Separately party chiefs accuse ZANU-PF of destabilisation claiming officials close to Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo are offering bribes of up to Z$10 million to any councillor who leaves the MDC...
According to the government's land audit last year Chiyangwa had quarrelled with Mashonaland West Governor Peter Chanetsa (whose retirement was announced last month and whose household was reported by the Utete Committee to own nine farms) and Minister of Local Government Ignatius Chombo over the allocation of 90 farms which caused them to remain idle for two years...
To complicate matters more candidates for the vice-presidency are throwing their hats into the ring: Foreign Minister Mudenge positioning himself as the candidate who could unite the Karanga and two Mugabe favourites – Nicholas Goche (Mashonaland Central Governor and Minister of State for National Security in the President's Office) and Ignatius Chombo (Local Government Public Works and National Housing)...
Information Minister Jonathan Moyo Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo and 13 other ministers have secured several farms in violation of the government's 'one man one farm' rule the report says...
For example the report of those violating the 'one man one farm' rule reads like a list of the ZANU-PF elite and their allies: Information Minister Moyo presidential sister Sabina Mugabe; former Higher Education Minister Ignatius Chombo; Defence Minister Sydney Sekeremayi; the Air Force Commander Air Marshal Perence Shiri; Provincial Governors Eliot Manyika Obert Mpofu Peter Chanetsa Josia Hungwe; newspaper publishers Ibbo Mandaza and Mtumwa Mawere; and Barclays Bank Chief Executive Alex Jongwe...
Another ally is Ignatius Chombo a party boss damaged by allegations of grand corruption...
Crucial agriculture Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo predicts a sixfold increase in maize production by smallholders on the resettled land giving a harvest of 4...
Control of land policy was seized by Lands and Agriculture Minister Joseph Made and by the man who would be king Mugabe's former favourite and current Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo who has been eclipsed over the past year...
Ignatius Chombo another Mugabe favourite has been promoted to Local Government from Higher Education...
Fast rising Deputy Education Minister Ignatius Chombo tipped as a possible successor to Mugabe appeared to be sidelined in the contest...