Simukai Tinhu

By Simukai Tinhu With Mnangagwa and his vice president’s tussling for power as we hurtle towards 2023, the Mashurugwis, who are directly controlled by the state security minister, Owen ‘’Mudha’’ Ncube and Local government minister, July…
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This is a continuation from last week in which the writer unravels the British foreign policy with regard to the current succession game plan in Zimbabwe.
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By Simukai Tinhu In the capital, Harare, there are clamorous whispers of an impending demise of Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Indeed, this week, a local daily in one of its headlines even had the audacity to suggest that the…
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By Simukai Tinhu Zanu PF has had a close brush with death before. In 2008, its leader, President Robert Mugabe, was defeated in the first round of the presidential elections. The liberation movement, also, for the first time, lost its…
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An article by Simukai Tinhu, which appeared in the Zimbabwe Independent newspaper of 23-29 October titled “Mnangagwa cuts lonely figure”, makes very interesting reading.
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Simukai Tinhu - Once Mugabe is gone, all bets are off on Zimbabwe’s political future, and no one will know who the political currents might wash up and to where. Even self-proclaimed managers of events such as Mnangagwa are aware that they…
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Simukai Tinhu - Twenty years ago, there wasn’t really a Zimbabwean diasporan community in the sense that we talk about it today. Of course, few would go abroad, mostly to study. But with little personal or financial investments in foreign…
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In Zimbabwe, the end of President Robert Mugabe’s leadership of both his political party and the country is fast approaching. Ahead of the party’s congress in December this year, where a new leadership is expected to be elected, pretenders…
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This year could see Robert Mugabe's successor emerge once and for all, but who will it be? Joice Mujuru has the numbers, but Emmerson Mnangagwa has the powerful backers.
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