Tsvangirai's ally misses Grace Mugabe's rallies

MDC women's assembly leader Lynette Karenyi is distressed by the long silence of her garrulous counterpart, Zanu-PF women's league honcho First Lady Grace Mugabe.

Karenyi said Grace was doing a good job preparing the electoral ground for her party's sweeping victory.

Addressing a belated International Women's Day commemoration at Watsomba Business Centre on Saturday, Karenyi said the chatty first lady has been so effective in destabilising the governing party that she always looked forward to her hugely divisive rallies.

"Let her go around the country verbally abusing her fellow senior party officials. She is working our ground. Each time I open the newspaper and don't read about her ranting, I'm distressed," Karenyi said.

She also took a dig at former Vice President Joice Mujuru, questioning her sincerity in joining the existing opposition ranks.

"We don't hate Joice but we are saying how many years have you been in cabinet with this person? How sincere are you to now confess that (Morgan) Tsvangirai was robbed of an electoral victory? Why did you not act then?" Karenyi asked rhetorically.

"A serpent's offspring is a serpent and it will never be a calf," Karenyi said as she tore into Mujuru.

She however, said her party should continue to build for an electoral victory by mobilising new voters and ensuring that they register for the watershed 2018 plebiscite.