Post Tagged with: "Didymus Mutasa"

Moses Chamboko
Opinion / Politics

Paranoid Zanu PF in self-destruction overdrive

Self-appointed ZANU PF strategist and spokesperson, Jonathan Moyo, together with a good number of ZANU PF MPS and ministers, are likely to be actively looking for a job by Christmas if they don’t intend to go into full-time subsistence farming or small-scale mining.

Dorothy Mabika’s stocktheft trial has now put Enock Porisingazi in the hot seat
Courts / Crimes / News / Politics

Top Zanu PF official stole 80 cattle

MUTARE – Zanu PF top official Enock Porisingazi was left quaking in his boots after being fingered in the rustling of 80 cattle belonging to farmer David Jourbert, whose evidence, nailing the towering ex-Chipinge South legislator, added an intriguing twist.

Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa
Courts / Crimes / News / Politics

Dorothy Mabika: I turned down Didymus Mutasa’s sexual advances

MUTARE — The livestock theft case which has divided Zanu PF officials in Manicaland Province took a new twist today with Dorothy Mabika, alleging that she is being persecuted because she spurned sexual advances from Presidential Affairs Minister Didymus Mutasa.

Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa
Lest We Forget / News / Politics / Zimbabwe Wall of Shame

Zimbabwe Wall of Shame: Didymus Mutasa

The Minister of State for Presidential Affairs, Didymus Mutasa, led violent political campaigns in his Headlands constituency and other parts of the country. As a former Minister responsible for the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) he often used its agents.

Didymus Mutasa
News / Politics

Didymus Mutasa floors Mnangagwa

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe’s loyalist Didymus Mutasa is walking with a spring after outsmarting a wing within Zanu PF linked to Defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa at the weekend. Mutasa is also plotting the downfall of Justice minister Patrick Chinamasa.

Women’s League boss Oppah Muchinguri (left) wants to get rid of Didymus Mutasa
News / Politics

Fresh coup plot in Zanu PF

HARARE – An alleged coup plot against Zanu PF administration secretary Didymus Mutasa gives a glimpse of the power struggle within President Robert Mugabe’s party over succession. A clandestine meeting was held on Friday night….

Zanu PF provincial chairman Mike Madiro
Courts / Crimes / News / Politics

Madiro allegedly stole Mugabe cattle

MUTARE – Suspended Zanu-PF Manicaland chairman, Mike Madiro and his acting predecessor Dorothy Mabika were today arraigned before Mutare provincial magistrate Lucie-Anne Mungwari facing allegations of stock-theft.

Lance Guma
Lest We Forget / Opinion / Politics / Through the Wire

Through the Wire: Why Didymus Mutasa must be arrested ‘yesterday’

Minister of State for Presidential Affairs (and Political Violence) Didymus Mutasa is desperately trying to cleanse himself of any blame for the tragic death of Christpowers Maisiri, the 12 year old boy who died after the hut his family was sleeping in was burnt down.

Christpowers father and his family seen here with MDC-T MP Eddie Cross.
News / Politics

Suspected Maisiri murderers named

Four Zanu PF activists have been named as having taken part in the murder of Christpower Maisiri, the 12 year old son of an MDC-T aspiring candidate who was burnt to death after the hut he and his family was sleeping in was torched.

Zanu PF secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa
Opinion / Politics

Something rotten in the state of Denmark

“Something rotten in the state of Denmark” the quotation from Shakespeare’s Hamlet seems particularly apt with regard to the state of Zimbabwe writes Pauline Henson in this week’s Outside Looking In: Letter from the Diaspora.

Zanu PF primary elections set for February
Elections / News / Politics

Zanu PF primary elections set for February

Zanu PF will conduct primary elections in February next year to select candidates to represent it in harmonised polls scheduled for next year after completing drafting rules and regulations to govern the conduct of the exercise.

MDC-T spokesman Douglas Mwonzora
Elections / News / Politics

Outcry over MDC-T directive on primaries

There is an outcry in the MDC-T over attempts by the party leadership to spare sitting legislators from facing primary elections, with some aspiring candidates describing the move as “undemocratic”.

Dumb and Dumber: Chinamasa and Gumbo under fire
Elections / News / Politics

Turmoil in Zanu PF over ‘coup’ statements

HARARE – Civil war has broken out in the former ruling ZANU PF over interviews given by senior party figures saying that Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai will not be allowed to take over power should he win next year’s presidential elections.

Thug in Chief: Jimmy Kunaka leads the notorious ZANU PF Chipangano gang
Crimes / News

Zanu PF terror gang cornered

HARARE – Operators of minibuses in Zimbabwe’s capital have officially lodged a police report against Zanu PF Harare youth chairperson Jimu Kunaka and his Chipangano militia for allegedly extorting money from minibus drivers.

The late Vice President John Nkomo, Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa (who led the CIO during the Gukurahundi Massacres) and President Robert Mugabe
News

Crunch time for deeply divided Zanu PF

HARARE – President Robert Mugabe headed into Wednesday’s politburo meeting seeking to bridge growing fissures in his deeply divided Zanu PF party over succession issues and the dissolution of the party’s district coordinating committees (DCCs).