President Mugabe Of Zimbabwe Sacks Vice-President Mujuru Zimbabwes President Robert Mugabe has fired his deputy Joice Mujuru, days after she lost her post in the ruling party, offficials said. Mugabe sacked Mujuru on Tuesday and was expected to name a new cabinet, officials cited by the Reuters news agency said. The sources, who declined to be named because they are not authorised to speak to the news media, said Mujuru had received her dismissal letter on Monday night after weeks of accusations that she had led a treacherous cabal to try to unseat Mugabe. Al Jazeera Haru Mutasa, reporting from the capital Harare, said Mugabe says he has evidence that Mujuru met with US officials, and in this meeting they plotted a plan to try and remove him from office. Supporters of ZANU-PF are concerned that there could be a split [in the party]. They know that Mujuru has been a member of the party for many years - even before independence from British rule in 1980, said our correspondent. She does have a following - a lot of women supporters thought that she would perhaps be the first woman president of Zimbabwe one day, should Mugabe step down. Mujuru on Tuesday blamed a well-orchestrated smear campaign and gross abuse of state apparatus that led to the loss of her ruling party post and shook Zimbabwean politics, the AFP news agency reported. Mujuru, who once looked likely to succeed long-ruling Mugabe, has been accused of plotting to assassinate the 90-year-old and removed from the ruling ZANU-PF partys central committee. She said she was being victimised after exposing infiltrators conspiring to destroy the party, which has ruled the country since independence in 1980. I have become the fly in the web of lies whose final objective is the destruction of ZANU-PF and what it stands for and ultimately the present government, Mujuru said in a statement. A vociferous attempt has been made to portray me as a traitor, murderer and sellout, yet no iota of evidence has been produced to give credence to the allegations. ZANU-PF held an elective congress last week which endorsed Mugabe as president and his wife Grace as head of the womens wing. -
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