If the leaked audio recording of his telephone call with ruling party acolyte Temba Mliswa is any guide businessman Kudakwashe Tagwirei's role in government is stronger than ever despite the United States' imposition of sanctions against him and serial exposés of his politically connected deals (AC Vol 61 No 5 Oil guns and politics)...
He also invited a number of leading regional and national allies to the congress including the Ugandan opposition firebrand Robert Kyagulanyi (aka Bobi Wine) Chief Ndiweni and the former ZANU-PF activist Temba Mliswa...
The new government's selective engagement with corruption is highlighted in a probe by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Mines and Energy led by Temba Mliswa into the 'missing $15 billion' in revenue from Zimbabwe's diamond mines (AC Vol 58 No 21 Mystery of the missing mine profits)...
Those activists who were originally in ZANU-PF will be absorbed without trace back into the party following the example of Acie Lumumba who posted a photograph of himself with Mnangagwa days after the military takeover and Temba Mliswa who attended the ZANU-PF congress dressed in the party's regalia in spite of his position as an independent MP...
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Mujuru's other ally Temba Mliswa in Hurungwe has claimed that harassment and imprisonment by the Central Intelligence Organisation and pressure on local chiefs has brought open campaigning to an end...
Her first rally in Mashonaland West was accompanied by a botched attempt to deprive provincial Chairman Temba Mliswa an ally of Mujuru of his post (AC Vol 55 No 17 Women and children first)...
Current political allegiances have been weakened as in the case of Mashonaland West Chairman Temba Mliswa a young Turk thought loyal to Mujuru who helped mastermind the surprise coup...
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On 30 November Zimbabwe Economic and Empowerment Council President Temba Mliswa called for Zimbabweans to take over shares in Chinese firms especially in those in the agriculture sector...
The only drama came on the second day when a former rugby international fitness fanatic and empowerment activist Temba Mliswa grabbed and ran off with a Copac video camera (AC Vol 51 No 15 What mattered was the football)...
This idyll was broken by the Temba Mliswa tsunami which threatened to engulf leading figures in both the dominant Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) and the MDC...