Centre stage alongside Gono are retired army commander Solomon Mujuru Joyce's husband and former Intelligence and Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa...
In the 2004 vice-presidential race winner Joyce Mujuru took six provinces while her main rival former security chief Emmerson Mnangagwa won four...
Still his failure to mention any favourites hasn't damped the expectations of Joyce ‘Spill Blood’ Mujuru ably supported by her military husband retired General Solomon Mujuru who hopes to pip hardman Emmerson Mnangagwa ZANU-PF’s Legal Affairs Secretary to the top post...
Emmerson Mnangagwa another would-be president threatens to sue Nkomo over his allegation that Mnangagwa paid huge sums to the organisers of the plotters' meeting at Tsholotsho (AC Vol 45 No 6)...
Another corruption investigation into the near-bankrupt Zimbabwe Iron & Steel Company (ZISCO) initially targeted the Mujurus' great rival for the presidential succession Emmerson Mnangagwa who was managing ZANU-PF finances and its links to funds misappropriated from ZISCO...
However his promises of support for factions - Joyce Mujuru's Emmerson Mnangagwa's or the Matebeleland group - consume huge amounts of political energy and divert party cadres from the worsening political and economic crises...
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...
Both Solomon Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa are wealthy businessmen and tough on security issues...
Emmerson Mnangagwa is resilient...
Mujuru distrusts Emmerson Mnangagwa who stopped him taking over the former Union Carbide operations in Kwekwe when the company sold out...
Vol 47 No 17 |
- ZIMBABWE
- ECONOMY
The governor's presidential ambitions Emmerson Mnangagwa the heir-apparent until the Mujurus scuttled his plan is working quietly through proxies against the Mujurus...
Bredenkamp had been extremely close to former Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa who was regarded as President Robert Mugabe's heir apparent until he was trounced in a power struggle with General Solomon Mujuru whose wife Joyce emerged as Vice-President in December 2004...
Moyo's UPM is widely considered to be surviving only on the goodwill of Emmerson Mnangagwa who is not willing to abandon ZANU-PF...
Now the Mujuru couple must fight both Mutambara and Emmerson Mnangagwa who is lying low but remains a contender for the succession...
