‘Mugabe power grip weakens’

Disclosures by former Zanu PF politburo member Simba Makoni that the current wave of chaos rocking the party was symptomatic of Zanu PF’s failure to deal with leadership renewal seem to add currency to beliefs that President Robert Mugabe could be losing grip on power.

Speaking about the chaos surrounding the recent disbandment of the party’s district co-ordinating committees (DCCs), Makoni — a victim of Zanu PF’s power struggles before he broke ranks with the party to form his own Mavambo/Kusile/Dawn (MKD) project in 2008 — said Zanu PF was not capable of managing change.

Makoni said this in a wide-ranging interview published yesterday in the State-run weekly, The Sunday Mail.

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