Grace chides Mnangagwa plotters

FIRST Lady Grace Mugabe yesterday poured cold water on reported plans to force an early Zanu PF congress to push for a female Vice-President, saying the incumbents — Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko — will finish their terms of office.

Zanu PF is sharply divided into two camps with the G40 faction, which is reportedly loyal to Grace, pushing for Mnangagwa’s ouster, while a rival camp sympathetic to the VP was backing him to succeed 92-year-old President Robert Mugabe.

In a surprise change of tack, Grace told the women’s league national assembly meeting in Harare that she fully supported Mnangagwa as she chided top officials plotting his ouster.

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