The government is making several payments to dispossessed farmers to regularise the legal status of land held by President Robert Mugabe's family and leading members of the ruling party Africa Confidential has learned...
The rival factions in power differ over economic strategy while the increasingly vocal opposition opposes any foreign money deal which it sees as bailing out President Robert Mugabe's ailing government (AC Vol 57 No 17 Patriotism politics and position)...
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ZANU-PF cadres fiercely resent the idea that President Robert Mugabe should cede his mandate to a transitional authority even if it is ostensibly non-partisan...
Hostility within the government is mounting towards the plan which is championed by Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa and Reserve Bank Governor John Mangudya and backed by President Robert Mugabe for a rapprochement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank (AC Vol 57 No 13 Political questions loom as debt deal is set for September)...
A fistful of dollars As the country's cash crisis deepens doubts are growing about a plan to issue US$200 million of bond notes described by President Robert Mugabe as a 'surrogate currency'...
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Of the EU states Britain is significantly now seen as the most supportive of the government's reform gestures: a sharp change from its former status as leading the charge against President Robert Mugabe and ZANU-PF...
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Mnangagwa's network is also under attack as senior ZANU-PF members eliminate any resistance to First Lady Grace Mugabe even though no major leaders have any confidence in her political skills let alone her ability to lead the party in the absence of her husband President Robert Mugabe...
Mugabe reins in the Grace faction President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe née Marufu is agitating with the Generation 40 (G40) faction for a final push against Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his supporters...
' However Robert Mugabe has appointed Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa a Mnangagwa ally to head a reconstituted Disciplinary Committee...
Mangudya's decision could not have been taken without support from President Robert Mugabe's cabinet but that doesn't mean there isn't pushback...
This could be a major sticking point because the prestige of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front and President Robert Mugabe himself is tied up in the land reform despite its lack of success...
The new party currently consists of ZANU-PF heavyweights the majority of whom fell in a purge instigated by President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe who accused Mujuru of plotting to topple her husband from power unconstitutionally...
President Robert Mugabe has come unstuck in his plans to circulate the Chinese currency the yuan in Zimbabwe...