AS ZANU-PF CELEBRATE POLL VICTORY, A SUCCESSION CRISES IS LOOMING -ACCORDING TO REPORTS Zanu PF party has shifted to the succession battle which is said to pit top lieutenants, vice president Joice Mujuru against defence minister Emmerson Mnangagwa. “The succession issue remains a challenge to the party,” Patrick Chinamasa, a Zanu PF politburo member and justice minister, said last week. But there are “too many tensions and divisions for Mugabe to step down,” International Crisis Group researcher Trevor Maisiri said. “The succession battle is going to be more intense than it was before.” Both Mujuru and Mnangagwa have been in Mugabe’s cabinet since independence in 1980. Legally Mujuru, 58, is first in line to succeed Mugabe. Mugabe’s choice of who sits in his new cabinet in the coming says should indicate which faction has the upper hand. For the full report zim247/
Posted on: Mon, 12 Aug 2013 06:18:49 +0000
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