Other ZANU-PF barons named as backing Makoni include Matebeleland's Dumiso Dabengwa who has openly clashed with Mugabe in recent months Joseph Msika and John Nkomo known as 'Prime Minister' in the government hierarchy...
ZANU-PF's top three in Matebeleland - Dumiso Dabengwa John Nkomo and Joseph Msika - backed her in 2004 solely to thwart Mnangagwa...
Vol 47 No 17 |
- ZIMBABWE
- ECONOMY
Economic policies are concocted between the two men without any reference to Vice Presidents Joyce Mujuru and Joseph Msika let alone Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa...
The fight was about the succession to Vice-President Joseph Msika the highest-ranking former ZAPU member in government...
The incumbent Joseph Msika was rushed to a Cape Town Hospital last month...
Vice-Presidents Joseph Msika and Joyce Mujuru - both big landowners themselves - have signalled that the war on white farmers is over...
Two weeks before the vote Vice-President Joseph Msika talked of improving collaboration between white and new black farmers...
The appointment of Mujuru as Vice-President alongside Joseph Msika has concentrated power in the Zezuru; Mujuru and Msika both come from Chiweshe...
That could not be Joseph Msika...
Mujuru's nomination backed by Mugabe was a triumph for ZANU-PF's old guard including Mujuru's husband General Solomon Mujuru and two stalwarts from the old mainly Ndebele ZAPU faction Joseph Msika and John Nkomo...
