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Simba Makoni on Question Time: Part 1

Former Finance Minister and Zanu PF politburo member, Simba Makoni, is the guest on Question Time. Makoni now leads the Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn party and joins journalist Lance Guma to answer questions from SW Radio Africa listeners.

Age clause set to bar Mugabe from election

HARARE- As the Constitution Select Committee (Copac) is busy working on a draft document, it has now emerged that most people who made inputs during the body’s countrywide outreach meetings want the maximum age for a presidential candidate to be 70 years as at the time of polling.

Mugabe in dilemma over successor

HARARE- President Robert Mugabe, whose continued stay in power despite failing health and advanced age is increasingly becoming a catalyst for internal divisions within Zanu PF, is in a dilemma over finding his ideal successor, Zanu PF insiders revealed this week.

Dabengwa quit Zanu PF over sour grapes

Although Dabengwa championed the revival of Zapu after the election defeat of his preferred presidential candidate and former fellow Zanu PF politburo member, Simba Makoni, he had been in the wilderness politically for close to a decade since he had failed to win a seat in Bulawayo since 2000.