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Zimbabwe: Patient Justice Minister Prepares for Power
African Arguments, 6 October 2014
On the 9th December, delegates to the ZANU-PF's elective congress will start to arrive in Harare. The congress, as usual, will be a tightly scripted event, with the inevitable… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Vice Presidency Race Rages On
Financial Gazette, 9 October 2014
Simon Khaya-Moyo is the national chairman of ZANU-PF. Read more »
Zimbabwe's Succession Race Rages on
The race to succeed President Robert Mugabe looks far from over as warring party factions continue to jostle for power in anticipation of a post Mugabe era. However the sudden ascendency of Grace Mugabe may change the complexion of race altogether, writes Tawanda Makwanye for African Arguments.
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Zimbabwe: Churches Rally Behind First Lady
The Herald, 8 October 2014
Churches yesterday rallied behind the recommendation to appoint First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe as the Zanu-PF Women's League secretary, saying the elevation was deserved as the First… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe Testing the Waters - Analysts
Zimbabwe Standard, 5 October 2014
First lady Grace Mugabe's rallies have sent tongues wagging in Zanu PF with analysts saying they were part of a strategy to clear the path for her further political rise as the… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Political Drama As Zanu-PF Leaders Tear At Each Other
Zimbabwe Independent, 3 October 2014
THE Zanu PF succession soap opera, which for many years has been playing out behind the scenes only to recently spill into the public domain as it reaches boiling point, is now… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Plot to Topple Mujuru Thickens
Zimbabwe Independent, 3 October 2014
THE plot within Zanu PF to oust Vice-President Joice Mujuru from her position and change the dynamics of President Robert Mugabe's fierce succession battle ahead of the party's… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Academic Tips Mujuru to Take Over
Zimbabwe Standard, 7 September 2014
RENONWED University of London academic and expert on Zimbabwean politics Professor Stephen Chan has revealed that in the Zanu PF succession battles he preferred Vice-President… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Dissecting Mugabe Succession Matrix
Zimbabwe Independent, 5 September 2014
STARTING this week, the Zimbabwe Independent will serielise a report titled The Mortal Remains: Succession and the Zanu PF Body Politic, produced by the Zimbabwe Human Rights NGO… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Succession Planning Mugabe's Tragic Failure
New Zimbabwe, 1 September 2014
SINCE 1977 when he controversially landed the leadership of Zanu PF, President Robert Mugabe deliberately avoided grooming a successor. In his insidious or at least unannounced… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: 2018 - Mugabe in Pre-Emptive Strike Against Impatient Successors
New Zimbabwe, 19 August 2014
PUBLISHER and academic, Ibbo Mandaza, has said President Robert Mugabe staged a pre-emptive coup on potential successors by accepting nomination by a group of Zanu PF women as the… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Mugabe's Wife Poised to Take Role in Zimbabwe's Ruling Party
VOA, 8 August 2014
Zimbabwe's first lady, Lady Grace Mugabe, is set to become part of the ruling party's highest-decision making body and possibly the country's next president. Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Grace Mugabe Disrupts Presidency Race
Zimbabwe Independent, 1 August 2014
FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe's entrance into Zanu PF politics as the party's Women's League boss has shaken Vice-President Joice Mujuru's camp, which seemed to have taken a lead in the… Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Compromise to Succeed Mugabe?
Zimbabwe Independent, 20 June 2014
DEFENCE minister Sydney Sekeramayi's name is featuring prominently among those who believe a compromise candidate to eventually succeed President Robert Mugabe should be identified… Read more »
InFocus
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First Lady Grace Mugabe addresses her third rally in Harare following previous meetings with traditional and religious leaders as she steps up efforts to gain political mileage. Read more »
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President Mugabe's son, Robert Jr, was reportedly nominated for a position in Zanu-PF's Youth League, days after Grace Mugabe's endorsement to take over the leadership of the ... Read more »
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Vice President Joice Mujuru has reportedly dismissed Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa as a "junior" in the race to succeed President Robert Mugabe. Read more »
