After the fire burned down the conference hall and another building at the offices of the SAPES Trust run by Ibbo Mandaza police and soldiers cordoned off the compound and blocked any further meetings on the premises...
Ibbo Mandaza a political commentator and founder of the Southern Africa Political Economy Series (SAPES) Trust a respected Harare-based think-tank and Tony Reeler director of the Research Advocacy Unit (RAU) a Zimbabwean NGO have launched a petition calling for a political settlement...
Ibbo Mandaza lawyer Brian Kagoro and other leading academics and civic activists are leading calls for such an authority to be established to forestall the worsening financial crisis...
Mashonaland Central Governor Ephraim Masawi who has ties with Ibbo Mandaza and is related to Mujuru’s wife Joyce and Tinaye Chigudu a Mujuru foot soldier in Manicaland have been replaced by Christopher Mushowe and advocate Martin Dinha respectively...
SADC leaders heard a proposal by Ibbo Mandaza an ally of third presidential candidate Simba Makoni for a Tsvangirai presidency with Dumiso Dabengwa and Joyce Mujuru as vice-presidents and with the Mugabe stalwarts Didymus Mutasa (State Security) Kembo Mohadi (Home Affairs) and Sidney Sekeramayi (Defence) retaining their posts...
Makoni and Ibbotson Mandaza are old associates of Mujuru who has not given up his quest for power...
' Former ZANU-PF Finance Minister Simba Makoni is disappointed by his results and his Director of Communications Ibbo Mandaza says he will play only a 'facilitatory role'...
Makoni’s key allies include Godfrey Chanetsa a former spokesman for ZANU-PF and Ibbo Mandaza a publisher and political activist...
In Mashonaland Central two heavyweights lost: Makoni's election strategist Ibbo Mandaza and ZANU-PF's Chen Chimutengwende the Minister of Interactive Affairs...
Courting journalists in the Harare offices of his publisher ally Ibbo Mandaza Makoni is in the very optimistic camp...
Leading the cause is Ibbo Mandaza a ZANU-PF loyalist until now and MDC bête noire...