Mugabe emerges stronger as conspirators fail to deliver coup

THE Zanu PF leader President Robert Mugabe appears to have regained controlled of his chaotic party as those linked to the plot to oust him, or alternatively to kill him seem to have been busted off.

Before that, there were apocalyptic predictions of every hue from all manner of "analysts" who have made a hobbyhorse of telling how the centre can no longer hold, that party leader, President Mugabe has lost control and how the party is either near collapse and will soon implode.

The experience of the MDC was used as a precedent although more often than not, the predictions were more of a prayer than a factual analysis. It's all come to naught.

President Mugabe, quite the contrary, appears to have emerged from the chaos much stronger.

Vice President Mujuru and her allies have skipped three politburo meetings in what analysts says it is an indicator that they have lost the battle

When the real war for the mind and soul broke out, VP Mujuru was found to be no more than a paper tiger. She could not throw a single punch, let alone cause a corporeal split of the party.

The result, as it turns out now, is that the pre-congress struggles have been some purgatory for the party.