Mnangagwa can succeed Mugabe

Zanu-PF's factional fights neared boiling point at the weekend when war veterans sympathetic to Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa threw down the gauntlet and declared that there was nothing wrong in the Midlands godfather succeeding President Robert Mugabe.

The war veterans also challenged the G40, whom they described as "traitors and treasure-hunters", to provide police with irrefutable evidence that Mnangagwa's political ambitions were a threat to Mugabe's security, or risk being arrested for causing alarm and despondency.

They accused Zanu-PF commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere, Makonde MP Kindness Paradza, Public Service minister Prisca Mupfumira and women's league finance secretary, Sarah Mahoka of raising false alarm over Mugabe's security, as part of a wider plot to dethrone and replace him with "their G40 stooge without liberation war credentials".