Mugabe will lose in 2018, says Jabulani Sibanda

Fearless former war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda has predicted that President Robert Mugabe and his ruling Zanu-PF will lose the country's 2018 national elections hands down.

Speaking in an interview yesterday, Sibanda said the level of factionalism and anarchy in Zanu-PF, coupled with the failing health of Mugabe and his controversial wife Grace, meant that it was impossible that Zanu-PF could win a free and fair election- more so as the party operated on the misplaced notion that elections were won on voting day.

The outspoken war veteran leader also accused the Zanu-PF leadership of manipulating the party's constitution ahead of the disputed December 2014 congress "for the sole purpose of purging" some long-serving officials.

He said by doing so the party had been severely weakened as "the electoral college for the congress which was disregarded constituted the party's main support base".

"So if you ask me whether the party will triumph in 2018, the answer is simple. With other political parties out there, the so-called (Zanu-PF) big sharks will realise that they are actually kapenta in the ocean," the brutally candid Sibanda said.