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Mnangagwa missed one fact: Unlike Mugabe, he has never been genuinely respected within ZANU-PF
Who can deny that ZANU-PF is teetering on the brink? As factional fighting within the ruling ZANU-PF intensifies - and even threatens to get ugly with the so-called "uprising" slated for 31st ...Published: 26 Mar 2025 at 22:52hrs | 984 | by Tendai Ruben Mbofana
Mnangagwa succession: Zanu-PF purge opens can of worms
ZANU-PF officials recently expelled or suspended from the party are claiming they are being punished for opposing a campaign to extend President Emmerson Mnangagwa's rule beyond 2028, a move they say ...Published: 09 Mar 2025 at 13:23hrs | 712 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Zanu-PF purges old guard
ZANU-PF has announced a controversial directive to retire members of the "old guard" within the ruling party who are 65 years of age and above, effective April 1, 2025. The decision, which targets key...Published: 11 Feb 2025 at 08:03hrs | 1887 | by Staff reporter
Prof. Moyo's Political Career in Limbo
Discarded knowledgeable academic Professor Jonathan Moyo, who is currently eking out a life somewhere in East Africa's dungeons, has confessed that factional fights in his previous party exist and is ...Published: 07 Feb 2025 at 20:22hrs | 2433 | by Leonard Koni
Nelson Chamisa down but not out
The political landscape in the country has now changed. Inasmuch as Zanu PF wanted legitimacy from the opposition, this current situation now makes it hard for the ruling party claim the much-needed l...Published: 26 Jan 2024 at 20:57hrs | 23 | by Leonard Koni
Dzino thinks Mnangagwa was a minor and peripheral player in the liberation struggle
Book Excerpt from: In Search of the Elusive Zimbabwean Dream, Volume III (Ideas & Solutions)By Professor Arthur G.O. MutambaraI later lose my autographed copy of Wilfred Mhanda's b...Published: 17 Nov 2023 at 05:36hrs | 49 | by Professor Arthur G.O. Mutambara
Zimbabwe military commander will soon be redeployed
AS President Emmerson Mnangagwa continues to make surprise post-election appointments amid political manoeuvres by the military to reposition itself for a more influential role going forward, Zimbabwe...Published: 06 Nov 2023 at 21:24hrs | 74 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa appoints Mike Madiro as new NRZ Chair
President Emmerson Mnangagwa has appointed another key Zanu-PF factional political crony, Mike Madiro, as the new National Railways of Zimbabwe chairman, putting him into the state feeding trough to e...Published: 28 Sep 2023 at 09:09hrs | 13 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's Midlands allies exempt from Zanu-PF primaries
PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's close allies in his Midlands home province have been exempted from being challenged by other party officials in Zanu-PF primary elections in a development that has stoke...Published: 25 Mar 2023 at 11:35hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
ZANU PF's Believe Gaule reported to National Leadership
ZANU PF central committee member and self proclaimed Tsholotsho declaration mastermind Believe Gaule has been reported to the party's National Chairperson and secretary for legal affairs in their capa...Published: 27 Jun 2022 at 13:30hrs | 41 | by Mandla Ndlovu
EXCLUSIVE: Shocking audio exposes deep ZANU PF factionalism
In a shocking and bizarre plot twist in the ZANU PF internal political dynamics ahead of central committee elections, a ZANU PF official from Matebeleland North unwittingly admitted to leading a facti...Published: 07 Jun 2022 at 07:50hrs | 9 | by Mandla Ndlovu
Trevor Ncube's dalliances with Mnangagwa run much deeper
This article on the mysterious and controversial relations between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and local publisher Trevor Ncube is a summary based on an extract from...Published: 08 Apr 2022 at 09:22hrs | 403 | by Jonathan Mbiriyamveka
Mnangagwa agents hunt for Jonathan Moyo
From fierce clashes in the Zanu-PF politburo meetings after a bitter political fallout over a hotly contested leadership succession during the late former president Robert Mugabe's rule to resorting t...Published: 12 Mar 2022 at 19:22hrs | 15 | by Staff reporter
Political flip flopper Believe Gaule walloped in Matebeleland North
Former MDC senator Believe Gaule was walloped by the incumbent Richard Moyo in the recently held ZANU PF provincial elections where they competed for the Matabeleland North Provincial Chairmanship. ...Published: 03 Jan 2022 at 14:08hrs | 9 | by Thabo Nkiwane
Zanu-PF bigwigs resists female VP push
Zanu-PF is resisting calls to amend its constitution to re-introduce a woman as one of the party's vice presidents - as the race to replace former State vice president Kembo Mohadi heats up.Th...Published: 06 Apr 2021 at 15:43hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Chiwenga faction loses ground
THE appointment of Frederick Shava to the Foreign Affairs ministerial post this week has further entrenched President Emmerson Mnangagwa's hold on power, capitalising on political contingency and oppo...Published: 13 Feb 2021 at 15:02hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa moving to tighten his dead man's grip on power
AFTER his initial daring purges of military commanders who propelled him to power through a military coup in November 2017, President Emmerson Mnangagwa is now capitalising on political contingency an...Published: 06 Feb 2021 at 16:26hrs | 3 | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF spells out Mnangagwa succession plan
ZANU-PF yesterday said the party's succession matrix would al-ways be guided by its constitution and remained a straitjacket where the most senior party member would succeed an incumbent party leader....Published: 20 Nov 2020 at 06:34hrs | 9 | by Staff reporter
If Jonathan Moyo's advice is premised on "cut yangu yakamira sei" in the future dispensation, then this country is in for a joke
Listening to the lecture Jonathan Moyo gave in last week one-hour video now circulating in the social media, it felt sick in the pit of the stomach. It is for this reason one must be careful what soci...Published: 04 Sep 2020 at 20:22hrs | 1 | by Nomazulu Thata
Obert Mpofu, Jacob Mudenda emerge as Mnangagwa's new targets for purging
AFTER weeding out his new rivals - who brought him to power - in the security sector, President Emmerson Mnangagwa has now shifted the purges to Zanu-PF, targeting the ruling party's heavyweights seen...Published: 11 Jul 2019 at 07:58hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Strive Masiyiwa is not a Zimbabwean Intellectual Prostitutes: Jonathan Moyo is!
