Joice Mujuru (Teurai Ropa 'Spill blood')

There is much talk in Harare that Vice-President Joyce Mujuru is determined to seek the ZANU-PF nomination especially since Mugabe's coded reprimand of her and her husband Solomon last month...

Mugabe has fallen out with his chosen Vice-President Joyce Mujuru...

' In an interview for his 83rd birthday in February the President openly talked of his fallout with Joyce Mujuru...

Mugabe must leave Teurai Ropa [Joyce Mujuru's nom-de-guerre] alone...

Mugabe must leave Teurai Ropa [Joyce Mujuru's nom-de-guerre] alone...

The faction lines are clearly drawn in ZANU-PF with tough talk from the Mugabe Emmerson Mnangagwa and Joyce Mujuru camps...

The faction led by Mnangagwa who lost out to Joyce Mujuru for the vice-presidential promotion remains formidable...

Undenge is one of Mugabe's faithful while Mutinhiri supports Vice-President Joyce Mujuru...

Kupikile's chiefs are the retired General Solomon Mujuru - former army chief and husband of Vice-President Joyce Mujuru - and Tirivanhu Mudariki a businessman who is also a politician in the ruling party...

In the 2004 vice-presidential race winner Joyce Mujuru took six provinces while her main rival former security chief Emmerson Mnangagwa won four...

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...

Police sources in Harare report that detectives are investigating retired General Solomon Mujuru husband of Vice-President Joyce Mujuru and erstwhile ally of President Robert Mugabe for breaking foreign exchange regulations...

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...

Mugabe catapulted his friend Joyce Mujuru into the second vice-presidency in 2000 more to stifle Mnangagwa's ambitions than to further her own...

Joyce Mujuru remains a leading candidate whether or not she is fully supported by her semi-estranged husband Solomon or by Mugabe...

Muchinguri nominated and lobbied for Joyce Mujuru for the Vice-President position and now she is Solomon Mujuru's key person in Manicaland because she runs the ZANU-PF Women's League - a key election tool...

Economic policies are concocted between the two men without any reference to Vice Presidents Joyce Mujuru and Joseph Msika let alone Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa...