'Stop purging Mujuru allies,' Grace Mugabe tells Zanu-PF

FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe has told the Zanu-PF politburo to concentrate on more serious issues affecting the country instead of purging party members linked to former Vice-President Joice Mujuru.

According to the Newsday, Grace on Wednesday told the Zanu-PF Women's League national executive council that expulsions and suspensions were now threatening the stability of the ruling party.

"We should unite and stop gossiping about each other. Mudslinging is not a good thing. Let us look forward," Grace told her executive.

"We cannot continue to purge each other and make unfounded allegations. Those who were kicked out were kicked out."

She argued that the party's politburo, which has been used in the past few months or so to expel and suspend top leaders suspected to have been sympathetic to Mujuru, should not be turned into a disciplinary committee.

"We should not burden the politburo with petty issues and if the politburo is to be turned into a kangaroo court, then when is the real work going to be done and by who? The politburo is there to make policies that move the country forward," she said.