Mugabe pacifies Zanu-PF factions

President Robert Mugabe has allegedly manipulated Zanu-PF's warring factions by playing them against each other after he appointed Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and secretary for legal affairs, Patrick Chinamasa to draft the appeals' procedure to facilitate reviewing cases of members suspended and expelled by rival G40 faction led by First Lady Grace Mugabe.

Most of the aggrieved party members belonged to Mnangagwa's Team Lacoste faction who were booted out of the party on allegations of fanning factionalism. The suspended members had claimed that they were unlikely to get a fair hearing from an appeals panel led by Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko, an alleged G40 functionary.

The suspended members had claimed that they were unlikely to get a fair hearing from an appeals panel led by Vice-President Phelekezela Mphoko, an alleged G40 functionary.