I am sharing this for the benefit of those who do not have a complete background of where Jonathan Moyo is coming from. Zimbabwe's ZANU-PF brothel is brimming with intellectual prostitute...Published: 08 Jan 2019 at 17:38hrs | 2 | by Dr. George B. Ayyittey
Jonathan Moyo's Gukurahundi massacre beef with Mnangagwa is over
Exiled former Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo says he was never close to Emmerson Mnangagwa and the claim that his was a myth which exposes the lack of fact-checking in the Zimbabwean media an...Published: 14 Nov 2018 at 07:51hrs | 3 | by insiderzim.com
Zimbabwe Election 2018 Predictive Model-It's not even close!
In less than a week Zimbabweans vote in a watershed election. Not surprisingly the impending elections evoke a myriad of emotions for different reasons. Some are hyper-ventilating; some are quacking i...Published: 25 Jul 2018 at 13:58hrs | 1 | by George Chingarande
No resignation for Chigumba: Zim Men in Public Offices have small houses and several children out of wedlock!
Dear Honourable Justice Chigumba, I should write you this letter urgently: the message is urgent Meme Chigumba. I am sure you will find time despite your busy schedules. I know too that the pr...Published: 20 Jul 2018 at 19:10hrs | 2 | by Nomazulu Thata
Jonathan Moyo says he has never been Mnangagwa's ally
EXILED former minister Jonathan Moyo has claimed he has never been a political ally of President Emmerson Mnangagwa even during the days of the Tsholotsho Declaration, adding he holds the country'...Published: 09 Jul 2018 at 08:07hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa's 'shady deals' exposed
United Democratic Alliance (UDA) presidential candidate, Daniel Shumba yesterday claimed that Zanu-PF removed him from Parliament as part of a plot by President Emmerson Mnangagwa to silence him from ...Published: 21 Jun 2018 at 07:13hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Zimbabwe army's role in Zanu-PF campaign exposed
SERVING and retired soldiers were heavily involved in Zanu-PF's chaotic primary elections last month and some of the candidates that will represent the party in the July 30 harmonised elections were i...Published: 10 Jun 2018 at 17:58hrs | | by Staff reporter
Zanu-PF supporters vow to 'donate' Tsholotsho to MDC
THE chaos that characterised the Zanu-PF Tsholotsho North constituency primaries could turn out to be a bane for the party, with some supporters vowing to play a bhora musango on the "imposed" candida...Published: 04 Jun 2018 at 07:35hrs | | by Staff reporter
The fugitive Jonathan Moyo should write his will before submitting himself to Interpol
Tuesday 22 May 2018 shall be remembered as the worst day in the entire life of Jonathan Moyo. It is the day Moyo has been officially declared a fugitive or a number one enemy of the State. Life will n...Published: 22 May 2018 at 20:16hrs | 3 | by Don Chigumba
Chinomona's turbulent political career
SPOTTING her trademark hairstyle, often referred to as Dino in street lingo, Mabel Chinomona (pictured) was not anticipating a bad day after all.Maybe she wanted the provincial coordinating co...Published: 14 Apr 2018 at 12:14hrs | | by Staff reporter
A rare insight into Zanu-PF politics
IN writing his memoir, Cephas G. Msipa said: "I want to leave a record, hoping those coming after me may benefit from my experiences."Title: In Pursuit of Freedom and JusticeAuthor...Published: 27 Mar 2018 at 06:49hrs | 2 | by Beniah Munengwa
EXCLUSIVE: Mugabe ceded power to Mnangagwa in 2008, but reneged on deal in 2013
COLOGNE– President Emmerson Mnangagwa could have been sworn into office, as early as December 2014, after former leader, Robert Mugabe, had reportedly struck an informal gentlemen’s agreement to h...Published: 09 Mar 2018 at 07:32hrs | 1 | by Itai Mushekwe
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
The era of 'Deng' Mnangagwa
TRUE to Isaac Newton's axiom, which eloquently asserts that for one to see further it is only by perching on the shoulder of giants, the new President of Zimbabwe, Emmerson Mnangagwa, affectionately k...Published: 31 Jan 2018 at 05:43hrs | 2 | by Tich Mushambadope
REWIND: Jonathan Moyo savages General Chiwenga
On July 2, 2017, five months before the coup that dethroned Robert Mugabe, The Standard published the interview below.Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo was last week described as an "enem...Published: 30 Jan 2018 at 17:21hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Chiyangwa finally spills the beans on Tsholotsho Declaration
Flamboyant businessman and Zanu PF Central Committee member, Phillip Chiyangwa has made sensational claims that he was the brains behind the 2004 so called 'Tsholotsho Declaration'.13 years af...Published: 03 Jan 2018 at 16:26hrs | | by Staff Reporter
