Former Deputy Presidents under Robert Mugabe Joice Mujuru and Phelekezela Mphoko attended as did former first lady Grace Mugabe and her family...
Phelekezela Mphoko the second of two Vice-Presidents is a lightweight with little backing in the party...
The other Vice-President is Phelekezela Mphoko who has been in business with Grace and is part of the G40 network...
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The most prominent members of G40 are Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo Local Government and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere Youth Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister and presidential nephew Patrick Zhuwao and the other Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko...
The Generation 40 (G-40) group linked to Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere plans to propose that a woman be included in the party presidium which currently comprises Robert Mugabe and his two vice-presidents Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko (AC Vol 56 No 17 The 'Grace plot' thickens)...
Factionalism is going to become even more dominant unless Grace Mugabe's undermining of the two Vice-Presidents Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko is reined in...
Both he and his co-Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko who emerged from obscurity to take over the party and state positions reserved for former Patriotic Front-Zimbabwe African People's Union cadres were instructed to support Grace's bid for power probably around the time of the celebrations for President Mugabe's 91st birthday in February (AC Vol 56 No 1 The year of leaving dangerously & Vol 56 No 11 Bye-bye unity)...
One of his first tasks will be to soothe tempers frayed by Phelekezela Mphoko who emerged from obscurity last year to become one of the two national vice-presidents a job Simon Khaya Moyo believes should have been his were he not thought too close to Mujuru (AC Vol 56 No 1 The year of leaving dangerously)...
Mnangagwa's own followers include top securocrats and his Co-Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko...
The countervailing force in the leadership is not however the other Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko a 74-year-old Ndebele ex-diplomat and political nonentity with a decent liberation war pedigree...