Former Finance Minister and Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa is back in the Central Committee as is former Mines Minister Obert Mpofu...
ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu claims the High Court has no jurisdiction to try Mnangagwa while he is the sitting president...
Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) co-deputy Director-General Gatsha Mazithulela Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) secretary for administration Obert Mpofu and Matabeleland North minister of state Richard Moyo are thought to be behind the seizure of a farm belonging to human rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga and his business partners Zephaniah Dhlamini and Charles Moyo...
ZANU-PF also through Sakunda imported very slightly less grand Toyota Land Cruiser VX 200 models worth $5m for former ministers who had been redeployed to the ruling party including: Patrick Chinamasa Obert Mpofu Sydney Sekeremayi David Parirenyatwa Christopher Mushowe Simon Khaya-Moyo Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and Mike Bimha...
Sources in the province say he was thwarted by Obert Mpofu the ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration who is also powerful in Matabeleland North...
Obert Mpofu a veteran minister under Robert Mugabe who was shuffled out of cabinet along with other older factionalists to make room for the new 'technocrats' such as Ncube took advantage of the disgruntlement to criticise the finance minister for not seeking the party's permission...
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Obert Mpofu named Minister of Home Affairs to appease the anti-Mnangagwa faction during the 2017 coup is now considered a burden on the government...
This has caused such consternation that Obert Mpofu ZANU-PF's Secretary for Administration has instructed provincial executives to send all CVs to party headquarters in Harare regardless of whether candidates meet the selection criteria or not...
Mnangagwa's appointment of Obert Mpofu who presided over massive state losses in the diamond industry as mines minister to the cabinet as Home Affairs minister has already prompted widespread opposition (AC Vol 54 No 15 Rushing and cheating)...
His success is in part thanks to Roads Minister Obert Mpofu a strong ally of Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa...
These include Tara Farm acquired by Agriculture Minister Joseph Mtakwese Made; Nyamanda Farm (Indigenisation Minister Francis Nhema AC Vol 55 No 9 Scramble for the top); Nyamazura Farm (Chinamasa); Rise Holm Farm (ex-Lands and Rural Resettlement Minister Herbert Murerwa now Chairman ZESA Holdings); Shigwiri Farm (Ignatius Chombo Local Government); Young Farm (Obert Mpofu Transport); and BW Farm (Walter Mzembi Tourism)...