Grace Golden Girls foment Zanu-PF wars

A new group comprising four senior Zanu-PF women's league officials that has been christened Grace's Golden Girls is zealously campaigning for the controversial First Lady and apparently escalating the ruling party's deadly factional fights in the process.

Well placed Zanu-PF sources yesterday claimed that following the brutal purging of former VP Joice Mujuru from the party at the behest of the First Lady had moved to consolidate her position in the Women's League by setting up the group.

Meanwhile, War Veterans minister Chris Mutsvangwa yesterday tore into the so-called G40 group of Young Turks in Zanu-PF warning the ruling party's old guard would deal with them mercilessly in order to stop them from usurping power from President Robert Mugabe.

G40 is a Zanu-PF faction reportedly fronted by Local Government minister Saviour Kasukuwere and Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo and is believed to be battling Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the race to succeed Mugabe.

In an interview with a South Africa television news channel yesterday ANN7TV, Mutsvangwa said the G40 was led by an errant professor and described it as made up of "nauseating lunatics, diversionists and misguided power-hungry clowns".