Zanu PF grabs school buses for million man march

THE ruling Zanu PF party has been accused of disrupting educational activities around the country after ministers ordered schools to handover buses for the so-called 'million-men march'.

Party youths will march in Harare in support of the 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe who was, over the past week, away in Singapore with his family following the birth of his grandson.

The demonstration appears to be a response to the recent jobs protest staged in the capital by opposition MDC-T leader and former prime minister Morgan Tsvangirai.

It is also suspected to be directed at a ruling faction said to be fed up with Mugabe who refuses to step down even as he struggles with failing health and other challenges that come with old age.

The march has been widely condemned by opposition parties which say it is incredible that the ruling party is celebrating its ruinous three-decade-plus stranglehold on power since independence in 1980.