Mujuru was recalled from Coventry where he had languished for months due to his treacherous association with party dissidents Simba Makoni and Dumiso Dabengwa...
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...
Mujuru had lost ground through his links to the party split that saw Simba Makoni defect just before the 29 March elections...
Chiwenga Zimondi and Bonyongwe are reported to have switched sides after Mugabe's poor performance in March when third candidate Simba Makoni failed with only 8% of the vote...
Dabengwa has not yet been expelled from the party (as Simba Makoni was) but no longer attends the regular Thursday Politburo meetings perhaps because he feels it pointless or dangerous to enter the lion’s den or is simply not invited...
The losing independent candidate in the first round Simba Makoni is also pushing for a transitional government...
Manicaland produced the most dramatic reversal; Tsvangirai Mutambara and Simba Makoni the third presidential candidate all hail from the province...
ZANU-PF's moderates quietly hope for a caretaker government like that proposed by Simba Makoni (see below)...
Simba Makoni the independent defector from ZANU-PF came a distant third with 207 470 (8...
' 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'...
THE MAKONI FACTION: Ex-Finance Minister Simba Makoni joined forces with MDC-Mutambara to contest for the presidency but now wants to launch his own party...
Zimbabwe Defence Force (ZDF) Commander General Constantine Chiwenga Air Force Commander Air Vice Marshal Perence Shiri and the Police Commissioner General Augustine Chihuri had publicly pledged allegiance to Mugabe as the sole leader of Zimbabwe insisting they (and by implication the entire armed forces and security services) would not take orders from either of the opposition candidates in the presidential elections Morgan Tsvangirai or Simba Makoni should either be announced a winner of the presidential elections...
