'Mugabe is a scared man'

Former minister Didymus Mutasa is running scared despite maintaining a façade of bravado and resoluteness in public, in the face of the open revolt to his misrule by his former trusted senior lieutenants as well as the deteriorating economic climate in the country.

Mutasa said the nonagenarian was "scared stiff of people power", as well as the prospects of losing his position.

He added that if hard pressed Zimbabweans became more resolute and properly organised themselves to mount major protests over the country's worsening political and economic crises, there was no doubt that they would manage to pressurise the long-ruling leader to reform because he was "scared of losing his position".

He went on to criticise the Zanu-PF economic policies, saying they made a very few people rich.

He said he could not complain much earlier as he was part of the system, but now that he is on the outside, he is now able to.