chose the recent Zanu-PF Youth League Bindura interface rally to define for the first time his relationship with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the context of the liberat...Published: 22 Sep 2017 at 11:07hrs | 11 | by Farai Maguwu, Civic activist
'Zimbabwe army to decide Mugabe successor'
Daily News chief writer Fungi Kwaramba sat down with respected University of Zimbabwe Political Science lecturer, Eldred Masunungure, to unpack the thorny succession issue in Zanu-PF, which has caused...Published: 23 Jul 2017 at 12:26hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mugabe fooling Zanu-PF
President Robert Mugabe is desperately playing a delicate balancing act; juggling the two Zanu-PF factions that are wrangling over his succession in order to keep himself in power while at the same ti...Published: 03 Jul 2017 at 07:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF wars changing gear
Zanu-PF's deadly but fluid politics is witnessing yet another dramatic realignment of forces, with the warring former liberation movement now said to be courting youth leaders who were expelle...Published: 26 Apr 2017 at 15:16hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Unbundling the Zanu-PF succession matrix
The realisation that the end of Robert Mugabe's rule is now but certain has created a stakes rush within Zanu-PF while the opposition remains in record levels of paralysis. The rush has seen the s...Published: 03 Apr 2017 at 07:30hrs | | by Ndabezinhle Mabhena
Sipepa Nkomo is not marketable to the people, says Mujuru ally
A top official with Joice Mujuru's National People's Party, Gift Nyandoro, has revealed that NPP party spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire does not believe that Dzikamai Mavhaire, Ambassador Mvundura a...Published: 30 Mar 2017 at 17:14hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Guerrilla election strategy for Zimbabwe's opposition
Since Zimbabwe attained independence in 1980, the country's opposition has largely been outclassed and beaten by Zanu PF's confrontational tactics. The only time the opposition made inroads was in Mar...Published: 10 Mar 2017 at 07:49hrs | | by Darlington Nyambiya
Will Mujuru survive?
ON March 1 2016 hundreds of people thronged a five-star hotel in Harare to meet former vice-president Joice Mujuru as she announced the launch of the Zimbabwe People First (ZimPF) party at a press...Published: 24 Feb 2017 at 06:27hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Gono's political resurrection?
Sometime in 2014, Gideon Gono, the former governor of the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe (RBZ) was within spitting distance of a seat in the Senate, the upper chamber of Parliament, before it was dramatical...Published: 20 Feb 2017 at 12:32hrs | 2 | by Alex Magaisa
Zanu-PF's hot potato
FIVE years ago, the Research Advocacy Unit (RAU) - a non-governmental organisation that researches on human rights and governance issues - produced a penetrative report titled Succession and the Z...Published: 02 Feb 2017 at 06:17hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu PF conference falls short of expectation- Mutodi
A controversial Zanu PF youth member Energy Mutodi has said the recently ended Zanu PF people's conference has failed to live up to expectation as the same rhetoric has been repeated while topical iss...Published: 19 Dec 2016 at 05:56hrs | 3 | by Stephen Jakes
Jonathan Moyo savages Mnangagwa
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has launched a scathing attack on Vice-President Emmerson Mnangangwa and his followers, saying their sense of entitlement shown in their push to ha...Published: 27 Nov 2016 at 13:36hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa vanquish Grace but the real tough opponents await him.
"Grace Mugabe endorses Mnangagwa," screamed the headline in Spotlight. And the article was accompanied by a humble looking Grace bowing low to her new overlord. Ever since Grace burst of...Published: 05 Nov 2016 at 21:38hrs | 1 | by Patrick Guramatunhu
G40 faction has lost and Mugabe is throwing Moyo and Kasukuwere to the croc
Corruption has become rampant in Zimbabwe, in February 2016 President Mugabe admitted that $15 billion in diamond revenue was "swindled" and no one has ever been arrested; because, as a rule, the ...Published: 04 Nov 2016 at 06:18hrs | 2 | by Nomusa Garikai
'Zanu-PF on its way to the grave'
INDEPENDENT candidate Temba Mliswa (TM) overcame the odds to win the Norton by-election held at the weekend. He speaks to the Financial Gazette's Online Editor, Paul Nyakazeya (PN), about the victory,...Published: 27 Oct 2016 at 09:33hrs | 2 | by Paul Nyakazeya
FLASH-BACK: Wikileaks sealed Joice Mujuru's fate?
The underlying message from the information volunteered to the American diplomats by senior officials is that Zanu-PF is a party at the crossroads because of President Robert Mugabe's reluctance t...Published: 01 Sep 2016 at 21:04hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe never had free, fair elections, says Mugabe ally
Former Zanu-PF politburo member, Cephas Msipa says Zimbabwe's successive elections since 1980 have not been free and fair and has implored the authorities to change heart and try to pass credibili...Published: 03 Jul 2016 at 16:53hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Zim opposition must read 'Sense and Sensibility' - they need to be sensible.
"Sense and Sensibility" by Jane Austen; there is a good read, especially for our useless opposition parties. Sense and sensibility, the title, means a tendency to be overly emotional and/...Published: 10 May 2016 at 06:06hrs | 3 | by Nomusa Garikai
Age has nothing to do with competence - Mugabe was young once but just as corrupt
During the constitution writing process there was a lot of talk of introducing the upper age limit for president. The idea has grown on from there and now some Zanu PF idiots think it is a selling poi...Published: 28 Mar 2016 at 20:45hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
Factionalism: Zanu-PFs blessing in disguise?
Zimbabwe is in an election mode - and lots of evidence abound. The mere mention of the year 2018 gets many Zimbabweans thinking immediately of national elections that constitutionally must come in tha...Published: 23 Mar 2016 at 05:23hrs | | by Tichaona Zindoga
War vets up the stakes by demanding Mugabe fire 8 key G40 leaders
Last week Mugabe agreed to meet the war vets who have found themselves being kicked round like a football in Zanu PF's factious factional wars. The war vets have set Mugabe an impossible task ahead of...Published: 22 Mar 2016 at 18:44hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'We are prepared to die for the people,' says Bhasikiti - rich, killed them just as readily
Kudakwashe Bhasikiti is just a confused and greed individual who is so desperate to get back into power and the gravy train he is displaying the most common characteristic behaviour of villain; "Sell ...Published: 17 Mar 2016 at 16:33hrs | | by Wilbert Mukori
'Military intelligence ousted Joice Mujuru'
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's regime covertly used the deadly military intelligence to thwart former Vice President Joice Mujuru's presidential ambitions before her unceremonious expulsion from Zanu-PF an...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 07:53hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mujuru: Mugabe's nagging headache
DESPITE President Robert Mugabe's ruthless crushing and expulsion of former Vice-President Joice Mujuru from Zanu-PF amid unprecedented purges of her high profile allies - which occurred three years a...Published: 04 Mar 2016 at 07:40hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
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