Mugabe lavishes Grace with praise

Speaking to the ZBC in his ritual birthday interview last Friday, as powerful first lady grace Mugabe was roasting Zanu-PF bigwigs in Buhera for dreaming about succession of her husband, president Robert Mugabe banished for good the worshipers within sections of the warring former liberation movement that she sometimes operates without his blessing.

Mugabe also backed her to succeed and to hold her own in the deeply divided ruling party making it clear in the process that he has been mentoring and guiding her all along as Zanu-PF's deadly tribal factional and successional wars have become more intractable.

He also moved to support his decision to allow the first lady to enter lady to enter politics in his interview with the state broadcaster drawing parallel's with the role that his late first wife sally who also led the women's league had played.