Vol 4 (AAC) No 9 |
- ZIMBABWE
- CHINA
This required parliamentary approval and was railroaded through by Finance Minister Tendai Biti and Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa despite the objections of their respective backbenchers...
Equally few believe that the simultaneous visit by Defence Forces chief General Constantine Chiwengwa to Beijing was purely for an emergency medical check-up of ‘the sort we all periodically undergo’ in the words of Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa...
Almost as galling would be accepting Jonathan Moyo Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa’s strategist into the Politburo...
The role of Baby Croc is taken by Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa (64) whose nickname is ‘Ngwenya’ also meaning crocodile but in Sindebele...
But Moyo attached himself to the camp of Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa devising a strategy that first boosted Mnangagwa’s position before being adopted to revitalise the whole party...
Last Sunday's Standard confirmed that the President's former spin doctor Jonathan Moyo has been working for Emmerson Mnangagwa and the Joint Monitoring and Implementation Committee since December (AC Vol 50 No 10)...
Whether or not it was The Herald’s tactics that forced Chikane’s hand his final report will be much to the liking of President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front and particularly to that of Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa who as Chairman of the Joint Operations Command takes a special interest in the military occupation of the Marange fields...
The business is dominated by the ruling clique in the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) but even there rival factions led by General Solomon Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa fight for dealing rights and revenue...
Last year a poaching trial in which Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and Information Minister Webster Shamu (both ZANU-PF) were billed as star witnesses had to be shelved when the file docket disappeared in the prosecutor’s office...
Joice Mujuru and Simon Khaya Moyo have no wish to upset Nkomo or help Emmerson Mnangagwa’s succession campaign by boosting his lieutenant Jonathan Moyo...