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Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Zimbabwe African National Union - Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) has been the ruling political party in Zimbabwe since independence in 1980, led by Robert Mugabe, first as Prime Minister with the party simply known as ZANU, and then as President from 1988 after taking over ZAPU and renaming the party ZANU-PF. ZANU allied itself with the Zimbabwe African People's Union in the Patriotic Front, but they split after achieving majority rule. On 18 March 1975 Herbert Chitepo was assassinated in Lusaka and Mugabe was nominated to lead ZANU. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ZANU-PF   (390 words)

ZANU PF IN THE RED AS IT POSTS Z$15.5 BILLION LOSS Zanu PF also had interests in several firms such as National Blankets, Woolworths and Ottawa Building, which used to house ANC political activists in Harare during the 1980s, were disposed of in unclear circumstances. Zanu PF is also in deep financial trouble because companies owned by its supporters and well-wishers are also in distress due to the current economic crisis. But Zanu PF says it is „inconceivable‰ that Tregers, in which the party has a 41,96% shareholding, managed to declare a $1,2 billion dividend in four years when its annual turnover was about $150 billion. www.torontofreepress.com /2004/zim121604.htm   (1026 words)

ZWNEWS.com - linking the world to Zimbabwe Zanu PF's female members have been asking for the quota since 1999, but complying with the request six weeks before the elections on 31 March would suggest that the party is using it to attract votes - now that the rhetoric on land reform has all but worn out. The Zanu PF candidate for the Gutu North constituency in Masvingo province and an MP since 1985, Shuvai Mahofa, said she would lobby for "a law for 50 percent female representation, starting with urban and rural councils, and finally parliament", instead of each party doing as it felt. Thirty-six seats were designated for women in the Zanu PF primaries: some were elected unopposed, while others replaced male candidates sidelined for allegedly attempting to derail Joyce Mujuru's elevation to the vice-presidency; other seats, initially designated for women, were instead declared open, and many women lost to male candidates. www.zwnews.com /issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=11257   (934 words)

The Zimbabwe Independent ZANU PF has dissolved party structures in Bulawayo for the second time in less than a month on the orders of Vice-President Joseph Msika, as internal feuds threaten to split the party ahead of next month’s election. Sibanda fell out of favour with senior Zanu PF members in the province after he questioned their alleged corrupt practices and was subsequently suspended from Zanu PF for four years for indiscipline. Angry party members told the Zimbabwe Independent this week that the dissolution of party structures was being masterminded by the Zanu PF old guard opposed to former provincial chairman and war veterans national chairman Jabulani Sibanda. www.theindependent.co.zw /news/2005/February/Friday4/1604.html   (456 words)

MAGGEMM 2000 Zanu (PF) then refined this culture of violence into an art in 1981 with the Aid of the North Koreans; they formed PISI, CIO, and the "Firth Brigade" and launched the "Gukurahundi", a war on the villagers in Matebeleland and Midlands between 1982 and 1988. Zanu (PF) has not changed its spots from the philosophy, which brought about and carried out the campaign of violence, which led to the 1985 Elections directed towards the opposition supporters, and members of ethnic minorities. Essentially Zanu (PF) is a party of violence; it was born in a violent birth in 1963, when the original Zanu splinter group left Zapu in 1963. members.aol.com /maggemm/NewsLetter5.htm   (1658 words)

IRCT IRCT Report on Torture in Zimbabwe - 4. Continuing violence ZANU (PF) supporters said that their houses would be burnt; they would be beaten just as they had been during the June 2000 elections and their children would be thrown to the dogs. ZANU (PF) youth were sent to kidnap and assault her, she said. J.M. (aged 25) was threatened with assault by five ZANU (PF) youths on 21 March 2001, after she returned to Matove from testifying in the election petitions. www.irct.org /usr/irct/home.nsf/unid/JREW-5FCF7T?Open   (6176 words)

Zanu PF accused of using illegal ballots Zanu PF's legal supremo Patrick Chinamasa said the allegations were, at face value, meant to discredit Zanu PF and were coming from what he said were MDC (the opposition Movement for Democratic Change) journalists. A dozen teachers and villagers from Mashonaland East and Masvingo provinces said Zanu PF officials were distributing ballot papers to every person of voting age in their villages and schools and asking them to fill in the ballots. The Financial Gazette also heard this week that Zanu PF members, mostly armed militia, were forcing people to vote along these lines in Gokwe and Nembudziya areas of the Midlands. www.namibian.com.na /2002/January/africa/023F31E2DB.html   (644 words)

