Jonathan Moyo, Mutsvangwa fight over Grace Mugabe

War Veterans minister Christopher Mutsvangwa has all but admitted his fight with Higher Education minister Jonathan Moyo was over monopolizing First Lady Grace Mugabe.

In a wide-ranging interview in Kariba last week, Mutsvangwa launched an unrestrained attack on Moyo and Zanu-PF political commissar Saviour Kasukuwere, accusing them of being funded by ex-Rhodesians now resident in Cape Town, South Africa, to destabilize Zanu-PF.

He claimed Moyo was the leader of a Zanu-PF faction called G40 that is tussling for power with another faction allegedly led by Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa in the party's succession wars.
 
"They (G40) are now even trying to take away First Lady Grace Mugabe from us, but they will not succeed because she will come back to us, as we are committed to the struggle, Zanu-PF and President Robert Mugabe," Mutsvangwa said.

"G40 is real and was formed by Moyo. And how can we deny something that has been penned by Moyo himself when he says he is referring to an age group. But why do they discriminate war veterans? He knows he can manipulate young people where he can be their patriarch, but he cannot do that to experienced war veterans because they are people who can question him."

Moyo did not respond to text messages and an email sent to him on Thursday.