Grace's allies controlled the disciplinary process that resulted in the dismissal of several of Mnangagwa's allies notably former War Veterans Minister Christopher Mutsvangwa and his wife Monica Mutsvangwa who was the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front Women's League Secretary for Information...
At an IMF stakeholders' conference this month the Minister of Welfare Services for War Veterans and War Collaborators Christopher Mutsvangwa said engagement with the IMF was hopeless and he accused it of maintaining a policy of sanctions on Zimbabwe...
The provincial foot-soldiers here were the Women's League (increasingly loyal to Grace Mugabe) and the rather young war veterans' groups formed under the auspices of Chris Mutsvangwa who has been rewarded with the newly created Veterans ministerial portfolio (AC Vol 55 No 9 Scramble for the top)...
A more nuanced approach might have been possible if the Zimbabwe delegation had included the Deputy Foreign Minister a former Ambassador to China but Chris Mutsvangwa still remains under a disciplinary cloud (AC Vol 55 No 9 Scramble for the top)...
Deputy Foreign Minister Chris Mutsvangwa avenged the snub to his wife by accusing Mutasa of having deliberately created the confusion...
This may be linked to the attack which Deputy Foreign Minister Chris Mutsvangwa made on the diplomatic incompetence of the establishment at the Foreign Ministry (AC Vol 55 No 9 Scramble for the top)...
One example of this was the attack by the Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Chris Mutsvangwa on Foreign Minister Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and his Permanent Secretary Joey Bimha...
The current Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa who was Defence Minister in the coalition and former ambassador to China Christopher Mutsvangwa who is now a deputy Foreign Affairs Minister helped arrange the deals according to security sources in Harare...
They include several parliamentary freshers and Young Turks such as Paul Chimedza (Health) Tendai Savanhu (Lands) Petronella Kagonye (Transport) Supa Mandiwanzira (Information) Christopher Mutsvangwa (Foreign Affairs) and Tongai Muzenda (Labour)...
Vol 4 (AAC) No 9 |
- ZIMBABWE
- CHINA
Zimbabwe’s former Ambassador to China Chris Mutsvangwa described China as Zimbabwe’s ‘national saviour’ and hailed its relations with Zimbabwe as ‘visionary’...