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Zimbabwe: Varsity Chancellor Nabbed Over Fake Grace Mugabe PhD

2018-02-18

[All Africa] THE crackdown on individuals that catapulted the then First Lady, Grace Mugabe's meteoric and divisive ...politicians call things divisive when when the other side sez something they don't like. Their own statements are never divisive, they're principled... rise to power has netted the Vice Chancellor of the Zim-bob-we's biggest university for awarding her a bogus Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree. Prof Levi Nyagura, the University of Zim-bob-we (UZ) Vice Chancellor, has been tossed in the slammer Drop the rod and step away witcher hands up! on Friday during an ongoing probe by the Zim-bob-we Anti-Corruption Commission (ZACC) into one of the most controversial episodes to the former First Lady's ascension. Mugabe graduated with a Doctorate in Philosophy from the Faculty of Social Studies in September 2014, three months into her "studies." Her husband, Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... was at the time the Chancellor of the university and capped her. He held that position in all public universities. Nyagura was expected to appear at a Harare court on Saturday at the time of going to press. Phylis Chikundura, ZACC spokeswoman, told journalists the anti-corruption watchdog had substantial evidence regarding the conferment of the PHD degree. "We picked him up (Nyagura) and took him into custody, where he will stay overnight (Friday). He will appear in court tomorrow (Saturday) on charges of abuse of office," Chikundura said. Chikundura confirmed the anti-corruption commission was also investigating former Sociology Department chairman, Professor Claude Mararike, who is suspected to have facilitated and presided over Grace's awarding of the contentious degree. Mararike is a longtime propagandist of the ruling Zanu (PF). The arrest of Nyagura comes after ten lecturers in the Sociology department petitioning ZACC on the awarding of the degree to the beleaguered former first lady. They (lecturers) argued they never saw her study transcripts, progress reports and thesis. The lecturers demand that the academic honour be withdrawn and overruled insisting the vice chancellor abused his office through awarding the undeserving former first lady. In retaliation to the accusation, Nyagura accused the lecturers of lacking the requisite qualifications to have monitored Mrs Mugabe's progress during her "studies". Harare provincial magistrate, Elisha Singano, directed the UZ registrar to provide a set of relevant documents, records and articles to the ZACC. The court would also access to documents proving the former first lady made pre-registration application form, her research proposal submitted to the Department of Sociology, minutes of the departmental board assigning a supervisor to Mrs Mugabe, academic certificates of her supervisor, minutes showing the doctoral degree passed through the Academic Committee and evidence of the UZ senate recommending to the university council the conferment of the doctorate. The ZACC Sherlocks would also want be furnished with the UZ Faculty Ordinance number 44, UZ quality assurance guidelines and benchmarks for management and supervision of higher degrees by research, General Academic Regulations for Post-Graduate Degrees of the UZ 1998/99 Volume 11 as well as copies of the transcript and notification to the awarding of the PhD. Mrs Mugabe graduated alongside the then deputy to Mugabe, Joice Mujuru, whose theses were publicly made available. The academic qualification heralded the rise of the first lady to a position to succeed Mugabe. These prospects vanised when the military intervened in the factionalism rocking ZANU-PF.

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Zimbabwe Lifts Counter-Sanctions Against Europe

