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Grace Mugabe still in the mix
23 Nov 2015 at 08:16hrs | Views
A the post-congress Zanu PF hurtles towards its crucial annual conference to be held in Victoria Falls early next month, amid the party's worsening amid the party's worsening factional and succession wars.
First Lady Grace Mugabe has left the door open for her supporters to push for a return of the women's quota system in the former liberation movement.
Sources said President Mugabe's increasingly influential wife told a closed door party meeting that preceded her rally in the Harare suburb of Mbare last Thursday that "it was up to women to push for the return of the quota system.
Meanwhile, Grace Mugabe hinted that President Robert Mugabe could name an outsider to succeed him as she warned the veteran ruler's lieutenants against becoming too ambitious.
Grace's revelations provide the first insight into Mugabe's succession plans as he has kept the matter close to his chest.
They came a few hours after his wife heaped praise on Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa at a rally in his Midlands Province stronghold that led some to speculate she was on his side.
Grace is rumoured to belong to a faction known as G40 that is pushing for her ascendancy, or a compromise candidate once Mugabe decides to relinquish power.
She said that those who believed they were close to succeeding the 91-year-old leader were fooling themselves.
First Lady Grace Mugabe has left the door open for her supporters to push for a return of the women's quota system in the former liberation movement.
Sources said President Mugabe's increasingly influential wife told a closed door party meeting that preceded her rally in the Harare suburb of Mbare last Thursday that "it was up to women to push for the return of the quota system.
Meanwhile, Grace Mugabe hinted that President Robert Mugabe could name an outsider to succeed him as she warned the veteran ruler's lieutenants against becoming too ambitious.
Grace's revelations provide the first insight into Mugabe's succession plans as he has kept the matter close to his chest.
They came a few hours after his wife heaped praise on Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa at a rally in his Midlands Province stronghold that led some to speculate she was on his side.
Grace is rumoured to belong to a faction known as G40 that is pushing for her ascendancy, or a compromise candidate once Mugabe decides to relinquish power.
She said that those who believed they were close to succeeding the 91-year-old leader were fooling themselves.
Source - Daily News
