Real multi-party politics started raucously in Harare's parliament on 18 July with both sides breaking into song after the election of former Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa as Speaker of the House...
He will have to appoint at least three from Matebeleland to make the ZANU-PF caucus look more representative; he will have to bring in at least three or four women as all but one of ZANU-PF 's female candidates lost; and then he will have to reinstate some of his key ministers who also lost their seats such as former Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa Employment Creation Minister Thenjiwe Lesabe and Deputy Education Minister Sikhanyiso Ndolovu...
Most of the ZANU-PF old guard are staying on - ministers who lost their seats such as Emmerson Mnangagwa and Dumiso Dabengwa are likely to come back as nominated MPs...
Zvinavashe Justice Minister Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and Defence Minister Moven Mahachi...
It's bad news for Rautenbach who left Congo for Harare on 28 March and his backers in the Zimbabwe government such as Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa (AC Vol 41 No 6)...
ZANU-PF is now factionalised along regional-ethnic lines (between the Shona sub-groups the Karanga and the Ndebele) and along ideological lines between hardliners close to the military (such as Mugabe Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa Lieutenant General Vitalis Zvinavashe) and reformers (Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi Local Government Minister John Nkomo Home Affairs Minister Dabengwa)...
The more likely candidates to succeed Mugabe - Local Government Minister John Nkomo Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi - maintained a discreet distance as the referendum campaign degenerated into farce...
He will nominate Emmerson Mnangagwa as his successor provoking deep divisions in ZANU between John Nkomo's faction and Mnangagwa's...
Last month Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa 53 announced their postponement from March to June so that the poll could be held under the rules of the revised constitution...
Rautenbach is a close associate of Zimbabwe's Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and is held up as a key commercial ally for Harare's strategy in the Congo-Kinshasa war (Vol 40 No 22)...