2018-02-13

[All Africa] Zim-bob-we will invite international observers to monitor its elections later this year, signaling a shift in relations with Europe, whose observer missions the deposed administration of Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... barred from attending. The European Union ...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing... (EU) have not been invited since 2000 when Mugabe accused Western nations of impartiality and using the opposition to effect regime change. This was in reaction to the EU slapping his government with sanctions for alleged electoral fraud and human rights ...which are often intentionally defined so widely as to be meaningless... violations. Tensions have eased with new president, Emmerson Mnangagwa at the helm. He has assured the international community of credible, free and fair elections scheduled for July, hence his pledge EU, Unites States of America (USA) and United Nations ...the Oyster Bay money pit... (UN) observers would be invited. Addressing ruling party, Zanu-PF supporters in Mvuma, some 200km south of Harare, Mnangagwa also reiterated the call for the Southern African Development Community (SADC) and African Union ...a union consisting of 53 African states, most run by dictators of one flavor or another. The only all-African state not in the AU is Morocco. Established in 2002, the AU is the successor to the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), which was even less successful... (AU) to deploy observer teams. "There is nothing to hide. We want a peaceful and a transparent election. There is no reason for Zanu-PF or any other political party to be violent," Mnangagwa said. He said the ruling party supporters should desist from violence against opposition activists. "All citizens belong to one nation, which is Zim-bob-we," Mnangagwa said. His party, under Mugabe, has been accused of unleashing violence against the opposition to maintain a stranglehold on power since independence from Britannia in 1980. The Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) of ailing former Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai and National People's Party (NPP) of Mugabe's former Deputy, Joice Mujuru, are seen offering the biggest challenge to Zanu-PF.

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Zanu-PF Official Says Moyo Used Juju to Rise

2018-01-25

[All Africa] Zanu-PF deputy national commissar Omega Hungwe suspects that exiled former higher education minister and G40 kingpin, Jonathan Moyo, may have used juju for his meteoric rise in the ruling party. I guessed that. Didn't you? She said this while addressing the party's inter-party district meeting held in Mutare on Sunday. Hungwe said Moyo never went through the normal vetting process and channels when he "joined" the party despite his history of attacking President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... while he was outside government. "I think Moyo used some juju because he never went through cell or branch but he just rose to Politburo. He was just catapulted to the top echelons of the party," said Hungwe. The allegations of juju are common in Zanu PF as former President Robert Mugabe also accused his former vice presidents Joice Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangwagwa of consulting traditional healers in the middle of the night to topple him. Hungwe also claimed that Moyo was on the American spy agency, CIA, payroll specifically to destroy Zanu PF from inside. The Dzivarasekwa MP said Moyo and his allies, namely exiled former national political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, ex-youth leader Kudzayi Chipanga, Grace Mugabe and former vice president Phelekezela Mphoko, were working together to destroy the party from inside. Hungwe claimed that Moyo was sent by the Americans and later recruited Kasukuwere who later infiltrated the State House through the former first lady. "Kasukuwere later recruited Grace Mugabe. They were both on America's spy agency payroll. Moyo used the slogan if you can't beat them join them," said Hungwe. She said the youths interface rallies were part of a strategy to destroy Zanu PF once and for all. "The agenda of the Interface rallies was to destroy the party. We were going to lose the elections if Mugabe remained at the helm of the party come 2018. Where do you think that old man was going to take us to?" she said. She blasted the Central Intelligence Organisation (CIO) for losing track of its main job, saying it was focusing on factional fights. "When President Mnangagwa was then minister responsible for the CIO it was professional. The organization later lost track and started to meddle into succession politics," said Hungwe.

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Grace Mugabe Faces Probe Over 'Fake' Degree - Report

2018-01-08

[All Africa] Academics at the University of Zim-bob-we have petitioned the anti-corruption commission to investigate the "suspicious" way in which former first lady Grace Mugabe was awarded a doctorate four years ago. The academics from the university's sociology department say they were "shocked" when Grace Mugabe emerged among the doctoral candidates in 2014. "This was a shock to many members of the department as most members never (saw) or heard about the proposal, progress reports, thesis examiners and outcome of such a study by the candidate," reads part of the petition, quoted by the private Zim-bob-we Independent. "The awarding of the degree has therefore not gone through processes that other candidates are subjected to which makes the awarding of the degree very suspicious," the petition adds. Grace Mugabe was capped by her husband, then president Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case. Dumped in November 2017 when the Missus decided she wanted to be president, and opposed heer might against Crocodile Mnangawa Important safety tip: If your opponent goes by the name Crocodile andf your title is Shopper in Chief let him win.... , in August 2014 when he was still chancellor of the university. She appeared in the red academic gown and black cap for the doctorate of philosophy degree beside the then vice president, Joice Mujuru, who also received a doctorate. Mujuru's doctoral thesis has subsequently been released into the public domain, but Grace's thesis has never been made available. At the time Grace was reported to have enrolled for the doctorate just three months before it was awarded. Prominent graduates of the university, which has a distinguished track record, were outraged. The late Zim-bob-wean author, Chenjerai Hove at the time wrote to the university's vice chancellor, Levi Nyagura saying the university's decision to give a doctorate to Grace had reduced its degrees to "a laughing stock".