SADOCC - News - Zanu PF heads for split over Chiyangwa As a Zanu PF provincial chairman, Chiyangwa is seen as an influential party cadre in the dicey debate to choose President Robert Mugabe’s successor ahead of the expiry of the Zimbabwean leader’s term of office in 2008. The humiliating arrest of Zanu PF Mashonaland West provincial chairman Phillip Chiyangwa at the weekend could further split the ruling party right through the middle at a crucial moment when it is trying to ward off a threat posed by the opposition. Masepe said Zanu PF could not afford to sit back and watch official corruption flourish ahead of an election so it needed to be seen to be doing something even when there was a risk of splitting the party further. www.sadocc.at /news/2004-018.shtml   (953 words)

Welcome to the Financial Gazette Online! More than a dozen ZANU PF legislators have had their elections nullified by the High Court mainly on the grounds of the violence that characterised the 2000 polls but are still sitting in Parliament on the legal technicality that they are appealing against the rulings in the Supreme Court. ZANU PF has won nine out of the 12 parliamentary by-elections held since 2000 to increase its seats in Parliament from 62 to 66 and observers cited violence and widespread voter apathy as the main factors contributing to the results. Political analysts said it is clear from the actions and activities of ZANU PF that the party, which has been in existence for over four decades, is preparing for a make or break election that may come anytime within the next 18 months. www.fingaz.co.zw /fingaz/2004/January/January22/4616.shtml   (927 words)

Constitutional madness will not save Zanu PF Zanu PF has been illegally and corruptly manipulating through patronage and counting as part of its membership and caucus ten chiefs who are not appointed by Mugabe but who are directly elected by a special electoral college of chiefs in order to get the required two thirds majority by bring its seats to 108. The first myth peddled by Zanu PF is that Zimbabwe is still under the Lancaster Constitution and this claim allows Zanu PF to give the false impression that all it is doing is to amend a colonial constitution in order to paint its opponents as running dogs of imperialism who support a colonial constitution. A third myth invented after the March 31, 2005 general election is that Zanu PF was given a mandate to amend the constitution by the electorate. www.newzimbabwe.com /pages/senate11.13046.html   (2489 words)

SADCProtocolWatch22-03-05.htm Zanu PF militants force-marched residents and workers to attend a political campaign rally addressed by Vice-President Joyce Mujuru at Makoni Country Club. PF district chair, together with Education Minister Aeneas Chigwedere, toured the constituency warning people that Zanu Pf has been busy recording the names of those suspected of supporting the MDC. MDC youth activist, Thembekile Moyo, suffered a fractured leg after being attacked by Zanu PF youth in Insiza while putting up posters. www.swradioafrica.com /Documents/SADCProtocolWatch22-03-05.htm   (3649 words)

Zimbabwe Information Centre - News Zanu PF's head of information, Nathan Shamuyarira, told IRIN that all the candidates nominated to sit on the commission, including its chairperson, would be proposed by parliament and not by the president. A senior Zanu PF official is said to have already communicated the government's intention to members of the workers' committee when he addressed them at the mine a couple of weeks. Zanu PF national commissar, Elliot Manyika, and his team that includes Nicholas Goche, Patrick Chinamasa and John Nkomo, is expected to supervise the weekend elections. www.zic.com.au /updates/2004/6july2004.htm   (18987 words)

The Standard Zanu PF spokesperson, Dr Nathan Shamuyarira, sai the party was disturbed by the on-going intra-party violence and was working to stop it. Although publicly, Zanu PF leaders say it is healthy for democracy in the party, they are secretly worried that it is causing serious divisions within the lower ranks,Ó said one Zanu PF official. Zanu PFÕs Phineas Chihota was recently declared legislator for Seke constituency after the MDC pulled out of the election contest. www.thestandard.co.zw /sections/readers/local_reader.asp?st_id=5078   (799 words)

Three current articles re: ZANU PF congress (Dec 15th) Zanu PF Information secretary Nathan Shamu-yarira would neither confirm not deny reports that the ruling party had set up such a committee to infiltrate the labour body. In an opening address to the Zanu PF special congress, Mugabe said the whites were sabotaging the economy because they wanted to help remove his party from power. AFTER telling his central committee on Wednesday that Zanu PF was at war with the country’s white commercial farmers, an embattled President Mugabe yesterday intensified his racial rhetoric to whip up nationalist indignation against a growing list of enemies — at home and abroad — in his battle for political survival. www.ms.dk /kampagner/Zimbabwe2000/threecurrent.htm   (1864 words)

allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Senate: Divisions Rock Zanu PF ZANU PF used its controversial majority in Parliament to amend the country's constitution for the 17th time since independence from Britain in 1980 to allow for the re-establishment of an Upper House for which the senatorial elections are to be held. However, according to Elliot Manyika, the ZANU PF national political commissar, in the absence of primary elections, candidates would be elected through consensus at district and provincial levels before their names are submitted to the national elections directorate. AS the jostling for the right to represent ZANU PF in the senatorial elections intensifies, cracks are widening within the ruling party amid revelations that the politburo wants to give the old guard the exclusive right to represent the ruling party in the polls. allafrica.com /stories/200510060116.html   (664 words)

