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There was drama over the weekend with claims that Deputy Transport Minister Mike Madiro, who is also the Zanu PF Manicaland provincial chairman, was the target of an assassination attempt as factionalism in the party boiled over into skirmishes.
By Tendai Kamhungira Zanu PF’s deadly tribal, factional, and succession wars rose a notch higher yesterday after the government cracked down on some of Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s supporters, with police arresting former ruling party youth official Godfrey Tsenengamu over his Harare press conference on Monday. Zanu PF insiders who spoke to the Daily News […]
There is gnashing of teeth among Zanu PF’s bigwigs hoping to succeed President Robert Mugabe, after the country’s long-ruling leader said pointedly that Zimbabweans did not feel that there was a worthy and acceptable candidate among them to take over from him. Speaking in his choreographed annual interview with ZBC last week, ahead of his […]
Many authors have undertaken to illuminate the factual soul of factionalism in diverse establishments. Some have turned into overnight doyens on the aforementioned subject. Truly, it is their democratic right to try to highlight what they see unfolding in the near future.
President Mugabe, 88 says he is still fit and strong enough to contest in the next election which he is clamouring for this year. Mugabe aired these sentiments yesterday during the Zanu PF Women’s assembly meeting held at the Zimbabwe Institute of Public Management.
Fresh divisions have rocked Zanu PF with information emerging that battle lines have been drawn in Mashonaland East where the restructuring of district coordinating committees (DCCs) has been marred by chaos.
HARARE- Vice President Joice Mujuru has slammed senior Zanu PF officials fuelling infighting through succession battles driven by their presidential ambitions, saying they should respect the party hierarchy — remarks seen as directed at her bitter rival.
The MDC-T Bulawayo East district has passed a vote of no confidence in its legislator Thabitha Khumalo as factionalism in the province intensifies ahead of elections expected this year or next year.
HARARE – Zanu PF politburo member and serial political flip-flopper Jonathan Moyo has virtually branded factional leaders in his party “riff-raff and shallow-minded schemers”, in a move likely to cause further divisions in the 49-year-old movement.
Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s controversial “marriage” saga with well-off Harare businesswoman Lorcadia Karimatsenga Tembo has created a political powder keg which could explode in his face amid clear indications it is intertwined with simmering factionalism within his MDC-T party and Zanu PF.