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ZANU-PF succession fight goes public as schisms deepen

Vice-President Chiwenga accuses President Mnangagwa’s allies of looting US$3.2 billion from party coffers and demands arrests

The annual conference of the Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front’s (ZANU-PF), which veers between sycophantic theatre and high-stakes factional drama, is set to host a fiery confrontation when this year’s meeting opens on 13 October. At a politburo meeting on 17 September, Vice-President Constantino Chiwenga, the party’s Second Secretary, presented a dossier charging the closest allies of President Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa with grand corruption. And it accused Mnangagwa of collusion, a charge he is yet to answer publicly.

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