Welcome to the Financial Gazette Online! While the potential for fissures within ZANU PF became more glaring after the infamous Tsholotsho meeting, which has claimed the scalps of over a dozen party hopefuls, it is the imposition of candidates this week that has driven disgruntled cadres to the edge. Eight ZANU PF members broke ranks with the ruling party to campaign as independent candidates in 1995, citing irregularities in the nomination procedures. A PURGE waged by the ruling party against rebellious cadres might cost ZANU PF, which is facing another tricky poll against the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), as it emerged that spurned party bigwigs might contest the March elections as independent candidates. www.fingaz.co.zw /fingaz/2005/January/January6/7445.shtml   (730 words)

Zanu PF Welcome to Zanu PF Zanu PF Welcome to Zanu PF Zimbabwe Dates has it all... www.zanupf.com   (11 words)

ZANU PF Youths to Train in Egypt (and Cuba) Zanu PF sources said another batch of youths was expected to leave for a crash course in Cuba under the auspices of the Young Communists in a deal confirmed by the Cuban embassy recently. This was seen in Johannesburg where Zanu PF supporters were flown down to wave anti-Tony Blair placards and show solidarity with the president at the summit. A ruling-party source, who was also in Johannesburg, said the strategy would involve the creation of new NGOs and sponsoring of existing ones with a Zanu PF outlook to pose as civil society. www.cyber-spy.com /unetfbi-20021212-219.html   (450 words)

Mugabe purges Zanu PF rebels But the sources said the Zanu PF politburo, which normally meets on Wednesday but will meet today, was scheduled to discuss the final action to be taken against the chairmen as well as endorse the dismissal of Moyo, Chinamasa and others. As the purge got into motion, the six chairmen were yesterday hauled before Zanu PF's disciplinary committee chaired by party chairman John Nkomo to explain their actions. Six provincial chairmen, who attended a meeting allegedly convened by Moyo in his home area of Tsholotsho a week before the nominations to plot a flopped rebellion against orders by Mugabe and Zanu PF's politburo to nominate Mujuru for the vice-presidency, will also be fired from their posts, the sources said. www.zimbabwedemocracytrust.org /outcomes/details?contentId=2014   (606 words)

Zanu PF lifts Langa, Ncube's suspension ZANU PF on Tuesday averted a revolt in Matabeleland when it went back on an earlier decision to suspend two MPs and deputy ministers from the party, and barring them from taking part in the March parliamentary elections. The move sparked a volley of protests from Zanu PF activists in Matabeleland stunned by the suspension of two of the only three Zanu PF MPs in the two Matabeleland provinces. By evening on Tuesday, Zanu PF buckled under pressure and the party's elections director Elliot Manyika announced the suspension of the two men had been overruled. www.newzimbabwe.com /PAGES/SKY56.12162.HTML   (688 words)

Zimbabwe -- ZANU PF woos MDC A former trade unionist-turned-opposition politician, Tsvangirai is viewed by power brokers in ZANU PF as the stumbling block to resumption of dialogue that could lead to a power-sharing pact between ZANU PF and the MDC in which the latter would be a junior partner. ZANU PF national chairman John Nkomo refused to take questions on the matter, instead referring this paper to the ruling party?s spokesman Nathan Shamuyarira. SOME senior ruling ZANU PF party officials attempted to lure opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) leaders to agree to dialogue and possibly a power-sharing pact between the two parties while MDC leader Morgan Tsvangirai was in jail last week. www.freerepublic.com /focus/f-news/934558/posts   (829 words)

zanu pf thugs attack whites Supporters of Mr Mugabe's Zanu PF Party massed in the streets, stoning cars carrying whites and attacking shoppers, stabbing one victim. Six of the farmers' wives tried to visit them yesterday and found a mob of about 40 youths wearing Zanu PF T-shirts massed outside the police station. The scene of the attacks was Chinhoyi, a town 60 miles north-west of Harare, on one of the main tourist routes to Mana Pools national park and Lake Kariba. rhodesian.server101.com /zanu_pf_thugs_attack_whites.htm   (1204 words)

