Emmerson Mnangagwa

I promised to write this piece. Not because it is fashionable, nor because it is safe, but because Zimbabweans are being invited—again—to confuse political theatre with political destiny.
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HARARE - President Emmerson Mnangagwa used the last Cabinet meeting of 2025 to urge ministers to improve attendance and tighten the quality of their work, warning against a growing tendency to miss key Cabinet and committee sittings.
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Zimbabwe is a strange place to stay. Yesterday, the world marked International Anti-Corruption Day, and President Emmerson Mnangagwa addressed the nation with familiar-sounding commitments to “zero tolerance” against corruption.
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President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s recent appointment of new commanders of the Defence Forces is not the routine choreography of state administration; it is a calculated consolidation of power, executed with the precision of a ruler who…
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The Standard article of 7 December 2025, in which ZANU PF political commissar Munyaradzi Machacha confirms that draft constitutional amendments to extend President Mnangagwa’s term of office will soon be gazetted, removes any remaining…
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HARARE - Vice President Constantino Chiwenga has issued a sharp critique of 'newly' wealthy Zimbabweans who are seemingly aligned to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, questioning their spending priorities and urging them to channel their…
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HARARE - Speaker of Parliament Jacob Mudenda has filed an opposing affidavit in the Constitutional Court of Zimbabwe, dismissing a challenge to potential constitutional amendments extending President Emmerson Mnangagwa's term beyond 2028 as…
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HARARE - Zimbabwean President Emmerson Mnangagwa has remained silent as South African President Cyril Ramaphosa comes under direct attack from U.S. President Donald Trump over the 2026 G20 Summit, a silence that has drawn attention given…
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Where Mugabe relied on charisma, revolutionary legitimacy and a dense web of patronage networks that often competed with one another, Mnangagwa has relied on quiet institutional capture, incremental coercion and the strategic alliance of…
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If Mnangagwa and Chiwenga—men bound by decades of struggle, political sacrifice, party loyalty, and a historic coup—could drift into mutual distrust, why would he imagine that someone like Kudakwashe Tagwirei will remain loyal?
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