Dumiso Dabengwa

Dumiso Dabengwa has resuscitated ZAPU and if it can cobble together a coalition with the MDC ZANU-PF is likely to lose all but a handful of the Matebeleland seats it won on a split opposition vote in 2008...

Dumiso Dabengwa former head of its armed wing the Zimbabwe People’s Revolutionary Army has finally been confirmed as leader of the revived Patriotic Front-ZAPU at a congress in Bulawayo attended by 5 000 delegates...

If Ncube then picked Gibson Sibanda as his deputy it would align the MDC-M with its Ndebele grassroots but damage its national ambitions by forcing it to compete for the same voters as Dumiso Dabengwa's ZAPU (AC Vol 51 No 10)...

We hear Mujuru has sold his shares in River Ranch but has a direct or indirect stake in ACR into which he has invited his key ally Dumiso Dabengwa who had left ZANU-PF for the new Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn party led by former Finance Minister Simba Makoni...

Dumiso Dabengwa’s Zimbabwe African People’s Union (ZAPU) is expected to siphon off MDC-M support in Matebeleland; only Coltart has a good chance of winning thanks to a personal following in Bulawayo...

Had Dumiso Dabengwa still been in the party the position would have been his...

If one of the two major factions were to back him that would open the possibility of Matebeleland losing another key post which would play into the hands of Dumiso Dabengwa and his resurging PF-ZAPU...

Thenjiwe Lesabe resigned from the Politburo last month to return to Bulawayo and help Dumiso Dabengwa rebuild the Patriotic Front Zimbabwe African People's Union in Matebeleland...

Yet Dumiso Dabengwa left ZANU-PF last year and has relaunched the old Zimbabwe African People's Union...

On top of that Dumiso Dabengwa's recently relaunched Patriotic Front-Zimbabwe African People's Union (PF-ZAPU usually known as ZAPU) could enter the fray and transform politics in Matebeleland...