Munzverengwi rose to prominence after the coup when she was appointed minister of the turbulent Mashonaland East dominated by Vice-President Joice Mujuru's G40 faction loyalists...
Former Deputy Presidents under Robert Mugabe Joice Mujuru and Phelekezela Mphoko attended as did former first lady Grace Mugabe and her family...
The re-establishment of District Coordinating Committees dismantled in 2012 when ZANU-PF was trying to contain the rise of Joice Mujuru's faction has increased turbulence in party structures...
Joice Mujuru the sacked former Vice-President in 2016 reached out to Guy Watson-Smith the former owner of a property her family expropriated during her time in government to negotiate compensation (AC Vol 57 No 22 Getting ready for trouble)...
Tongai Muzenda chair of the MMCZ was originally suspended from ZANU-PF for being allied to former Vice-President Joice Mujuru and was later considered a threat to Mnangagwa's faction in Masvingo province...
Former ZANU-PF politicians such as Joice Mujuru Ambrose Mutinhiri and Daniel Shumba will be reabsorbed into the party or fade into obscurity while opportunistic businessmen such as Noah Manyika and Nkosana Moyo will return to their diaspora lives...
Many other opposition candidates such as former Vice-President Joice Mujuru and former Trade Minister Nkosazana Moyo have declined to join the MDC under Chamisa's leadership...
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The first independent opinion poll published by Afrobarometer on 7 June found that 42% of respondents would vote for the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) 30% for the Movement for Democratic Change-T 1% for MDC-T alliance partners 1% for other parties such as Joice Mujuru's National People's Party while 19% refused to answer and 7% hadn't decided...
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Although he sits in Parliament as an independent MP having been expelled from ZANU-PF in 2015 for supporting former Vice-President Joice Mujuru in an intra-party power struggle Mliswa is close to Mnangagwa and the investigation is being carried out in a way that protects the President and the military elite who surround him...
All three opposition alliances – as well as Tsvangirai's MDC Alliance there's one under former ZANU-PF Vice-President Joice Mujuru and another formed by ex-MDC activist Elton Mangoma – are talking up their chances of defeating the ruling party next August...
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