Dabengwa's backing comes not only from Msika and his ex-Zipra friends but also probably from the current Vice-President Joyce Mujuru who is Mugabe's likeliest successor (AC Vol 47 No 10)...
With the nom de guerre Teurai Ropa ('Spill Blood') Vice-President Comrade Joyce Mujuru Chimurenga (née Runaida Mugari) has been consecrated as front-line successor to President Robert Gabriel Mugabe blessed by himself senior military officers and her husband former army commander Solomon Mujuru...
With the nom de guerre Teurai Ropa ('Spill Blood') Vice-President Comrade Joyce Mujuru Chimurenga (née Runaida Mugari) has been consecrated as front-line successor to President Robert Gabriel Mugabe blessed by himself senior military officers and her husband former army commander Solomon Mujuru...
With the nom de guerre Teurai Ropa ('Spill Blood') Vice-President Comrade Joyce Mujuru Chimurenga (née Runaida Mugari) has been consecrated as front-line successor to President Robert Gabriel Mugabe blessed by himself senior military officers and her husband former army commander Solomon Mujuru...
Joyce Mujuru throws her political weight around...
The recovery programme formerly headed by Central Bank Governor Gideon Gono has been moved up a notch; Vice-President Joyce Mujuru is in charge at the political level with the Secretary to the President and Cabinet Misheck Sibanda in charge of technical committees...
The stumbling block is ZANU especially Vice-President Joyce Mujuru and her powerful husband Solomon Mujuru...
He still resents the promotion of Joyce Mujuru ostensibly on the grounds that she got the job because one of the ruling party's vice-presidents must be a woman...
Some believe Solomon Mujuru's faction of ZANU-PF has infiltrated the MDC in the hope of paving the way for his wife Vice-President Joyce Mujuru...
Opponents of the Mujuru husband-and-wife team were upset by the way Mugabe bulldozed Joyce Mujuru into the vice-presidency in defiance of the party constitution and despite his claims that he wasn't grooming a successor...
Since South African Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka met Mugabe and Vice-President Joyce Mujuru on 12 July there have been hints that Mbeki and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo will use economic leverage to force a political settlement...
Mugabe's team is quarrelling too and his chosen successor Joyce Mujuru looks damaged beyond repair...
And Anglo-American intends to use the proceeds from its sale of Anzim subsidiary to retired army General Solomon Mujuru (husband of Vice-President Joyce Mujuru) to fund its US$100 million Unki Platinum Mine project due for 2007...
Vice-Presidents Joseph Msika and Joyce Mujuru - both big landowners themselves - have signalled that the war on white farmers is over...
But few believe his choice of Joyce Mujuru as second Vice-President ends the matter Mugabe could still try to parachute in another candidate...
He is backed by former Chief of Staff of the Defence Forces Vitalis Zvinavashe and former Chief Air Marshal Josiah Tungamirai who were both senior to Joyce Mujuru in the liberation struggle...
An MDC election boycott would mean a ZANU-PF dominated parliament which would amend the constitution to give new Vice-President Joyce 'Teurai Ropa' Mujuru stronger powers...