VP Mnangagwa Allies Booted Out From Zanu PF Women’s League

Top allies axed from Zanu PF women’s league, face party ouster … Emmerson Mnangagwa HE Grace Mugabe-led Zanu PF women’s league on Tuesday fired two national executive members and recommended their expulsion from the ruling party in a development that will likely worry vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa. The two officials are part of the Zanu PF group which backs Mnangagwa to succeed the 91-year-old and reportedly ailing President Robert Mugabe. Those subjected to no-confidence votes…

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Grace Declares, ‘If Neccessary, We Will Carry ‘Sir Fall-A-Lot Mugabe’, In A Wheelbarrow!’

Grace Declares, ‘If Neccessary, We Will Carry ‘Sir Fall-A-Lot Mugabe’,  In A Wheelbarrow!’

FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe has again reiterated that President Robert Mugabe, now aged 91, will not retire, adding the veteran leader will be taken to work in a wheelbarrow if necessary. The president’s wife said this while addressing supporters at a rally in Masvingo on Friday. At another recent rally, Grace also indicated that a special wheelchair would be designed for the aging leader who has appeared in news broadcasts struggling to walk unaided on…

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Nine Opposition Parties Sign Document Committing To Fight For Electoral Reforms

 OPPOSITION leaders led by Morgan Tsvangirai of the MDC-T on Wednesday signed a document committing to fight for electoral reforms ahead of the 2018 vote. But the event was boycotted by a number of other political parties, indicating the lack of unity in the opposition ranks despite broad agreement on the need for electoral reforms. The local opposition, led by Tsvangirai, disputes President Robert Mugabe’s triumph at the 2013 election, claiming that – as with…

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Mnangagwa’s Ziscosteel ‘Lies’ Laid Bare With Essar Deal Collapse

Mnangagwa’s Ziscosteel ‘Lies’ Laid Bare With Essar Deal Collapse

PUMPED UP and feeling anointed to succeed after the Zanu PF congress, Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa toured the collapsed Ziscosteel in December 2014 and declared that the company – closed since 2009 – would soon resume operations. Addressing a campaign rally in his then Chirumhanzu constituency, the Midlands political godfather declared: “Very soon, production will resume at New Zimsteel (Zisco’s new name) and this will go a long way in reviving the economy.” The suffering…

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Ziscosteel Workers Contracts, Terminated And Zim Gvt Takes Over Firm’s US$700m Debt

Ziscosteel Workers Contracts, Terminated And Zim Gvt Takes Over Firm’s  US$700m Debt

GOVERNMENT will, with effect from December 1 this year, terminate all contracts for Ziscosteel workers on three months’ notice and absorb its wage liabilities in a bid to attract investors to resuscitate the company, Finance Minister, Patrick Chinamasa has said. The development confirms the collapse of the Redcliff steelmaker’s much-vaunted takeover by an Indian company despite vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa insisting in February this year that plans to restart the closed company were at an…

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Are You Saying Mugabe Is Gay? – Asks Grace

Are You Saying Mugabe Is Gay? – Asks Grace

First Lady Grace Mugabe came out guns blazing blasting sections of the media for suggesting that her 91-year-old husband President Mugabe could be gay. Addressing Zanu-PF supporters at a rally in Murehwa on Saturday, Dr Mugabe asked the media if they were suggesting that Mnangagwa will become Amai Mugabe. She was responding to NewsDay headlined “Grace paves way for Mnangagwa”.source-byo24

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‘What Zanu PF Problems,….Do I Look Like I Have Not Slept’-Mnangagwa

‘What Zanu PF Problems,….Do I Look Like I Have Not Slept’-Mnangagwa

VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s arrogance played out in parliament Wednesday after he was quizzed on President Robert Mugabe’s health. MDC-T lawmaker Prosper Mutseyami had asked Mnangagwa if the country is still stable given Mugabe’s continued “gaffes and falls”. “I would want to know if the country is still safe and stable given the health problems that the President continues to encounter. “He has developed a tendency to fall and say the wrong things. Can the…

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Zanu PF Member Fataly Axes Two Zanu PF Members In St Marys Chitungwiza

GRUESOME: Two Zanu-PF members were reportedly fatally axed by fellow party member yesterday in St Mary’s, Chitungwiza . As long feared by political analysts and rational ruling party bigwigs, the deadly factional and succession wars devouring President Robert Mugabe’s post-congress Zanu-PF turned fatal yesterday, after two people were axed to death in bloody intra-party ructions in the dormitory town of Chitungwiza. When a crew from the Daily News on Sunday visited the sprawling township, the…

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‘Zimbabwe’s Defacto President, Grace Mugabe, Elbows Out VP Mnangagwa’

First Lady Grace Mugabe’s presumed ambitions to elbow out Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the post-congress Zanu-PF’s bitter war to succeed President Robert Mugabe got a massive boost yesterday. The ruling party’s women’s league in Mashonaland West province openly moved to demand the mooted return of a women’s quota system in the Zanu-PF constitution, a clear statement that they want the first lady to take over from Mnangagwa as party vice president. Mnangagwa, who has…

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Joseph Kabila Prepares To Takeover African Union (AU) Chairmanship From Mugabe

President Joseph Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has arrived in Harare for a one-day working visit in his capacity as African Union (AU) First Vice Chair. Mr Kabila is expected to deliberate with the AU Chairman, President Robert Mugabe current issues and situations prevailing on the African continent. The meeting is in preparation for his take-over of the continental chairmanship in January next year. President Kabila, who is being accompanied by Zimbabwe’s…

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