All those charged so far are Mugabe loyalists or members of Grace Mugabe's G40 clique who resisted Mnangagwa's rise – the former Minister of Higher Education Jonathan Moyo former Minister of Home Affairs Ignatius Chombo Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front spokesman Psychology Maziwisa and former Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhosini Hlongwane (AC Vol 58 No 25 A martial mind-set)...
Walter Chidhakwa a former Mines Minister is related to Grace Mugabe...
There have been a number of land conflicts and violent evictions since Mnangagwa's inauguration many driven by competition between the two main factions in the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front: the G40 which backed Grace Mugabe and the 'Lacoste' group which backs Mnangagwa (AC Vol 58 No 25 A martial mind-set)...
It now dominates the intelligence agencies and the police both of which are being purged for residual loyalists to the G40 faction led by former First Lady Grace Mugabe and Jonathan Moyo and Saviour Kasukuwere...
His wife Monica Mutsvangwa was announced as the new national secretary of the party's Women's League replacing Grace Mugabe who has been expelled from the ruling party...
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Chiwenga's message was that a planned purge of the armed forces by the G40 faction of the ruling party which has supported Grace Mugabe would destabilise the country and threaten China's interests...
Grace Mugabe calls Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa a 'coup plotter' and a 'coward'...
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One of Mnangagwa's support bases the once-powerful war veterans made a point of turning up to jeer whenever First Lady Grace Mugabe gave a speech...
That view wasn't shared by Grace Mugabe and increasingly her husband...
This could be a prelude to Grace Mugabe replacing Mnangagwa as Vice-President...
G-40 has no obvious candidate to succeed Mugabe although his wife Grace Mugabe 51 was previously seen as part of the cabal...
Dinha is a close confidant of Grace Mugabe and as provincial Lands Officer had helped her to secure large tracts of land in the province that she now occupies...
The member of parliament for Harare South Shadreck Mashayamombe may be expelled from the party we hear with the suggestion that Grace Mugabe take his seat with a view to the possibility of taking ministerial office...
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Tagwirei is also in several business relationships with Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe and his children...
His is not the only major faction in ZANU-PF but since the other that of presidential wife Grace Mugabe is entirely dependent on her husband's prestige nobody believes it has a long-term future...
Grace Mugabe is head of the ZANU-PF Women's League and can call on the loyalty of the G-40 faction which has much to lose from a Mnangagwa presidency...
The land was taken by presidential wife Grace Mugabe in order to expand a multi-million-dollar orphanage and boarding school she had built at Iron Mask Farm on land expropriated from John and Eva Matthews in 2002...
