Mugabe is the master at divide and rule, he has already divided the Mnangagwa faction!

Do you what the biggest killer amongst the hyenas is? It is not predation as no lion, the hyenas' arch-enemy, will ever go out hunting for hyena. The odd occasion the lion does kill a hyena it will not eat it; another hyena will feast on the carcass, hyenas eat everything with flesh. It you ever see a lion eating a hyena you can be sure of one thing it is half-blind with hunger otherwise one look at that ugly face is enough to make the lion lose its appetite.

The only two other animals that will eat the hyena are vultures and the crocodile, like the hyena they too will eat anything. When these three see food; all their other sense, sight, smell, taste, etc., are supressed the stomach rules. Still neither vultures nor crocodile ever go out hunting hyenas.

The greatest killer of hyenas is stress, yes stress! There is not a moment of peace in the hyena clan; they are always fighting, if it is not for one dozen reasons it for two or three dozen other reasons. Zanu PF is a clan of hyenas in every sense of the word!

Zanu PF has just savagely expelled Mai Mujuru and her supporters, the purge is still unfinished business, and yet already there are reports that those united to ouster Mai Mujuru are now at each other's throat.

Sources close to the developments said a "gang of four" comprising Information minister Jonathan Moyo , Environment minister Saviour Kasukuwere, Higher and Tertiary Education minister Oppah Muchinguri and Mugabe's nephew Patrick Zhuwao had reportedly turned their swords against the freshly-minted acting president. 

The four, who played a crucial role in the ouster of former Vice-President Joice Mujuru, are now reportedly accusing Mnangagwa of letting them down by giving them less influential party and Cabinet positions.

Patrick Zhuwao is nothing but a Grace Mugabe proxy in the gang of four and her claim to the spoils of power is that it was her ruthless - the more so since it was unprovoked - attach on Mai Mujuru that saw the former VP dumped. When Grace announced that she wanted to be president, she was deadly serious and has not given up on that idea.

What makes this a typical hyena fight in it being senseless and futile is the gang of four are after Mnangagwa and not Mugabe. It is the tyrant Mugabe who appointed all the members of the politburo and cabinet; if Mnangagwa was consulted, which I doubt, then rest assured his advice was ignored. So why is the gang attaching Mnangagwa on matters over which he had no control; it does not make any sense. The gang is picking on Mnangagwa, the dragon fly, and not Mugabe, the wasp that stung them; that makes a lot sense in the hyena's world.

Mugabe has kept his position as leader of Zanu PF by playing the divide and rule game. Admittedly it is easy to divide those who are divided to their subatomic level by their mutual greed, loathing, envy and the contemptuous disregard of the law. After destroying the Mujuru faction Mugabe needed to quickly create another faction to counter the Mnangagwa faction which was emerging victorious out of this factional war.

Up to now Jonathan Moyo and Oppar Muchinguri were in the Mnangagwa camp but not anymore. So Mugabe has created a new faction to counter Mnangagwa faction by splitting the Mnangagwa faction itself.

Following the pressure by the Chinese to promote Mnangagwa, Mugabe had no choice but to appoint him VP. He has deliberately demoted the gang of four, in a clear message that if they wanted power, they will have to fight Mnangagwa first. Hunting dogs hunt best when they are hungry and the lead dog, Grace Mugabe, has tasted blood, power, at its sweetest she is obsessed.

When Grace announced that she wanted to be president many dismissed it as a sick joke; she was serious, deadly serious. And now there is no stopping her in a quest to be president.

Professor Jonathan Moyo went out of his way to emphasise that the appointment of Mnangagwa as the first Vice President did not mean he was the one to succeed Mugabe. The public announcement must have been made with Robert Mugabe's full knowledge if not at his instigation; he wanted the gang of four to know that there was a lot still left for them to be fighting for.

Mnangagwa cannot claim to have been popularly elected by anyone since Zanu PF's own electoral process was rigged and so the gang of four feel they too are entitled to as much power as Mnangagwa got; this is what comes of lawlessness.

"At the weekend, a shadowy character Bishop Lazarus attacked Mnangagwa for holding business meetings at his Kwekwe farm and insinuated that he was plotting against Mugabe," reported the Southern Eye. We have not heard the first chapter of the Mujuru plot against Mugabe and already there is yet another plot against the tyrant!

Hyenas have to sleep with one eye open and one ear alert even when they are surrounded by other hyenas from their own clan. After decades in Zanu PF one would think someone like Mnangagwa is used to the mindless infighting in Zanu PF; sadly no, stress is like a headache you never get used to it!