Grace Mugabe sucked into Zanu-PF dog-fights

FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe has been sucked into a fierce political turf war that threatens to end Environment, Water and Climate minister Oppah Muchinguri's career and her stranglehold of Zanu-PF politics in Manicaland Province.

According to the Newsday, Grace's name features prominently in petitions by rival ruling party youths fighting for control of the provincial Youth League structures.

In a petition by suspended youth league provincial leader Kelvin Manyengawana's faction and signed by 26 members of the provincial youth league executive read: "They (Mbuso Chinguno (provincial vice chairman), Victor Saunyama (secretary for administration) and Rinashe Chinamasa (secretary for security) have caused divisions and undermined the authority of the First Lady and secretary for Women's Affairs by lying that they have been instructed by the First Lady to remove part of our executive members."

Chinguno, Saunyama and Chinamasa were suspended.