ZANU-PF is making overtures to court former Movement for Democratic Change (MDC-T) national organising secretary, Nelson Chamisa. He was defeated by former Nyanga North MP, Douglas Mwonzora, for the MDC-T secretary-general post at the party’s elective congress held earlier this month. Reports say that the Kuwadzana legislator has…
SUSPENDED ZANU-PF politician, Rugare Gumbo is itching to clear his name once the “dust has settled” in the troubled revolutionary party following damning allegations that the liberation war icon has been selling out the party leadership in recent months as he allegedly did during the liberation struggle. Gumbo…
IN civilised society treasonous behaviour is regarded as a cancer which must be gotten rid of as quickly and as quietly as possible. In asymmetric (primitive) society, such behaviour seems to call for high drama and public humiliation, thus destroying all chances of a quiet resolution. Society is…
VICE President Joice Mujuru may very well be serving her last days as President Robert Mugabe’s second in command despite bravely weathering the torrent of calls for her to resign so far, analysts have said. The last three-month lag of her 10-year tenure as Vice President and second secretary of…
RUGARE Gumbo (RG), a 74-year-old ZANU-PF stalwart, whose standing in the revolutionary movement dates back to the liberation struggle, and is the only surviving member of the ZANU Dare reChimurenga which planned the war while President Robert Mugabe and other leaders were in prison, was last week suspended…
LOBBYING for leadership positions in the ruling ZANU-PF party’s Women’s League is in full swing ahead of next month’s congress with the wing’s boss Oppah Muchinguri’s position at threat and as wives of bigwigs in the party spoil for senior positions. The party has set the Women’s League…
THE defining characteristic of Zimbabwe’s indigenisation policy has been the wide disjuncture between the law (as it is), government pronouncements of the law (as they would like the public to believe it to be) and the policy in practice. The disjuncture between the two signalled that the caprice…
THE ZANU-PF Youth League is divided right through the middle over controversial amendments to guidelines governing the election of new office bearers at its congress set for next month. In a clear show of defiance, the majority of the youths are planning to petition the Politburo — ZANU-PF’s…
WITH factionalism ravaging the country’s largest and to date the most competitive opposition party into near annihilation, Zimbabwe could emerge out of the crisis in the opposition a de-facto one-party state, critics point out. The internal strife in the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC–T), which came to a…
EDITOR — Zimbabwe is on the brink of becoming a global major mining power, a renowned British think tank, Chatham House has said. In a recently published report titled Zimbabwe International Re-engagement: The Long Haul to Recovery, Chatham House applauded ZANU-PF’s indigenisation policy and the land reform programme…