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AU glory for Mugabe

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe, who celebrates his 91st birthday next month, is on the verge of landing the African Union (AU) chairmanship amid a deepening crisis in his own party, ZANU-PF. ZANU-PF is in the throes of epoch-defining infighting which has been raging nonstop for years. The infighting, which started well…

Expulsions loom in ZANU-PF

THE net is closing in on ZANU-PF officials suspected of corruption with party insiders saying those caught on the wrong side of the law would, apart from being prosecuted, lose both party and government positions, the Financial Gazette can report. This comes as State media reports suggest that a crack…

Foreign investors ‘lucky’ to operate in Zim

ZIMBABWE's new Indigenisation Minister Christopher Mushowe says foreign investors are "very lucky" to get 49 percent shares in businesses they have set up. In his first comments on President Robert Mugabe's indigenisation policy since his appointment earlier this month, Mushowe said: "In fact 49 percent is the maximum…

Mnangagwa escapes poisoning

UNKNOWN assailants sprinkled deadly cyanide in the office of the newly appointed ZANU-PF Vice President, Emmerson Mnangagwa in a suspected attempt to poison him. According to ZBC News Online, President Robert Mugabe broke the news while announcing the new look ZANU-PF Politburo, which saw Mnangagwa replace former Vice…

Mnangagwa is finally Vice President

TEN years ago, Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa’s elevation to the Vice Presidency of ZANU PF was scuttled at the last minute. ZANU PF introduced a new provision in its constitution that compelled the party to include a woman in its presidium. And Joice Mujuru became President Robert Mugabe’s deputy. But…

Anxiety as ZANU-PF congress begins

IT is a time when the fires of internal revolution are burning hottest in the ruling ZANU-PF which holds its much anticipated congress. The build up to this congress has not been without drama. Onlookers have been treated to a series of high octane events following a massive…

Mnangagwa’s journey to the top

TOUGH-TALKING Zimbabwe Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa —dubbed “Ngwena” or “the crocodile”—is likely to emerge from this week on as President Robert Mugabe’s Vice President (VP) and heir apparent. It’s been a very long wait to the top for 68-year-old Mnangagwa, but the timing could not be better. President Mugabe has…

Mutasa gammatoxed beyond recognition

THE ZANU-PF secretary for administration, who is also Minister of Presidential Affairs, Didymus Mutasa, must be ruing the day he came up with the term “gammatox”. Cunningly coining the mischievous term, at the height of political power in the presence of adoring supporters and praise singers, Mutasa was…