The Insider

Former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions secretary-general Wellington Chibhebhe said if Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeded President Robert Mugabe, he was likely to proclaim a new era of reform, preach national unity, reach out to international institutions, allow former ZANU-PF leaders to retire in comfort, and receive the relieved support of the international community- while proceeding to annihilate the opposition at the same time.

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Former Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions president Lovemore Matombo was on Monday finally kicked out of the labour movement and has been forbidden from masquerading as a ZCTU official and using its name and property including letterheads or holding meetings in the name of the ZCTU.

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Tapiwa Mashakada has seen a lot of ups and downs in his political career. Though an economist, Mashakada has had a long history with the labour movement and has worked with Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai in one way or another since the beginning of the 1990s, first in the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions and later in the Movement for Democratic Change. He is in fact considered one of those in the so-called kitchen cabinet of Tsvangirai. There are only six Wikileaks cables on Mashakada, but they do not give a complete picture of the man. Here they are:

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Politburo member Emmerson Mnangagwa expressed dismay at why the land reform programme was so chaotic in Mashonaland and Matabeleland North since the policy was clear- one man one farm.

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Ghana’s High Commissioner to Zimbabwe, Kwasi Baah-Boakye, told United States ambassador to Zimbabwe Joseph Sullivan that Ghanaians linked to the First Family, through President Robert Mugabe’s first wife, Sally, had told him that Mugabe was beginning to explore the possibility of stepping down.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader told a Visiting United States official that President Robert Mugabe was able to hang on to power because of hardliners like Emmerson Mnangagwa whom he described as the heir apparent.

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Former Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front politburo member Sikhanyiso Ndlovu told United States embassy officials that Emmerson Mnangagwa was a party hardliner through and through and was disliked by his colleagues in the politburo because of his ruthlessness.

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Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai said there was no room for life presidents in Zimbabwe and promised to step down as party leader after Zimbabweans liberated themselves from the current dictatorship.

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