G40 campaigns for Madzongwe

Zanu-PF bigwigs opposed to embattled Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa succeeding President Mugabe have vowed that a woman will return to the ruling party's powerful presidium this year, most likely at his expense.

Party officials linked to the Young Turks known as the Generation 40 (G40) said Senate President Edna Madzongwe, and not First Lady Grace Mugabe, was likely to be the woman VP.

They also said that it is now a question of when in 2016, not whether there will be a woman VP.

Last December's Zanu-PF congress set a clear deadline that 2016 would be the year that gender parity would be realized in the presidium.