Vol 55 No 4 |
- ZIMBABWE
- CHINA
Gono who leans towards Vice-President Joice Mujuru was in line to fill a Senate vacancy in Manicaland (with talk of a cabinet post to follow) but his name has still to go forward formally to the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission...
An opportunity to reverse this policy was deliberately missed after November's provincial party elections saw the allies of Vice-President Joice Mujuru sweep the board...
The outcomes in the November provincial internal ZANU-PF elections indicated that Vice-President Joice Mujuru's allies had swept up all but one of the ten provinces...
In what may have been a warning shot to Vice-President Joice Mujuru Mugabe muddied the issues with a typical obfuscation saying that it was the Central Committee (where Mujuru is weaker) not the Politburo that represented the party between congresses...
Mashonaland Central and East would have gone to Vice-President Joice Mujuru's supporters...
ZANU-PF figures linked to the trade include the new Water Affairs Minister Saviour Kasukuwere the former Defence and now Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and Vice-President Joice Mujuru...
Conscious of growing pressure over the succession Mugabe has tried to balance ministerial patronage between the factions led by former Defence Minister and now Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and that led by Vice-President Joice Mujuru...
Joice Mujuru is set to remain the sole Vice-President until the special party congress now scheduled for the year's end...
At the last two meetings Vice-President Joice Mujuru and her faction have lashed out...
Another indicator was that the highest turnout was in the bailiwicks of the two faction leaders: Mnangagwa in the Midlands where his wife Auxcilia garnered 19 000 to win the Kwekwe Central nomination and Vice-President Joice Mujuru in Mashonaland Central where several of her loyalists polled well over 10 000 votes...
A week ago the old ruling party had looked set to descend into factional chaos; now there seems to be a self-interested truce between reformers backing Vice-President Joice Mujuru and hardliners backing Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa...
