Minister of Local Government July Moyo has declined to answer questions about the matter...
This competition is between two senior cabinet and politburo members July Moyo and Joram Gumbo who back the rival contenders...
Meanwhile July Moyo remains Minister of Local Government proving the strength of his relationship with Mnangagwa...
However July Moyo insisted that the councillors who won their seats in urban opposition strongholds must wait must wait three weeks (from victory on 3 August to inauguration on 26 August) a completely unconstitutional move...
Nor was it legal for July Moyo to appoint the caretaker commissions he put in place because at the time the government had already been dissolved in preparation for the election...
The Harare commentariat believes that Mnangagwa and Moyo have a new plot furthered (says The Zimbabwean on Sunday) at a Christmas Day meeting hosted by former Midlands Province Chairman July Moyo on a farm near Gweru capital of Mnangagwa’s Midlands...
So far the confirmed guests are Mnangagwa Jonathan Moyo July Moyo (disciplined along with Jonathan Moyo after Tsholotsho) ex-Manicaland party Chairman Mike Madiro and former Deputy Lands Minister Florence Bhuka...
The suspended chairmen then aligned to Mnangagwa – Mike Madiro (Manicaland) Themba Ncube (Bulawayo) Jacob Mudenda (Matebeleland North) July Moyo (Midlands) Lloyd Siyoka (Matebeleland South) and Daniel Shumba (Masvingo) – have had their punishments rescinded...
This year will see the eclipse (for the time being anyway) of 'modernising' ZANU-PF politicians like Patrick Chinamasa July Moyo Philip Chiyangwa and Joseph Chinotimba...
Three are from Mashonaland: Daniel Shumba of Masvingo Mike Madiro of Manicaland and July Moyo of the Midlands who is also Minister of Mines...
Already the Mashonaland Central party Chairman Chen Chimutengwende has publicly backed Mujuru but Mashonaland West party Chairman and former Mnangagwa-ally Philip Chiyangwa has been more taciturn about his preferences as has July Moyo the party Chairman for Midlands Mnangagwa's own province...
Yet his anti-graft campaign has presided over the arrest or attempted arrest of an impressive range of operators: from Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo members James Makamba and party stalwarts Philip Chiyangwa and July Moyo to one of Zimbabwe's most successful businessmen Matumwa Mawere (still at liberty in South Africa despite Harare's efforts to extradite him)...
Mnangagwa's allies many of whom worked for him in the CIO have tightened their grip on ZANU's provincial organisation through the Manicaland provincial Chairman Mark Madiro; Mashonaland East Chairman Ray Kaukonde; and Midlands Chairman July Moyo a relative of Mnangagwa's...
