Mnangagwa, Tagwirei In Joint Mazowe “Rally”

📅 Published: August 26, 2025

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Instead, it was read as a symbolic gesture that Tagwirei’s political stock is rising, with Mnangagwa seemingly positioning him as a central player in the party’s future while sidelining Chiwenga.

The ruling party’s Zanu PF Patriots account condemned the flier as “highly inappropriate and misleading. ”
“This is a Presidential event, and it is unacceptable to place Cde Tagwirei’s image on the flier — worse still, positioning it above and larger than the President’s.

Such misrepresentation undermines the dignity of the occasion.

We are confident that Cde Tagwirei does not endorse this distortion,” the account posted on X.

The uproar comes against the backdrop of escalating succession battles.

Chiwenga, the general who masterminded the 2017 coup that ushered Mnangagwa into power, has long been considered the natural successor.

But Mnangagwa has steadily worked to curtail his deputy’s influence, instead elevating businessmen, technocrats, and family allies.

Tagwirei — a billionaire fuel tycoon and key financier of Zanu PF — has increasingly blurred the lines between business and politics.

His visible role in state programmes and his rising public profile have unsettled Chiwenga’s military-aligned faction, which sees him as a growing threat to their political leverage. “In Zanu PF politics, symbolism is never neutral,” one political analyst remarked. “Allowing a businessman to dominate the President’s poster sends a clear message — it hints at grooming Tagwirei as a trusted ally and sidelines Chiwenga’s camp. ”
Yet beyond the intrigue, today’s event remains historic.

Mnangagwa is set to hand over 1,000 title deeds — the largest batch since the programme’s launch in December 2024 — and roll out smallholder irrigation kits to boost food security and climate resilience.

Crucially, 70 percent of the beneficiaries are war veterans, a constituency central to Zanu PF’s internal power struggles.

But instead of cementing Mnangagwa’s empowerment credentials, the Mazowe programme has been overshadowed by succession politics.

With Tagwirei’s face looming larger than both the President’s and the absent Vice President’s, the event has come to be seen less as a government programme — and more as a joint Mnangagwa–Tagwirei “rally,” signalling where real influence in the ruling party may be shifting.

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