OneWorld Africa home - Unmasking Zanu PF hypocrisy about NGOs History reveals that this myth-lie is impossible, and that Zanu PF knew it at the beginning of the road. It'll be the same story for thousands of well-meaning democrats with meagre internal resources, seen by Zanu PF as part of the Movement for Democratic Change's challenge in the parliamentary election scheduled for March 2005. Resorting to Africa-centrism and its 1964 ideology of "we are our own liberators", Zanu PF claims these organisations tot up murder and torture accounts and teach the bourgeois delusions of multiparty democracy and individual liberty all for the Blair-Bush conspiracy. africa.oneworld.net /article/view/97259/1   (1040 words)

Zimbabwe news ZANU campaigned on the basis of its liberation war record, attempting to demonize the opposition by casting them as stooges of the country's 70,000 remaining whites. Then again, for the ZANU apparatchiks whose well-being depends on control over the state, a mauling at the polls and the consequent escalation of domestic protests and international pressure could be the cue to retire the 75-year-old strongman. And the danger is that the greater the challenge Mugabe perceives, the more desperate he becomes: The land invasions and accompanying violence began only after Mugabe lost a referendum in February that would have dramatically increased his constitutional powers. www.zimbabwesituation.com /jun27c.html   (5895 words)

ZANU-PF: A party in transition? - Monograph No 87 September 2003 It would also be fair to contend that President Mugabe’s continued tenure of office rests on his ability to exploit this historical factor in the political development of ZANU-PF. Conflicts between ZANU and ZAPU were manifest in street fights in Zimbabwe’s main cities and urban centres. Both ZANU and ZAPU received military support in various forms from such countries as the Soviet Union, China, Bulgaria and Romania during the Cold War period. www.iss.co.za /Pubs/Monographs/No87/Chap2.htm   (4510 words)

allAfrica.com: Zimbabwe: Zanu PF Summons Industry Bosses ZANU PF has previously accused industry of giving financial support to the opposition Movement for Democratic Change, and blamed businesses for hoarding basic foodstuffs to whip up emotions and cause an uprising against President Mugabe's government. ZANU PF summoned about 40 top business executives to a heated meeting last week and blamed them for Zimbabwe's deepening economic crisis, warning against public criticism of government policies. At last week's meeting, Manyika stuck to the ZANU PF refrain that "detractors" of the land reform programme were sabotaging the economy. allafrica.com /stories/200510130036.html   (596 words)

Zimbabwe -- Zanu PF officials' wives worry over sanctions While Zanu PF officials who have been included on the list of persons banned from travelling to the United States and western Europe have dismissed the personal sanctions as irrelevant, some of their spouses are crying foul, saying the move will adversely affect them and their families. The targeted sanctions affect Zanu PF officials, their spouses and children, and this is what has irked women who were interviewed by The Standard. Last week Ijeoma Dabengwa, the daughter of Zanu PF politburo member, Dumiso Dabengwa, was refused re-entry into the US as she was returning there for a masters degree in business studies. www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/665734/posts   (762 words)

afrika.no - Zimbabwe: Prospects for Zanu PF, MDC talks fade The general feeling within ZANU PF, which has ruled Zimbabwe since independence from Britain in 1980, is that the two parties are currently at sea in terms of their ideologies, hence the talks, just as had happened in the past, are doomed to collapse even before they start. Analysts said the ruling ZANU PF is prepared to drag the issue about the resumption of dialogue with the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) until the party clears the tricky succession issue. “ZANU PF has thrived on causing division within the opposition and it is sad that the MDC has not been as innovative,” said an observer. www.afrika.no /Detailed/4214.html   (964 words)

The Zimbabwe Independent Moyo said Zanu PF was failing to learn from the experiences of other liberation parties in the region, in particular Unip in Zambia, Kanu in Kenya, MCP in Malawi and Tanu (Chama ChamaPinduzi) in Tanzania. Moyo said Zanu PF could still be able to renew itself only if it addresses fundamental flaws in its closed hierarchy and leadership structures in order to “catch up with society”. FORMER Information minister Jonathan Moyo says the ruling Zanu PF is headed for disaster if it does not revamp its leadership and put new blood in its command structures. www.theindependent.co.zw /news/2005/March/Friday4/1773.html   (566 words)

Kubatana - Archive - Zanu PF's latest gimmick: Women - Priscilla Misihairabwi & Grace Kwinjeh - Feb 13, 2005 The patriarchal nature of Zanu PF has ensured that no strong woman in her own right has emerged out of the Zanu PF system before now. The recent history of Zimbabwe is rich with examples of Zanu PF trying to repackage itself to gain national support and international acceptance. During its 24 years in power, and many more years as a party, Zanu PF has routinely neglected and marginalised the women in its ranks and Zimbabwean women as a whole. www.kubatana.net /html/archive/opin/050213pmgk.asp?sector=WOMEN   (1039 words)

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