The leading Zezuru candidate for the succession Defence Minister Sidney Sekeramayi lacks both Mnangagwa's steel and his support network...
The Defence Ministry now under former Security Minister Sidney Sekeramayi has already redistributed members of the 6th Brigade an infantry formation that was never properly constituted...
His group is supported by several senior provincial politicians and politburo members including Zvobgo former Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa and former Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi...
Sidney Sekeramayi: ZANU Secretary for Security; restructured the Central Intelligence Organisation; director ZIDCO Holdings...
Sidney Sekeramayi the Energy Minister and a former Security Minister told journalists he knew nothing about the negotiations with Sudan...
Oppah Muchinguri moved from Health to Gender and Culture while Sydney Sekeramayi (a doctor) took Health...
At present the Politbureau is dominated by Mugabe's lieutenants from the liberation struggle of the 1970s: Robert Mugabe (President and First Secretary) Simon Muzenda (Second Secretary and Vice- President) Joseph Msika (Second Secretary and Vice-President) John Nkomo (Chairman) Didymus Mutasa (Administration) Emmerson Mnangagwa (Finance) Moven Mahachi (Commissariat and Culture) Stephen Nkomo (External Affairs) Sydney Sekeramayi (Security) Nathan Shamuyarira (Information and Publicity) Welshman Mabhena (Transport and Welfare) Tenjiwe Lesabe (Women's Affairs) Josiah Tungamirai (Youth) Naison Ndlovu (Economic Affairs) Eddison Zvobgo (Legal) Joyce Mujuru (Education) Oppah Rushesha Muchinguri (Health) Vacant (Production and Labour)...
Sydney's security move Sydney Sekeramayi probably third in line to succeed Mugabe is now Mines and Energy Minister after twelve years at State Security...
ZANU-PF is now factionalised along regional-ethnic lines (between the Shona sub-groups the Karanga and the Ndebele) and along ideological lines between hardliners close to the military (such as Mugabe Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa Lieutenant General Vitalis Zvinavashe) and reformers (Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi Local Government Minister John Nkomo Home Affairs Minister Dabengwa)...
The more likely candidates to succeed Mugabe - Local Government Minister John Nkomo Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa and Security Minister Sydney Sekeramayi - maintained a discreet distance as the referendum campaign degenerated into farce...