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Fall from Grace: Mugabe’s wife was his weakness

2017-11-18

[DAWN] President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... ’s downfall was caused by the ambitions of his combative wife Grace, whose emergence as his likely successor proved a step too far for Zim-bob-we’s military, analysts say. Grace Mugabe ‐ 41 years younger than her husband ‐ was once dismissed as a lightweight shopping addict. But she became increasingly active in public life in recent years, and became the frontrunner to take the top job when Mugabe last week sacked her arch-rival, vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa. The military ‐ determined to stop Grace, 52, being named as the new vice president -- moved in on Wednesday, taking control of the country and signalling the imminent end of Mugabe’s rule. "The crisis has been triggered by Grace because she wanted to grab power and to have Mugabe remove a lot of people," Shadrack Gutto, director of the Centre for African Renaissance Studies at the University of South Africa, said. "She overreached herself. She has done a lot to accelerate the removal of her husband from power. "The military decided that enough is enough." Grace’s political plans were backed by the so-called G40, a group of young supporters that has earned a reputation for aggression. The faction, which includes some ministers, has been the primary target of the military officers who announced on state TV in the early hours of Wednesday that they would bring "criminals" close to Mugabe to justice. "The Zim-bob-wean army feel they have the right to have a president they approve of," Knox Chitiyo, of the Chatham House think-tank, said. "They had to act now before Grace was appointed as vice president at the ZANU-PF party congress next month. Grace’s team got within weeks of success." Grace, born in South Africa, was one of Mugabe’s secretaries when their affair began in 1987, and they had two children in secret before the president’s wife died in 1992. The couple then married at a lavish ceremony in 1996 attended by Nelson Mandela, before having a third child. Grace was awarded a doctorate by the University of Zim-bob-we, where her husband is chancellor, reportedly just three months after enrolling, and in 2014 became the head of the ZANU-PF party’s women’s wing. She has often been accused of extravagant spending on luxury clothes and international travel, and of involvement in corrupt land deals. ’Gucci Grace’: Dubbed "Gucci Grace" _ "The First Shopper" or even "DisGrace", she showed her political mettle in 2014 with her campaign against then vice president Joice Mujuru, who was a contender to succeed her husband. Grace launched sustained verbal attacks against Mujuru, accusing her of plotting to topple the president. Soon afterwards, Mujuru was ousted and later expelled from the ruling ZANU-PF party. But Grace’s attempt to neutralise Mnangagwa ended very differently -- leaving her and her husband languishing under house arrest in Harare. Grace Mugabe’s confrontational approach and distant public image have brought her little popular affection in Zim-bob-we. Despite that, her supporters have sought to popularise nicknames like "Dr Amai (Doctor Mother)" and "queen of queens". In speeches she had railed against anyone accused of disloyalty to the president, and her short temper hit the headlines in August when she allegedly assaulted a model who was with two of her sons at a South African hotel. Grace was granted diplomatic immunity and made a swift exit from the country. She once told a South African television programme that she is no longer concerned about what people think of her.

