Mugabe to name presidium

The Zanu-PF First Secretary and President, Robert Mugabe is expected to name the party's second secretaries and Vice Presidents during an extra-ordinary Central Committee session at the party's headquarters today.

Mugabe is also expected to name the party's national chairperson and 21 heads of department and their deputies and five committee members.

In terms of the amended Zanu-PF constitution, the President is allowed to appoint 21 heads of department.

He has the leeway to add or subtract the appointments as he sees fit.

The extra-ordinary Central Committee meeting is in line with Mugabe's promise during his closing remarks during the just ended 6th Zanu-PF National People's Congress.

During the run-up to the congress, many heavyweights linked to the infamous plot to illegally oust Mugabe from power led by fired Vice President Joice Mujuru were rejected by their constituencies and failed to make it into the Central Committee.

Some of them have since been dismissed from cabinet while others with pending cases are expected to follow once their cases are finalised.

The appointed heads of department and committee members will sit in the leaner Politburo with the first and second secretaries and the national chairperson.

Deputies will not sit in the Politburo in terms of the new constitution which has now seen power being centralised around the President and First Secretary as part of efforts to eliminate factionalism which had become rife in the party due to multiple centres of power.