Vice President Joseph Msika of Zimbabwe

Cde Msika described President Mugabe as an unwavering leader as he had not deviated from his determination to see Zimbabweans repossess their land and heritage which saw him leaving the teaching profession in Ghana to join other nationalists in Zimbabwe.

Cde Msika said he had no presidential ambitions and was content with the Vice President's post.

On 5 March 2005, Msika was taken into hospital after collapsing at home, apparently having suffered a stroke and a blood clot in his head.

Msika said four people were approached, namely Enoch Dumbutshena, Stanlake Samkange, Joshua Nkomo and Mwanaka.

Zimbabwean Vice President Joseph Msika has warned the British government against demonizing President Robert Mugabe, saying that it would not help mend the already strained bilateral relations, The Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday.

Britain, US accused of concocting lies about ZimbabweZimbabwean Vice President Joseph Msika has accused the British and American governments of concocting lies about Zimbabwe.

Addressing thousands of Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) supporters at Chenhuhwe business center in Masvingo Central, Msika said the British and the American allies were currently demonizing Zimbabwe over the issue of lack of democracy and the rule of law yet Zimbabwe was one of the best emerging democracies in Africa.

Msika said the British government had no legal and moral right to lecture Zimbabwe on human rights because independence only came after a bitter and protracted war of liberation.

Msika said although Mugabe apologised, he did not proffer an explanation for the atrocities when taken to task by former Zapu members.

Msika said he was not convinced with the apology for the death of about 20 000 men, women and children in Matabeleland and the Midlands.

Msika was speaking last Saturday at a ceremony organised by the Mafela Trust to commemorate the killing of 11 Zimbabwe Peoples Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA) cadres in Jotsholo in 1979 by Rhodesian soldiers.

Talking about the 1987 Unity Accord, Msika is said to have noted that Mugabe shot down suggestions for a new name for the merged party.

Msika said for the sake of unity, the late Vice President Joshua Nkomo had the final say: "Whats in a name?" he asked.

Herald ReporterVice President Joseph Msika is the Acting President in the absence of President Mugabe who left for the Far East on Monday on a private visit.

During his absence, the Honourable Vice President Joseph Msika is Acting President," the Minister of Information and Publicity Dr Sikhanyiso Ndlovu said in a statement yesterday.

Msika said he was not happy with the implementation of the land reform as it was not in line with what had been outlined in the land reform policy document.

Vice President Joseph Msika is the first to take the oaths during a brief ceremony that was witnessed by several cabinet ministers and deputies.

Until the presidents return to duty, Vice-President Joseph Msika was in charge of the country.

by the government of Zimbabwe Harare VICE PRESIDENT Cde Joseph Msika is Acting President for the duration of President Mugabes traditional annual month-long leave, part of which will be spent outside Zimbabwe.

Msika is the co-vice president and second secretary of ZANU-PF while Nkomo is the national chairman.

Harare/Johannesburg - Zimbabwean Vice President Joseph Msika has warned that businesses in the country will suffer if they fail to stock their shelves with goods, reports said Wednesday.

Harare/Johannesburg - Zimbabwe's controversial land reform programme was chaotic, Vice President Joseph Msika has admitted in a rare criticism of the campaign by a government official.

Until the president's return, Vice President Joseph Msika was in charge of the country.

Until the President’s return, Vice President Joseph Msika was the Acting President.

Msika was a member of the delegation to the Lancaster House Agreement that forged independence for Zimbabwe.

Joseph Msika said no-one was so far challenging Mugabe's bid to seek a sixth consecutive term and urged supporters to endorse him at a ruling party congress in the capital Harare next month.

The premise of my argument that Vice President Msika was on his way out and using deductive logic that President Mugabe was also on his way out has now been rebutted by Vice President Msika in an article entitled: VP Msika to remain in active politics that was published by the Herald's sister publication, the Chronicle, on September 28, 2007.

VP Msika praised Mimosa Mining Company for ploughing back to the local community while President Mugabe in New York was castigating the West for seeking to maintain hegemony over Zimbabwean resources saying: The West still negates our sovereignties by way of control of our resources, in the process making US mere chattels in our own lands, mere minders of its trans-national interests.

