After long discussions with Zimbabwe's parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa South African President Thabo Mbeki has assured close associates that Mugabe is indeed ready to go but 'with dignity'...
Emmerson Mnangagwa Speaker of parliament and Mugabe's putative successor as ZANU-PF leader dismissed Tsvangirai's demands for a re-run as a 'pipedream'...
Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa: Speaker of parliament and former Security Minister; ZANU-PF Secretary for Finance and Chairman of ZANU's ZIDCO Holdings; Mnangagwa was Chairman of ZANU's old financing vehicle M & S Investments and is Chairman of asbestos exporter Fibrolite (joint venture with Armando Godinko); he is also a director of Opporto Investments Galant Distribution Galhold Investments Woolworth Trading and Treasure Holdings; most lucrative has been his management of ZANU's and the military's investments and trade deals in Congo-K where he is a kingpin of the regional diamond trade; Mnangagwa's key business associates are two white Zimbabweans Billy Rautenbach (for whom Interpol has issued an international arrest warrant) and British-based John Bredenkamp; and an Omani Thamer al-Shanfari...
Whoever wins the vote the relationships between Oryx Chief Executive Thamer Al-Shanfari Bredenkamp and senior Zimbabwean politicians and soldiers such as Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and Lieutenant General Vitalis Zvinavashe will win more scrutiny...
He is working alongside former CIO Chief and Security Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa who is now Parliamentary Speaker and Security Minister Nicholas Goche...
His strategy close friends say is to win the election at all costs then hand over to the parliamentary Speaker and former spymaster Emmerson Mnangagwa...
Vol 42 No 18 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
Bredenkamp who is close to Zimbabwe's parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa has better access to Kabila than Forrest...
The most probable is the Speaker of parliament and a favourite of Mugabe Emmerson Mnangagwa although many would like to stop him...
Mugabe's heir apparent and parliamentary speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa not known to like any of the deceased suggested unearthly forces: 'We don't know what is hitting us...
His detractors said that the Ministry of Defence was in reality run by Emmerson Mnangagwa and pointed to Mahachi's blunder in January when he announced the death of Laurent Kabila as his colleagues still insisted he was 'resting' in a Harare hospital (AC Vol 42 No 2)...
The key players are the ZDF Commander Lieutenant General Vitalis Zvinavashe and Parliamentary Speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa...
Mugabe's announcement has rekindled suspicions that he will call an early presidential election in July or August which he will win by hook or crook and then stand down to allow his chosen successor to take over: Emmerson Mnangagwa as parliamentary Speaker has been aloof from most of the partisan confrontations...