Mnangagwa also removed the former Secretary for Science and Technology Obert Mpofu a powerful figure with extensive business interests in Matabeleland and a key organiser of ZANU-PF structures there...
To placate Chiwenga Mnangagwa promised to form a committee to investigate the allegations comprising Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu Party Chair and Defence Minister Oppah Muchinguri and Chinamasa...
Then on Tuesday 23 September Mutsvangwa announced that Obert Mpofu would be demoted from Secretary General of ZANU-PF to Secretary for ICT...
Shortly afterwards Secretary-General Obert Mpofu issued a letter instructing members to surrender any donated vehicles to the party for registration and regularisation...
Others favoured by the Mnangagwa faction in the short term include party loyalists such as: July Moyo the Minister of Energy and Power; Oppah Muchinguri the National Chair of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF); and Obert Mpofu the Secretary-General of ZANU-PF (see Box Security rules when Mnangagwa replaces deputy Mohadi)...
Obert Mpofu 74 ZANU-PF Secretary-General is a long-standing politician and businessman with extensive personal interests in the mining sector...
Former Finance Minister and Justice Minister Patrick Chinamasa is back in the Central Committee as is former Mines Minister Obert Mpofu...
ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration Obert Mpofu claims the High Court has no jurisdiction to try Mnangagwa while he is the sitting president...
Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) co-deputy Director-General Gatsha Mazithulela Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) secretary for administration Obert Mpofu and Matabeleland North minister of state Richard Moyo are thought to be behind the seizure of a farm belonging to human rights lawyer Siphosami Malunga and his business partners Zephaniah Dhlamini and Charles Moyo...
ZANU-PF also through Sakunda imported very slightly less grand Toyota Land Cruiser VX 200 models worth $5m for former ministers who had been redeployed to the ruling party including: Patrick Chinamasa Obert Mpofu Sydney Sekeremayi David Parirenyatwa Christopher Mushowe Simon Khaya-Moyo Simbarashe Mumbengegwi and Mike Bimha...
Sources in the province say he was thwarted by Obert Mpofu the ZANU-PF Secretary for Administration who is also powerful in Matabeleland North...
Obert Mpofu a veteran minister under Robert Mugabe who was shuffled out of cabinet along with other older factionalists to make room for the new 'technocrats' such as Ncube took advantage of the disgruntlement to criticise the finance minister for not seeking the party's permission...
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