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We will not allow shelves to be empty,\' Msika was quoted by the official Herald daily as saying at a meeting in Nyanga on Monday.

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Harare, Aug 20, 2007 (AFP) Zimbabwe's Deputy President Joseph Msika has urged people to turn to traditional food for survival and denied there was starvation in the impoverished country, a state newspaper reported.

We have an array of traditional foods in Zimbabwe and I do not see how someone can say we are starving, Msika was quoted as saying by the state-run Herald during an official opening of the provincial Mazowe Valley Agricultural show.

Msika said he watched in shock on one of the international television channels, a Zimbabwean woman who had escaped hunger into neighbouring South Africa purporting there was mass starvation and critical unemployment in the country.

Msika said western countries may attack Zimbabwe in any manner they wish, but Zimbabweans would remain resolute.

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VP Msika said that Tsvangirai would try and reverse the changes in the country since independence were he to triumph in the ballot.

VICE-PRESIDENT Joseph Msika has distanced himself from claims by sections of the media that he was leading the revival of PF Zapu together with former Zipra supremo Dumiso Dabengwa.

Msika said that he was insulted by the invitation to address a Zipra meeting at White City Stadium on December 1, which was meant to revive PF Zapu.

Msika said resigned provincial chairperson, Mr Mcleod Tshawe, had something to do with the plan to trap him.

Msika said the reason to join Zanu PF in a unity deal was taken by all PF-Zapu structures.

Cde Msika said efforts to revive PF Zapu were based on ignorance of what the party stood for.

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Sources told the Zimbabwe Independent that Msika was dispatched to Bulawayo by Zanu PF in a bid to prevent the rebels from leaving the party, but most of them did not turn up for the meeting.

Msika took a swipe at Dabengwa and the outgoing Zanu PF Bulawayo provincial chairperson Macleod Tshawe for having allegedly attempted to trap him to attend a meeting at White City Stadium last month where the revival of PF Zapu was to be announced.

Zimbabwe Vice-President Joseph Msika has once again publicily backed former Zanu PF member Dumiso Dabengwa who is leading calls to revive PF Zapu and abandon the 1987 Unity Accord.

Vice-President Msika is said to have told members of the Zanu PF district co-ordinating committee that Dabengwa was an authentic PF Zapu cadre and should not be vilified for his decision to abandon the ruling party.

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Vice-President Joseph Msika has once again publicly backed former Home Affairs minister Dumiso Dabengwa who is leading calls to revive PF Zapu and abandon the 1987 Unity Accord.

VICE President Joseph Msika has said voting for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party is akin to voting for war as 'trouble will start if whites take advantage of that.

OPPOSITION Movement for Democratic Change leader, Morgan Tsvangirai is the worst sell-out to emerge from Africa in the continent's entire history, according to Vice President Joseph Msika.

VICE PRESIDENT Cde Joseph Msika is Acting President for the duration of President Mugabe's traditional annual month-long leave, part of which will be spent outside Zimbabwe.

Vice President Joseph Msika said in a statement: "Government has identified an additional 2,237 properties to yield a total of 3,041 farms measuring just above five million hectares [19,000 square miles) which are now at various advanced stages of processing for gazetting, acquisition and resettlement.

In launching the programme two weeks ago, Vice President Joseph Msika said the government's immediate target was to acquire 20 farms per province.

ministries while Msika is one ofthe two vice-presidents.

far-reaching implications for Zimbabwefor a long time to come.

Responding to the allegations last night, acting president Joseph Msika said the allegations were inspired by malice, as he had not engaged in any such unscrupulous activities.

Vice-president Joseph Msika has described as "immoral little boys" government and Zanu PF officials advocating the violent seizure of productive horticultural farms across the country.

In an interview with the Zimbabwe Independent this week, Msika said he decided to drop the contentious issue of Kondozi Farm in Odzi after consulting with President Mugabe.

The tough-talking Msika said he would fight anyone who dares set foot on productive horticultural concerns, saying these were vital to the nation's livelihood.