Candidates' nomination was chaotic and held up by spurious legal challenges such as a bid to exclude CCC candidates in all 12 of Bulawayo's constituencies and the successful barring of presidential candidate Saviour Kasukuwere the former ZANU-PF Commissar and a linchpin of the G40 campaign against Mnangagwa's rise to power...
Opposition spirits were lifted when former Minister and ZANU-PF Commissar Saviour Kasukuwere announced he would run against Mnangagwa for the presidency...
Three of the leading lights from the Grace Mugabe era are now in exile: G40 leader Saviour Kasukuwere; former party spin-doctor Jonathan Moyo; and ex-foreign minister Walter Mzembi...
ZANU-PF Harare Chairman Goodwills Masimirembwa claims Musengezi was 'planted' in the provincial structures by exiled leader of the ZANU-PF G40 faction Saviour Kasukuwere who denies it...
Mliswa who remains close to the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front despite his formal status as an Independent MP refers to frustration about the government from politicians such as former Finance Minister Patrick Chinamasa and former Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere who is in exile in South Africa...
These appear to be teething troubles and with the official candidate lists being printed this week there is increasing cohesion within the alliance and increasing support for it including from Jonathan Moyo and Patrick Zhuwao allies of former ZANU-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere in the plot that led to the sacking of Mnangagwa as Mugabe's Vice-President last November (AC Vol 58 No 23 Mugabe drops the crocodile)...
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...
G40 lynchpins such as Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo and Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere were said to be under arrest late on 15 November but they both appear on a wanted list issued by the military...
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G-40 is managed by the long-time propaganda supremo and current Higher Education Minister Professor Jonathan Moyo and the Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere...
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The most prominent members of G40 are Higher Education Minister Jonathan Moyo Local Government and National Housing Minister Saviour Kasukuwere Youth Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment Minister and presidential nephew Patrick Zhuwao and the other Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko...
