The factions supporting the two main contenders to succeed President Robert Mugabe – Joice Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa – are fighting for control of the state airline compounding its problems of poor service and corporate debts...
Allies of her rival the Justice Minister and former intelligence chief Emmerson Mnangagwa managed to escape scrutiny...
The two main contenders – Vice-President Joice Mujuru and Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa – remain implacable foes with both of them spending much time trying to wrongfoot the other...
Vol 55 No 4 |
- ZIMBABWE
- CHINA
a year as an advisor is aligned to Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa...
All that Mujuru – and the other leading faction leader Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa – can do is to make secret alliances and organise behind the scenes...
There is some overlap with the Mugabe Five-Year Team which Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa has thrown his weight behind...
The current Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa who was Defence Minister in the coalition and former ambassador to China Christopher Mutsvangwa who is now a deputy Foreign Affairs Minister helped arrange the deals according to security sources in Harare...
That her supporters prevailed in Midlands – Emmerson Mnangagwa's home base – was a surprise and has spurred a rethink in the Justice Minister's strategy as well as accusations of vote-rigging...
This is because Mushayavanhu and now Ketan Joshi are highly influential members of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front who have for decades been managers of ZANU-PF's finances and are considered part of Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa's faction according to insiders in Harare...
Zimbabwe's former Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa helped to establish the First National Bank in Kinshasa and Lubumbashi as a joint venture between the two countries...