Another corruption investigation into the near-bankrupt Zimbabwe Iron & Steel Company (ZISCO) initially targeted the Mujurus' great rival for the presidential succession Emmerson Mnangagwa who was managing ZANU-PF finances and its links to funds misappropriated from ZISCO...
However his promises of support for factions - Joyce Mujuru's Emmerson Mnangagwa's or the Matebeleland group - consume huge amounts of political energy and divert party cadres from the worsening political and economic crises...
None of the mooted candidates - Vice-President Joyce Mujuru Emmerson Mnangagwa Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono or Dumiso Dabengwa - have convinced Zimbabweans that they could tackle the crisis...
Both Solomon Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa are wealthy businessmen and tough on security issues...
Emmerson Mnangagwa is resilient...
Mujuru distrusts Emmerson Mnangagwa who stopped him taking over the former Union Carbide operations in Kwekwe when the company sold out...
Vol 47 No 17 |
- ZIMBABWE
- ECONOMY
The governor's presidential ambitions Emmerson Mnangagwa the heir-apparent until the Mujurus scuttled his plan is working quietly through proxies against the Mujurus...
Bredenkamp had been extremely close to former Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa who was regarded as President Robert Mugabe's heir apparent until he was trounced in a power struggle with General Solomon Mujuru whose wife Joyce emerged as Vice-President in December 2004...
Moyo's UPM is widely considered to be surviving only on the goodwill of Emmerson Mnangagwa who is not willing to abandon ZANU-PF...
Now the Mujuru couple must fight both Mutambara and Emmerson Mnangagwa who is lying low but remains a contender for the succession...
Earlier this month it emerged that ZANU's leading Karanga politician Emmerson Mnangagwa had been under surveillance by the Central Intelligence Organisation...
The logical successor to Tungamirai as Masvingo leader is Lieutenant General Vitalis Zvinavashe retired chief of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces whose close political and business associate Emmerson Mnangagwa wants to be president...
Ncube may have tried to persuade Moyo to join the MDC but Moyo seems more interested in reforming ZANU-PF alongside the (Ndebele) former parliamentary speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa (see Pointer)...
Moyo's political partner is former parliamentary Speaker and Security Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa; backing Mnangagwa's vice-presidential ambitions cost Moyo his job as President Robert Mugabe's Information Minister...