A Zimbabwean source claimed South Africa's aim was to secure 'assisted regime change' by backing a strong candidate against President Robert Mugabe for ZANU-PF's leadership; Pretoria's favoured candidate the source said was parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa whose bid for the deputy presidency failed at the party congress in December...
All the men including Chiyangwa are seen as sympathetic to parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa's presidential ambitions raising concerns about political motives behind the charges...
The ZANU-PF congress last week clinched the deal (AC Vol 45 No 24) when Mujuru beat Emmerson Mnangagwa to the vice-presidency...
Tsvangirai described Emmerson Mnangagwa's faction in ZANU-PF as a 'party within a party' adding that it lacked a big enough constituency to beat Joyce Mujuru's backers including Mugabe...
The President's faction of his Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front party has already scuppered the succession hopes of bookies' favourite Emmerson Mnangagwa...
Feared and unpopular he may be but Parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa has now revealed himself to be a serious contender for the vacant vice-presidency...
Vol 45 No 21 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
He told Africa Confidential that the Commission had already contacted three leading groups - the state mining corporation Gécamines Belgium's Forrest Group and Kababankola Mining Company headed by John Bredenkamp a close associate of Zimbabwe's parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa...
The Securocrats include Emmerson Mnangagwa former intelligence chief and now parliamentary Speaker and the former Defence Force Commander General Vitalis Zvinavashe...
This attempt at a velvet divorce was rejected by Mugabe and Mawere's former politico-business partner Emmerson Mnangagwa...
It also accused Oryx of bribing Zimbabwe's Parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa now under investigation for corruption by the country's ruling party (AC Vol 43 No 8)...