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Zimbabwe's opposition leader demands civilian rule

2017-11-17

[Al Jazeera] The leader Zim-bob-we's largest opposition alliance has called on the world's oldest sitting president to voluntarily step aside as the country entered its second day of a military takeover. "In the interest of the people, Mr Bob Muggsy Mugabe Nonagenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... must resign and step down immediately in line with the national expectation and sentiment," Morgan Tsvangirai said at a presser on Thursday. Former vice president Joice Mujuru - who was dismissed in 2014 on allegations of plotting against Mugabe - declined to comment on the president's confinement. But she has said the situation highlighted the need to create a transitional administration to oversee free-and-fair elections in the southern African nation. Former finance minister Tendai Biti echoed Tsvangirai's sentiments on Mugabe's resignation and told Al Jazeera the time had come draw a line in the sand for Mugabe’s 37-year rule. "Mugabe cannot resist anymore because it will result in those who want him gone using extra-legal means to remove him from power. That will be a very unfortunate end, but you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see that it’s inevitable," Biti said in a phone interview.

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Zimbabwe: Mugabe Dared to Kill Protesters

2016-09-12

All major opposition political parties yesterday vowed to defy President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... 's threats against demonstrations, saying they are prepared to die on the streets for their freedom. Morgan Tsvangirai's MDC-T party, Joice Mujuru's People First, the Welshman Ncube-led MDC, People's Democratic Party led by Tendai Biti and other members of the National Electoral Reform Agenda (Nera) representing all of Zim-bob-we's opposition parties said yesterday that following Mugabe's deadly threats against opposition leaders, they had met and resolved to resume the demonstrations on an even higher note. Addressing the Zanu PF central committee meeting on Friday, Mugabe warned the opposition, in particular MDC-T leader, Tsvangirai that he would unleash his full wrath on them if they continued with street protests against his rule. He said his patience was running out and that no one should blame him for whatever would befall the opposition leaders. MDC-T secretary-general Douglas Mwonzora, however, said in view of Mugabe's threats and police brutality, opposition parties had met on Friday and agreed to turn up the heat on the 92-year-old Zanu PF leader. "We will up our game against Mugabe. We are not afraid of him or his police. He must know that we are not about to negotiate with him for our constitutional rights and as Nera, we have resolved to continue with demonstrations," he said. Mwonzora accused Mugabe of being delusional and forgetting that he was the one who signed the 2013 constitution into law, that he now wanted to violate. The MDC-T said it would stand in defiance and let the police decide whether or not to harm demonstrators in the wake of statements by Mugabe, which seemed to give the police a free reign. "It's the choice of the police whether or not they should shed blood of innocent protestors. That there are murderers in the system will not stop us from sending a message and taking action which will benefit the future of Zim-bob-we," said Mwonzora. Tsvangirai's spokesperson, Luke Tamborinyoka said Mugabe was caught up in an "embarrassing time warp," as he was failing to understand that demonstrations were permissible in the new constitution. "He is living out of his time; an analogue politician in a digital age, a Remington typewriter in an internet cafe. President Tsvangirai is not moved at all by these threats from an old man shocked to the core by the resurgence of people power," Tamborinyoka said. He accused Mugabe of always blaming Tsvangirai for whatever problem he faced including family issues. "He is haunted by the ghost of the man who has taught him electoral defeat to the extent that even where the people speak he sees not them but the ghost of his political master, the only man who makes him quiver like reeds in a howling storm," Tamborinyoka said. Zim-bob-we People First (ZimPF) said following years of experience working with Mugabe, their leader and former Vice President, Joice Mujuru, was well aware that the Zanu PF leader was not a person to negotiate with. "The people who have been in Zanu PF and are now with ZimPF know from experience that you cannot negotiate with Mugabe. The only language he understands is the demonstrations, so we are not going to attempt to negotiate with him," ZimPF spokesperson Jealousy Mawarire said.

