President Robert Mugabe on Saturday publicly denounced Vice President Emerson Mnangagwa and his faction of “arrogant war veterans” and backed the G-40 making it clear that the aging leader wants his wife Grace to succeed him.
Mnanagwa’s allies who include war veterans minister Chris Mutsvangwa have been calling for the demotion of Saviour Kasukuwere from leading the party’s commissariat department because he “has” no liberation war credentials.
Kasukuwere,Philip Chiyangwa, Patrick Zhuwao and Johnathan Moyo are leading the G-40 which is campaigning for Grace to succeed Mugabe.
Mugabe at the just ended Zanu PF conference in Victoria Falls said war veterans alone did not liberate the country.
“Some people brag to others, I am so and so, I went to war and you did not go, nonsense. Stop bragging with your war credentials.  Some will ask you, did you go alone, or what did you do there?” said Cde Mugabe, adding that the party respects war veterans.
Mugabe praised the self styled war veteran  Joseph Chinotimba, who he used to denounce and expel the former war vet leader Jabulani Sibanda describing him as a an example of a humble, disciplined and progressive war veteran.