Search Results for: Simukai Tinhu
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Zimbabwe: why Kasukuwere cannot beat Mnangagwa to the post-Mugabe succession – By Simukai Tinhu
Saviour Kasukuwere has become something of a permanent fixture in President Mugabe’s government. The youthful minister, who has risen rapidly through the ranks, and currently serves ... -
Zimbabwe: Mnangagwa in, Mujuru out for Zanu-PF – By Simukai Tinhu
Just prior to the Zanu-PF Elective Congress in early December, Zimbabwe’s First Lady Grace Mugabe initiated her “˜meet the people’ tour after having been nominated as ... -
Zimbabwe: are the MDC’s days numbered? – By Simukai Tinhu
The party congress of Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC)’s, an electoral exercise whose main purpose was to reinvigorate the party in preparation for the 2018 ... -
Tsvangirai vs Biti: battle for control of the MDC – By Simukai Tinhu
The ambush two months ago by the Secretary General of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), Tendai Biti, against the party’s strongman, Morgan Tsvangirai, has set ... -
Zimbabwe: Tsvangirai & Biti should work together; they need each other – By Simukai Tinhu
In 1998 two aspiring politicians met to plot the beginnings of a movement that would change Zimbabwe’s political landscape for more than a decade. One of ... -
Is Morgan Tsvangirai going to be deposed as MDC leader? – By Simukai Tinhu
Following defeat in the July 2013 elections, Roy Bennett, the treasurer general of the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), made a direct call for the opposition ... -
Understanding the ZANU-PF succession: Mugabe’s choice likely to be decisive – By Simukai Tinhu
In Zimbabwe, the end of Robert Mugabe’s leadership of both his political party and the country is fast approaching. Ahead of the party’s congress in December ... -
Is Zimbabwe making up with the West? – By Simukai Tinhu
Despite President Robert Mugabe’s latest anti-Western proclamations at the UN General Assembly in September, it is hard to avoid the sense these days that a shift ... -
Why Zuma gave in and backed Mugabe – By Simukai Tinhu
South Africa has the potential and the desire to lead in Africa. It has an economy far larger than any in southern Africa and an advanced ... -
MDC must ditch its romantic face and seek power above all else – By Simukai Tinhu
So, Zimbabwe’s hotly contested elections have come and gone and the country’s patriarch, Robert Mugabe, has been declared the winner. His party, ZANU-PF, also trounced rivals ...