War Vets Block Grace Mugabe from Presidency | BREAKING NEWS
11 December 2015
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By Henry L Ncube| WAR Veterans have moved to block Grace Mugabe from succeeding her aging husband President Robert Mugabe as both the Zanu PF and country’s President.
A faction called G-40 which comprises Mugabe’s nephews Philip Chiyangwa and Patrick Zhuwao, Higher and Tertiary Education Minister Jonathan Moyo, Local Government Minister Saviour Kasukuwere had been calling for Grace to be the President.
They were fighting against the party’s constitution which says the first vice President automatically occupies the office of the President should Mugabe die anytime before the holding of national elections.
But liberation war fighters attending the party’s annual conference in Victoria Falls yesterday made it clear that Grace, should remain where she is up “to 2018 and beyond”, suggesting they would not back her as party leader.
Grace is the party’s Women’s League boss.
Japhet Phuti, the ZNLWVA(Zimbabwe National Liberation War Veterans Association) secretary said the party’s constitution should be amended and accommodate a female in the Presidium and urged that the female should be Ndebele, a clause that pushes Mrs Mugabe out of the picture.
“We also support the women’s league statement, that women should have a quota in the presidium and be maintained on rotational basis and now should go to Ex-ZAPU/ZIPRA members,” said Phuthi.