'Grace Mugabe for president'

Outgoing Zanu-PF Women's League boss Oppah Muchinguri yesterday stunned the political fraternity when she proposed that first Lady Grace Mugabe succeed President Mugabe as Zimbabwe's head of State.

The proposal came amid ugly factional fights in the party and analysts described it as too farcical to be real and too disturbing to be funny.

Muchinguri also claimed that Grace's supporters had handpicked her to stem the vicious infighting in Zanu-PF, suggesting further that this was the reason why the First Lady needed to succeed her 90 year old husband.

Muchinguri introduced Grace at a rally in Harare as the Queen of Zimbabwe.