One is the MDC's impeachment motion in parliament now under consideration by a committee set up under house rules by parliamentary speaker Emmerson Mnangagwa...
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)...
The closest to a military candidate is parliamentary Speaker and former intelligence chief Emmerson Mnangagwa who was the prime mover behind the military intervention to support President Laurent-Désiré Kabila in Congo-Kinshasa...
Vol 41 No 20 |
- CONGO-KINSHASA
ZIMABABWE: Harare's economic crisis is forcing a rethink of Congo policy and Emmerson Mnangagwa the key diplomatic and financial strategist on Congo has told Africa Confidential that he has nothing to do with Congo any more...
Both men along with former Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa have taken a close interest in Avient's operations...
Real multi-party politics started raucously in Harare's parliament on 18 July with both sides breaking into song after the election of former Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa as Speaker of the House...
He will have to appoint at least three from Matebeleland to make the ZANU-PF caucus look more representative; he will have to bring in at least three or four women as all but one of ZANU-PF 's female candidates lost; and then he will have to reinstate some of his key ministers who also lost their seats such as former Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa Employment Creation Minister Thenjiwe Lesabe and Deputy Education Minister Sikhanyiso Ndolovu...
Most of the ZANU-PF old guard are staying on - ministers who lost their seats such as Emmerson Mnangagwa and Dumiso Dabengwa are likely to come back as nominated MPs...
Zvinavashe Justice Minister Emmerson Dambudzo Mnangagwa and Defence Minister Moven Mahachi...
It's bad news for Rautenbach who left Congo for Harare on 28 March and his backers in the Zimbabwe government such as Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa (AC Vol 41 No 6)...
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)...
