ZANU-PF's former spin-doctor Jonathan Moyo claims Z$200 million (US$800 000) for defamation alleging that Nkomo (along with another party bigwig Dumiso Dabengwa) had accused him of masterminding in 2004 an abortive 'smart coup' which aimed to push Vice-President Joyce Mujuru out of the succession race...
None of the mooted candidates - Vice-President Joyce Mujuru Emmerson Mnangagwa Reserve Bank Governor Gideon Gono or Dumiso Dabengwa - have convinced Zimbabweans that they could tackle the crisis...
ZANU-PF's top three in Matebeleland - Dumiso Dabengwa John Nkomo and Joseph Msika - backed her in 2004 solely to thwart Mnangagwa...
< Top trio Mnangagwa is bitterly opposed in the Matebeleland provinces where Dumiso Dabengwa rules supreme...
Early this year Msika agreed with his ZAPU colleagues national Chairman John Nkomo and former Home Affairs Minister Dumiso Dabengwa that Nkomo should take the vice-presidency with Dabengwa as ZANU Chairman...
There is a keen battle for the vice-presidential slot especially between the rival Matebeleland leaders Dumiso Dabengwa and John Nkomo protégés of the late Joshua Nkomo who now follow Mugabe...
Mugabe's ZANU-PF contains the rump of the former mainly Ndebele Zimbabwe African People's Union now led by Dumiso Dabengwa (who lost in the Senate elections)...
They claim backing from the former Zimbabwe People's Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) intelligence supremo Dumiso Dabengwa who has been given a free hand by Mugabe to restructure ZANU-PF in Bulawayo...
It would have to be John Nkomo or Dumiso Dabengwa - but Nkomo's rise depends on Mugabe's approval...
Some electorally minded Young Turks argue that by kicking out Moyo and Sibanda and dragging back rejected provincial leaders such as Dumiso Dabengwa Sikhanyiso Ndlovu and Edson Ncube ZANU-PF could have lost Matebeleland which for two decades decisively rejected Mugabe...
Mandaza accused former Interior Minister Dumiso Dabengwa and Matebeleland Governor Mpofu of running a politically and ethnically motivated smear campaign against him...
Ndebele contenders such as Dumiso Dabengwa and John Nkomo have been ruled out by ZANU's hierarchy...
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...
