Grace Mugabe to decide Didymus Mutasa's fate

First Lady Grace Mugabe will preside over the disciplinary hearing for disgraced former party secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa.

This follows the decision of the highly-anticipated Zanu-PF politburo meeting which was chaired by President Robert Mugabe in Harare yesterday.

Party spokesperson Simon Khaya Moyo told journalists that Mugabe had appointed his wife to sit on the Zanu-PF disciplinary panel tasked with Mutasa's case.

He defended Grace's inclusion, saying it was the norm that the secretaries for the women and youth leagues should be part of the disciplinary committee.

Other members of the panel are Zanu-PF national commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, secretary for legal affairs Patrick Chinamasa, secretary for security Kembo Mohadi and Pupurai Togarepi.

Mutasa has threatened to seek legal nullification of the ruling party's December elective congress resolution.