‘President Ian Khama To Take Over (SADC) Chair Post , When Mugabe’s Term Ends Next Week’

‘President Ian Khama To Take Over  (SADC) Chair Post , When Mugabe’s Term Ends Next Week’

BOTSWANA President Ian Khama is set to become the next Southern African Development Community (SADC) chair when President Robert Mugabe vacates the position next week, reports said. Mugabe is expected to hand over the one-year chairmanship to Khama at the 35th summit of heads of state and government to be held in Gaborone. The move is viewed by analysts as giving the bloc some long-sought teeth to reject dictatorship, rights abuses and electoral fraud in…

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‘Higher &Tertiary Education Minister Moyo Blasts Zimpapers On Tweeter For Firing 109 Employees’ ?..??

HIGHER and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo Saturday defied President Robert Mugabe’s call for his lieutenants not to use the internet to castigate each other. Mugabe in his address to the Zanu PF Central Committee Wednesday ordered his comrades off social media. Said the veteran leader: “If you want to depend on the Internet for your own direction then you are being wrong-minded. “Let us also not undermine each other.” But Moyo used his Twitter…

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After Treason Charges Acquittal, Edmund Kudzayi, ‘Baba Jukwa’ Is Replaced As Sunday Mail Editor.

After Treason Charges Acquittal, Edmund Kudzayi,  ‘Baba Jukwa’ Is Replaced As Sunday Mail Editor.

ABOUT two months after he was acquitted on treason charges, Edmund Kudzayi, has been replaced as Sunday Mail editor. Kudzayi was thought to be the subject of President Robert Mugabe rant when he savaged then information minister Jonathan Moyo in June last year, accusing him of firing loyalist editors and replacing them with individuals who had no history with the ruling party. On Tuesday, Kudzayi did not even merit mention in the Herald report which…

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1976, Moyo, Joined Zanu PF , As Its California Representative, Thus complicit in Gukurahundi

I have had an interesting twitter exchange with Jonathan Moyo this morning. It started when someone asked whether we agreed on anything. I responded by saying that we agreed on a lot prior to him “joining ZANU PF in 1999”. Moyo responded by agreeing with another 3rd party tweet that he in fact joined ZANU PF in 1976 when he was its representative in California. I responded saying – “fair enough” and then questioned whether…

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Mugabe Branded Him “Devil Incarnate” Last Year, Appoints Moyo Into Cabinet

Mugabe Branded Him “Devil Incarnate” Last Year, Appoints Moyo Into Cabinet

PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe on Monday moved his information minister, who he branded a “devil incarnate” last year, to an education department role in his second cabinet reshuffle since December. Former Minister of Information Jonathan Moyo, whom Mugabe says appointed opposition sympathisers as editors of state-owned newspapers, is now minister of higher and tertiary education, the secretary to the president and cabinet, told reporters. Mugabe last year complained bitterly about Moyo’s activities in the party and…

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‘Saviour Kasukuwere Faces Arrest As Zanu-PF Hawks Feel Threatened By Him’

‘Saviour Kasukuwere Faces Arrest As Zanu-PF Hawks  Feel Threatened By Him’

It is understood that Mayor Justice Wadyajena, the chairman of the Parliamentary Porfolio Committee on Youth, Indigenisation and Economic Empowerment is under pressure from Zanu-PF hawks that feel threatened by Saviour Kasukuwere.According to sources they want him investigated for his role in the Community Share Ownership Scheme with a view of causing his arrest.The committee has since asked Kasukuwere to appear before them and answer questions on how the Marange-Zimunya Community Share Ownership Scheme was…

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Mphoko, ally ‘Frederick Mutanda plotting to assasinate Mnangagwa’ claims Energy Mutodi

Mphoko, ally  ‘Frederick Mutanda plotting to assasinate Mnangagwa’ claims Energy Mutodi

Energy Mutodi has drawn criticism after posting on Facebook that VP Emmerson Mnangagwa was a target for assassination by Frederick Mutanda, a close ally to VP Phelekezela Mphoko. Mutodi claims that Mutanda has since last year been plotting to assassinate Mnangagwa. Mutodi also said the alleged plot was as a result of the succession issue as well as Gukurahundi. Read Energy Mutodi’s full facebook post below. VP EMMERSON MNANGAGWA TARGETED FOR ASSASSINATION A close ally…

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‘Mugabe’s invite to politburo to discuss his succession, is spurned , over fears of reprisalss’

‘Mugabe’s invite to  politburo to discuss his succession, is spurned , over fears of reprisalss’

Top members of Zanu-PF have spurned a politburo invitation to discuss the succession issue within the ruling party as they are afraid it could be a way of trapping them. Party sources who spoke to The Zimbabwean said word had filtered down from the politburo that party structures were free to discuss President Robert Mugabe’s succession. “What we heard is that the subject of succession was mentioned at a recent politburo meeting after the president…

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Jonathan Moyo ‘flew too close to the sun and the wax holding his political wings, melted’

MDC-Renewal Team spokesperson Jacob Mafume has mocked Tsholotsho North MP Jonathan Moyo saying the wax which had been temporarily holding his political wings has melted after he flew too close to the sun. “They that fly close to the sun – Jonathan Moyo’s wings of wax,” Mafume said. “You have to give it to the chap sometimes, he has a soaring political career but alas Icarus the son of Daedalus, he always flies close to…

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Speed and stealth, that Mugabe delt with Moyo shows, the Zanu PF centre of power

Speed and stealth,   that Mugabe  delt with Moyo shows, the Zanu PF  centre of power

There were strong suggestions yesterday that Tuesday’s surprising freezing of voluble Zanu-PF politburo member Jonathan Moyo from Cabinet could be a precursor to the long-mooted major executive reshuffle – a prospect that has put many ministers on tenterhooks.Well-placed sources told the Daily News yesterday that the “speed and stealth” with which Mugabe had dealt with Moyo not only suggested that “there is one centre of power in Zanu-PF” but also that a major Cabinet reshuffle…

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