December 19, 2024
GOVERNMENT’S failure to finalise its land reforms has created uncertainty in the agricultural sector while exposing ZANU-PF’s policy shortcomings. In 2000, the former veterans of the liberation struggle that brought Zimbabwe’s independence in 1980 kick-started violent land seizures targeting minority whites, giving birth to the land reforms. Fifteen…
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…
THE newly-appointed ZANU-PF secretary for the commissariat, Saviour Kasukuwere has an arduous task ahead of him in the New Year, as the ruling party faces the challenge of pulling itself together in the aftermath of a bloody congress held last December which claimed the scalps of several top…
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe unveiled a new Politburo that elevated a long-time confidante, Emmerson Mnangagwa, known in party circles as “the crocodile”, to the position of co-vice-president, in what could be his first clearest hint about the choice of his successor. The move came after he had mercilessly dismantled…
FIRED Energy Minister Dzikamai Mavhaire’s love-hate relationship with President Robert Mugabe is a perfect example of how one can resurrect from political obscurity to political stardom, and then fall back again to the political dustbins — all in the blink of an eye. Mavhaire is one of the…
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…
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…
FROM the scandalous youths and women’s league conferences in August; the supersonic rise of First Lady, Grace Mugabe; the votes of no confidence; the mudslinging playing out in the party and now the treason allegations against high-profile party officials, President Robert Mugabe’s ruling ZANU-PF party has given the…
DESPITE some decades-long bad blood between Nyatsime College and ZANU-PF over land expropriation, the institution will next week provide accommodation to delegates of the ruling party’s congress. At least 300 delegates to the forthcoming ZANU-PF congress will stay at Nyatsime College in Chitungwiza, an institution from which the…
THE movers and shakers in ZANU-PF’s factional fights are living in constant fear in the wake of escalating incidents of violence in several parts of the country, the Financial Gazette can report. Tension is currently high across party structures, as comrades turn against comrades — in probably the ugliest infighting…