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Zimbabwe’s President Emmerson Mnangagwa vowed on Friday not to revert to using the U.S. dollar after a new local currency plunged against the greenback since its introduction this year, fuelling inflation and economic hardship.
Amid deepening poverty in the country, Zanu PF splurged millions of dollars on its two-day annual conference on food, accommodation and transport, with the ruling party even gloating that it paid for all the services rendered.
Zanu PF bigwigs who gathered in Esigodini for their party’s annual conference last week pleaded with President Emmerson Mnangagwa to act quickly and decisively to stem the country’s worsening economic rot and corruption, in the interests of long-suffering Zimbabweans and social cohesion.
As the Zanu PF conference gets off in earnest in Esigodini today, security agents are stressing over the safety of President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his top aides — as the ruling party converges there for its annual end of year get-together.
ZANU PF is gearing for a potentially explosive conference in Matabeleland South, with various factions within the ruling party trying to outwit each other ahead of the December conclave.
War Veterans loyal to Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa have said there is no need for a December special congress for Zanu PF, and said President Robert Mugabe must rein-in his wife.
The ruling Zanu-PF party, beset by vicious infighting, is one vote shy of an Extraordinary Congress in December after four provinces on Saturday reportedly said they wanted the special indaba.
In an intriguing turn to the factional wars ravaging Zanu PF, President Robert Mugabe now faces re-election at a special congress to be convened by the party in December at which new faces could emerge in the party’s top echelons.
By Fungi Kwaramba and Mugove Tafirenyika The palpable excitement by warring Zanu PF bigwigs ahead of the party’s Masvingo conference turned out to be much ado about nothing, after President Robert Mugabe once again cunningly resisted factional expectations that he would finally show his hand on his bitterly-contested succession. For weeks ahead of the gathering, the […]
At the party’s conference, the Zanu-PF youth wing even proposed that Mr Mugabe should be declared president for life.