Why the Sydney Sekeramayi project failed
FORMER president Robert Mugabe’s project to appoint former defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi as his successor failed due to an array of reasons: his lack of gravitas, weak support from the deposed veteran leader as well as from the Zanu PF commissariat and critical party structures. Insiders said this week Sekeramayi proved to be a reluctant […]
Corrupt Mugabe must resign: Sipikita
It is not every day that an ordinary vendor gets to meet the head of Zimbabwe’s apex bank to complain about the crippling cash shortages. For 28-year-old Grievance Sipikita, Zimbabwe “is my country too” and there is no office that is too important not to be knocked at in his quest for answers. Sipikita wrote […]
President Robert Mugabe ‘anoints’ chosen successor
President Robert Mugabe could have given the biggest hint yet of his preferred successor after his first campaign event on Friday and a presentation by Higher and Tertiary Education minister Jonathan Moyo, a day earlier where he put forward Defence minister Sydney Sekeramayi as one of the most qualified people to take over from the […]
Fierce clashes loom at President Robert Mugabe Marondera rally
FIERCE intra-party clashes are expected at President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu PF youth rally in Marondera tomorrow, amid reports that rival factions are plotting to tear each other down in front of their party leader. According to reports, party youths affiliated to Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa’s Team Lacoste are planning to boo and denounce the ruling party’s […]
Zimbabwe War Vets Confront Saviour Kasukuwere
Zanu-PF’s national political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, last week came face to face with irate war veterans in Marondera, the provincial capital of Mashonaland East, where he had gone to stop raging factional fights on Friday. Kasukuwere had called for a crisis meeting of the Mashonaland East Provincial Coordinating Committee (PCC) to avert a disaster, triggered […]
Mugabe’s Gukurahundi role exposed
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe, some of his ministers and senior army officials were closely involved in the planning and execution of the Gukurahundi massacres, new research and recently declassified Australian government documents have revealed. The revelations are likely to embarrass the ruling Zanu PF government at a time the emotive issue has creeped back into the […]