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Mugabe ‘facing his Waterloo’ after war veterans abandoned him

2016-07-27

[SOUTHAFRICATODAY.NET] Zim-bob-wean President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... may be "facing his Waterloo" after his most loyal supporters, the veterans of the liberation war, abandoned him. A growing number of other war veterans have joined the Zim-bob-we National Liberation War Veterans’ Association in calling Mugabe, 92, a "dictator", demanding he quit and vowing not to support him in the next elections in 2018 if he does not. The association also criticised the government’s recent attacks against peaceful protesters who spoke out about the economy and against the police via social media and conducted a stayaway three weeks ago. Mugabe was facing "an endgame of tragic dimensions", Zim-bob-we weekly, The Independent, editor Dumisani Muleya said on Friday. "If the war veterans join forces with the national resistance movement driven by civic groups and backed by churches and opposition parties, Mugabe, already on the ropes and hanging onto power by [his] fingernails, could soon face his Waterloo." Growing protest against the government has been fuelled by a dire economic crisis, including a lack of cash, even to pay soldiers on time. They are usually the first to be paid. On Saturday the governing Zanu PF struck back at the war veterans, calling them "treasonous" and "traitorous." Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa, who is also a war veteran, delivered a more muted response. "If they are true war veterans, the president is their commander-in-chief and they must be loyal and committed. I don’t think those who say such things are loyal or genuine war veterans." Mnangagwa is tipped to succeed Mugabe and has the support of many veterans. War veterans leader Chris Mutsvangwa was fired from the cabinet post he held on behalf of veterans in March and was then expelled from Zanu PF for opposing Mugabe’s wife Grace, who appears to have ambitions to succeed him when he dies. New war veterans minister Tshinga Dube suggested on Saturday that the ex-fighters elect a new leader to replace Mutsvangwa. But another senior veteran Francis Nhando responded by saying the association fully backed Mutsvangwa. "He [Mugabe] should announce his retirement date. It will be very difficult to campaign for him in 2018 because we are no longer working together," he said. Former vice president Joice Mujuru, herself a veteran of the liberation war, said over the weekend: "I want to tell war veterans not to be scared with threats that your farms will be repossessed and your pensions freezed. That won’t happen," she told a rally about 100km southeast of Harare, which she addressed as leader of her new political party Zim-bob-we First. Mujuru, a life-long member of Zanu PF, was stripped of her position and expelled from the party in late 2014 after she declared her interest in succeeding Mugabe. The attack on her was led by Grace Mugabe’s supporters. Another war veteran Rugare Gumbo, a former Zanu PF front man also expelled from Zanu PF in 2014 and now a supporter of Mujuru’s party, said on Sunday: "The statement was issued by genuine war veterans. They were in Mozambique. We knew them there. They fought in the war, and the situation in Zim-bob-we now is very poor. So many are suffering. The criticism was correct. You will see more and more of them criticising Mugabe."

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Ex-VP Of Zimbabwe Launches Opposition Party Against ZANU-PF

2016-03-02

[SAHARAREPORTERS] Former Zim-bob-wean Vice President Joice Mujuru has launched a new opposition party to challenge President Bob Muggsy Mugabe Octogenarian President-for-Life of Zim-bob-we who turned the former Breadbasket of Africa into the African Basket Case... and the ruling ZANU-PF party. Mujuru served as vice president for ten years and was seen as Mugabe’s likely successor before being ousted in December 2014. The vice president was accused of leading a "treacherous cabal" aiming to overthrow and kill Mugabe, allegations which Mujuru denies. At her first presser since being deposed, Mujuru announced that she launched the Zim-bob-we People First party to revive the economy and improve relations with the West. "We are not fighting one man but a system, that system which is unjust," Mujuru told her audience. At least four former cabinet members who were also purged by Mugabe, including Didymus Mutasa and Rugare Gumbo, attended the launch of Mujuru’s party. According to her aides, Mujuru also has support from some senior members of the military. Mujuru said that the formation of the Zim-bob-we People Party is heroic and will fight the "scourge of corruption" in Zim-bob-we. But despite the support she enjoyed at the Zim-bob-we People Party’s launch, Mujuru and her new party will likely struggle to remove the powerful ZANU-PF, according to the BBC. Supporters of the main opposition party, the Movement for Democratic Change, may still view Mujuru as loyal to Mugabe and ZANU-PF and will unlikely join her party. Furthermore, according to BBC Africa analyst Lewis Machipisa, Zim-bob-wean law enforcement agencies may investigate Mujuru over the business she and her husband ran after independence in 1980. If it is discovered that Mujuru was corrupt, it will harm her party’s legitimacy.

