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with Ibbo Mandaza and is related to Mujuru’s wife  Joyce  and Tinaye Chigudu  a Mujuru foot soldier in Manicaland  have been replaced by Christopher Mushowe and advocate Martin Dinha respectively...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...