Mugabe told to reform the military now by Biti

President Robert Mugabe's admission that the country's securocrats are deeply involved in the ruling Zanu-PF party's leadership struggles is enough reason for security sector reform, the Tendai Biti-led People's Democratic Party (PDP) has said.

PDP secretary for defence Tawanda Bvumo said his party was worried that if the service chiefs were this interested in party political leadership wrangles, "how much more would they be involved in State power dynamics?".

Mugabe, in his address to the Zanu-PF annual conference in Victoria Falls last week, revealed to delegates that the country's military, intelligence and police were divided along factional lines.

PDP alleged Mugabe at the conference demeaned genuine war veterans who sacrificed a lot for the liberation of the country and many, who have since quit active politics due to the party's "deviation from the liberation ethos"