All those charged so far are Mugabe loyalists or members of Grace Mugabe's G40 clique who resisted Mnangagwa's rise – the former Minister of Higher Education Jonathan Moyo former Minister of Home Affairs Ignatius Chombo Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front spokesman Psychology Maziwisa and former Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhosini Hlongwane (AC Vol 58 No 25 A martial mind-set)...
In the last weeks of 2017 senior ZANU-PF figures including Walter Chidhakwa former Minister of Mines and Ignatius Chombo former Finance Minister were arrested and charged with corruption...
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Mnangagwa's appointment of Patrick Chinamasa as interim Finance Minister to replace Ignatius Chombo now in detention on corruption charges after $10 million was found in his house points to urgent efforts to raise foreign funds...
Finance Minister Ignatius Chombo announces that Zimbabwe's budget deficit is to hit US$1...
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Home Affairs Minister Ignatius Chombo has warned that Tsvangirai and his Movement for Democratic Change would 'have themselves to blame' if the demonstrations got out of control...
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Party Administrator Ignatius Chombo says he received over a dozen appeals...
Mnangagwa would then be asked to step down to become National Chairman or Secretary for Administration a position currently held by Ignatius Chombo Minister of Home Affairs...
Said to be working with Grace on the project are top officials Ignatius Chombo ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration and Minister of Home Affairs; Saviour Kasukuwere Secretary for the Commissariat and Minister of Local Government and National Housing; and Sydney Sekeramayi the party Secretary for War Veterans' Affairs and Defence Minister...
Kasukuwere is believed to have differences with Mnangagwa but replaces the former Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo promoted to Home Affairs...
These developments pitted Ignatius Chombo the party's Secretary for Administration and the First Lady against Kasukuwere who was backed by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and Simon Khaya Moyo...
