Zanu PF has shut down all talks on replacing President Robert Mugabe.
Zanu PF secretary for the youth Pupurayi Togarepi says the party will not tolerate President Robert Mugabe’s succession debate in his life time.
Mugabe (91) has been at the helm of Zanu PF since 1975 and has ruled the country since independence in 1980.
The aging leader has never allowed succession debate in the party and has  eliminated anyone who shows interests in  challenging his long stay in power.
Last year the veteran leader with the influence of his overzealous wife Grace expelled his deputy  Joice Mujuru on allegations of plotting to topple him from power.
Togarepi told reporters in Harare recently that  the party  wait for Mugabe to die for them discuss his succession.
“Our youths are given opportunities in politics, and I think you would agree with me that we have so many youths in government and in parliament,”said Togarepi.
“We give these people opportunities not because they are our friends or political allies but we give them as a strategy to learn from the leaders or elders so that when they are given this country tomorrow because there won’t be a platform when we are going to seat down and say now we want to give you the reins of power and here is a ceremony to do it no,” he said.
“As we mix with them, as we talk to them they will learn the skills and they will learn how to do it and there naturally they will fill up the posts as others retire or die”.
“So politically I think we have done well as a political party and as government, we try by all means wherever there are elections for legislature or something that we give youth and give them an opportunity”.