One of Zimbabwe's canniest operators Tagwirei who financed ZANU-PF's election campaign in 2018 has evaded any attempt to limit his sprawling empire and maintains close ties to both Mnangagwa and Vice-President General Constantino Chiwenga even though they are bitter rivals (AC Vol 61 No 8 Rule by rivalry)...
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A divorce settlement inadvertently revealed that Constantino Chiwenga had secured titles to the farm he violently expropriated together with his former wife Jocelyn Chiwenga under Title No...
Against the supremacy of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) is pitted the armed forces loyal to the former army general Constantino Chiwenga now the Vice-President...
Moyo was soon removed however and replaced with General Constantino Chiwenga the Vice-President...
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An intriguing puzzle is how Tagwirei managed to stay on equally good terms with both Mnangagwa and his deputy General Constantino Chiwenga...
The tensions between President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga will continue to generate speculation and anxiety about a possible coup...
Until now Tagwirei was thought to be at odds with the President over widely-reported suspicions that Tagwirei's close ally former Army Commander and now Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga had ambitions to take over the presidency...
Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga is in China for medical treatment...
President Mnangagwa and Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga have never been popular in Matabeleland because of their roles in the Gukurahundi massacres in the 1980s (AC Vol 51 No 18 Ghostly presences)...
Others say the regime's fissures over the crackdown are being presented – falsely – as a confrontation between Mnangagwa's reform plans and the hard-line military stance of Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga who led the coup against President Robert Mugabe in November 2017 (AC Vol 58 no 23 The crocodile snaps back)...
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