How Jonathan Moyo lost the plot, 'the fake gospel of Gaule'
AXED Minister of Higher and Tertiary Education, Science and Technology Development Professor Jonathan Moyo turned against a majority of people who had assisted him in building his political career esp...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 05:31hrs | | by Mkhululi Sibanda
Believe Gaule lies about Jonathan Moyo
THE rolling out of Operation Restore Legacy by the Zimbabwe Defence Forces has ushered in a new political dispensation led by President Emmerson Mnangagwa. However, for the people of Tsholotsho North ...Published: 10 Dec 2017 at 05:23hrs | 3 | by Mkhululi Sibanda
Ezra Sibanda lashes Jonathan Moyo
Whenever a Zanu PF politician from Matabeleland is dumped, they start condemning their masters for Gukurahundi attrocities just to get sympathy from the people. The latest one has been working...Published: 05 Dec 2017 at 05:35hrs | | by Ezra Tshisa Sibanda
The 'secret' war vets document that rattled Mugabe
Former liberation war fighters have a well-calculated strategy to set up First Lady Grace Mugabe and her backers for failure as they push for Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa to take over from her hu...Published: 04 Dec 2017 at 14:37hrs | 2 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo declares war on Mnangagwa
HARARE - Former Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has lashed out at President Emmerson Mnangagwa, claiming the incumbent was under a false sense of victory that would soon come to a...Published: 02 Dec 2017 at 11:48hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
Not 'right nor wrong' in supporting cyclic Mnangagwa, just HOLLOW!!
Philosophically, the word "right" is NOT fixed, neither is the word "wrong". Even in general or Political life, the word "right", cannot be fixed. In Zimbabwe last month, October 2017, it was RIGHT to...Published: 29 Nov 2017 at 16:58hrs | | by Ryton Dzimiri
Jonathan Moyo the kingmaker that never was
ON September 15, 2006, Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo, then in "political Siberia" after being shunted out of Zanu-PF, wrote: "Perennial wisdom from divine revelation and human experience dic...Published: 25 Nov 2017 at 06:11hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
'Mnangagwa ignored my advice'
AXED Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa ignored my advice and warnings, and instead chose to be used and later dumped by the likes of fired war veterans and other senior Zanu-PF members, whom he believ...Published: 10 Nov 2017 at 11:29hrs | | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa crushed
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe yesterday dropped the bombshell on his deputy and wartime personal assistant, Emmerson Mnangagwa, axing him from government for allegedly "consistently and persistently exhibit...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 07:32hrs | 7 | by Staff reporter
Chimene exposed Mnangagwa's Tsholotsho Declaration plan
Manicaland Provincial Affairs minister Mandiitawepi Chimene yesterday sensationally claimed credit for exposing fired Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa's Tsholotsho Declaration, a 2004 suspected "pala...Published: 07 Nov 2017 at 05:47hrs | | by Staff reporter
Tsholotsho Declaration of November 2004: the untold story
THIS is a continuation of an article we published last week in which the former Information minister reveals details of Zanu-PF's power struggle which culminated in the so-called Tsholotsho Declaratio...Published: 16 Oct 2017 at 09:36hrs | 341 | by Jonathan Moyo
Mnangagwa formed UPM to topple Mugabe
Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo has told President Robert Mugabe how he allegedly tried to form an opposition party with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, piling pressure on the ...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:44hrs | 1 | by Staff reporter
Jonathan Moyo spills the beans on Mnangagwa
Higher and Tertiary Education ministerJonathan Moyo has told President Robert Mugabe how he allegedly tried to form an opposition party with Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, piling pressure on the u...Published: 15 Oct 2017 at 12:33hrs | 4 | by Staff reporter
Mnangagwa roasts Jonathan Moyo
VICE-PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa reportedly went for broke at Wednesday's politburo meeting where he "exposed" Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo's alleged role in leaking sensitive State secret...Published: 13 Oct 2017 at 07:56hrs | 2 | by Staff Reporter
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