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A ZANU-PF delegate to the just- ended annual national people’s conference in Victoria Falls died while five others are battling for life at Mpilo Central Hospital after a Mercedes Benz they were travelling in overturned and rolled several times along the Bulawayo-Victoria Falls Road. The accident occurred at Insuza on Sunday at about 3pm as […]
By Fungi Kwaramba VICTORIA FALLS – Instead of healing the gaping wounds in the body politic of President Robert Mugabe’s warring post-congress Zanu PF, last week’s party conference only managed to paper over the cracks — with rival factions departing Mosi-oa-Tunya as determined as ever to fight to the death over control of the former […]
By Fungi Kwaramba VICTORIA FALLS – President Robert Mugabe finds himself between a rock and a hard place after Zanu PF members opposed to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding him agitated yesterday for a firm timetable on the appointment of a woman to the ruling party’s presidium. This means that Mugabe is now under severe pressure […]
In a sensational pronouncement, President Robert Mugabe warned the army, the police and the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) against participating and meddling in the post-congress Zanu PF’s seemingly unstoppable factional and succession wars. Contrary to expectations, the party’s deadly factional fights have worsened since the brutal ouster of former Vice President Joice Mujuru and her […]
By Fungi Kwaramba VICTORIA FALLS – First Lady Grace Mugabe was the runaway star at the official opening of the post-congress Zanu PF’s conference yesterday — with wild cheering and whistling punctuating the air each time her name was mentioned. Even though the increasingly influential women’s league boss did not have an opportunity to address […]
By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe said on Friday his country’s military and other security services were supporting different candidates to succeed him, warning that this could ruin the ruling party. Speaking at an annual conference of his ruling ZANU-PF party in the resort town of Victoria Falls, Mugabe, 91, said one […]