Mugabe's 'daughter' officially launches party to oppose Mugabe

Zimbabwe's former Vice President Joice Mujuru has launched a new political party to challenge long-serving President Robert Mugabe.

She was sacked by Mr Mugabe in 2014.

Mujuru was expelled from the governing Zanu-PF in 2015, but she says she is not returning to that party.

"I will not go back to ZANU PF and I'm neither a witch nor an assassin. It's there for all to see," said Mujuru.


Mujuru officially launched Zimbabwe People First.

• She has long experience in government as she became a cabinet member at independence in 1980, when she was its youngest member
• She left school at the age of 18 to join the war of independence and adopted the name Teurai Ropa (Spill Blood)
• She claims to have shot down a Rhodesian helicopter with the machine-gun of a dying comrade and was later promoted to commander
• After spending her youth fighting the war, she obtained secondary school qualifications and a degree while in government
• She became vice president in 2004 and was sacked in 2014