Mugabe's Zanu-PF in major climbdown

Zanu-PF has reportedly climbed down on the tough election guidelines recently set ahead of the December elective congress, with reports that a committee has been appointed to re-look at the new criteria.  

The ruling party last week announced a raft of the election rules and regulations that will see members who have not served for 15 consecutive years barred from contesting central committee and women's league positions ahead of the congress.

Five of the 15 years should have been served in the party's provincial structures.

But party sources said Zanu-PF legal affairs secretary and Justice minister Emmerson Mnangagwa was tasked by President Robert Mugabe to amend the rules to contain the simmering dissent within party structures.