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ZimBob VP linked to plot to kill Comrade Bob

2014-11-16

Zimbabwe's vice president, once seen as a possible successor to President Robert Mugabe, has been linked to an alleged plot to assassinate the 90-year-old leader, a state-run newspaper reported Sunday. "I kept waiting for the old codger to die. He got sick, and then sicker and then sicker. And I waited, and he got sicker and sicker. And then, he lived!" An ally of Vice President Joice Mujuru who was recently ousted from his post as ruling party spokesman said the allegations that he conspired against Mugabe are false. Rugare Gumbo, the ousted spokesman, was identified in The Sunday Mail as a plotter against Mugabe, who has been in power since independence in 1980. Sounds like Joice will say whatever it takes to remain alive... The Sunday Mail cited a voice recording and reported comments as evidence of the alleged plot but it did not attribute the information to security officials or other sources. Political factions are maneuvering for influence ahead of the annual ruling party congress next month. Mujuru has come under repeated verbal attacks from the president's wife, Grace. Sorta like coming under attack from Moo-chelle but with a slightly higher risk of death, as opposed to being forced to eat a modern school lunch... Grace Mugabe has assumed an increasingly political role, angering some party insiders who believe she does not have leadership credentials in a country struggling with high unemployment and other social problems. She does, however, know where all the bodies are buried, and she does have Bob's ear (and teeth, and testicles, and...

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In Zimbabwe, another Mugabe seeks the presidency

2014-10-21

[Dhaka Tribune] President Robert Mugabeâs wife Grace Mugabe has begun swiftly and in earnest to succeed her husband as leader of Zimbabwe, and in the past two months the she has been using the budget and the jets and helicopters of her husband to travel up and down the country in a âcharm offensiveâ to rally support. Ms. Mugabe, 40 years junior to her husband, is seeking to position herself as a second vice-president of Zimbabwe â ready to take control should President Mugabe, who turns 91 this year, step down or pass away, according to a report by The Christian Science Monitor. Mugabe has been in office for nearly three decades. But the first lady faces stiff resistance from the presidentâs fellow liberation-struggle cadres, who have elbowed each other for power for years â especially current first Vice President Joice Mujuru, considered a prime successor. Two months ago Ms. Mugabe was nominated as head of the womenâs wing of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union (ZANU) Patriotic Front (PF). Sheâs since used the spot to court church leaders, traditional chiefs, and youth â often hosting them in lavish parties at the plush family estate in Mazowe, a small town just north of the capital, Harare. Mugabe has been ailing and has traveled to a number of overseas medical facilities. Heâs rumored to possibly step down prior to 2018 when his term ends. He has hinted he may retire from the ZANU PF party leadership, though heâs accepted the nomination to lead the party congress in December. Under Zimbabweâs new constitution, that congress is where Grace Mugabe would need to become second in command to her husband in order to then snatch the top job. Ms. Mugabe has shown herself willing to take on the same kind of tough approach to politics that her husband is known for. She recently told a gathering that she was ready to âspill bloodâ in defense of the vast empire grabbed from white farmers during the chaotic land reform that started in 2000.

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Zim's new govt: Who is in who is out - Mail & Guardian

2013-08-09

Political analysts believe that in appointing his Cabinet, Mugabe will try to balance his appointments along tribal and factional lines. Zanu-PF has two main factions, one led by Vice-President Joice Mujuru and the other by out­going Defence Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa, although both deny leading any factions. Nearly nose-snorted my rooibos. Those M&G political analysts, minds like steel traps.

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