‘Mnangagwa pulling ahead’
United Kingdom-based politics expert, Stephen Chan, says Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is steaming ahead in the nasty Zanu PF race to succeed President Robert Mugabe.
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United Kingdom-based politics expert, Stephen Chan, says Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa is steaming ahead in the nasty Zanu PF race to succeed President Robert Mugabe.
By Dumisani Muleya It has been rather refreshing to watch Zanu PF’s Hollywood-style succession drama from the sidelines at home while I was on leave since the beginning of the year until this week. Now back in the newsroom after a long break, it is no longer just fascinating, but rather scary as details of […]
By Moses Matenga FIRST LADY Grace Mugabe on Saturday hinted that President Robert Mugabe could name an outsider to succeed him as she warned the veteran ruler’s lieutenants against becoming too ambitious. Grace’s revelations provide the first insight into Mugabe’s succession plans as he has kept the matter close to his chest. They came a few […]
Eddie Cross – Change is in the air in Zimbabwe. Suddenly it seems as if the old regime is in its last stages and new leadership is possible.
The ruling ZANU-PF could be headed for a devastating split at its elective congress to be held in early December with none of the factions fighting to succeed President Robert Mugabe willing to make concessions that could save the 51-year-old party from disintegrating.
The birth of a dynasty is not an easy thing to predict. But many Zimbabweans now seem preoccupied by the tantalising possibility that the Mugabes are seeking to join the list – admittedly a shrinking list – of families who have managed to pass the reins of power across the dinner table.
Reports concerning those vying for the presidency are usually based upon conjecture and political gossip. The conventional wisdom in Zimbabwe is that there are two main factions within ZANU PF contending for the presidency on Mugabe’s departure, those who grouped around the late Solomon Mujuru and are now grouped around his wife Joice, and those grouped around Emmerson Mnangagwa.
The rules and regulations for election into the Zanu PF central committee crafted by the party’s national elections directorate, and endorsed by the politburo with minor changes last week, have become the new battleground for factional battles amid revelations members of Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa’s faction are strenuously pushing for their urgent review.
The political jostling within ZANU PF is showing no sign of slowing down, amid reports that Vice President Joice Mujuru and her loyalists have ‘tweaked’ central committee eligibility rules ahead of the party’s December congress.
Martin Meredith’s The State of Africa: A History of the Continent Since Independence exposes how western interests have exploited factional faults in most African nationalist movements to their advantage leaving a disastrous trail for the indigenous people in the process.