‘Mugabe loses grip on Zanu PF’

PRESIDENT ROBERT Mugabe is slowly, but surely, losing his grip on Zanu PF, judging by the way senior party members are disregarding his passionate calls for peace and tolerance, political analysts have said.

The analysts told NewsDay yesterday that Mugabe was evidently losing his stranglehold on the party, as his peace calls continue to fall on deaf ears, with party heavyweights singing from a completely different hymn book.

The latest evidence of defiance was at the Independence Day celebrations on Thursday where Media, Information and Publicity minister Webster Shamu vowed that no “pencil will take away the country brought up by a gun”.

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