By late 2014, her faction dominated the cabinet, controlled most of the top positions in ZANU(PF) and ran nine out of the 10 provincial councils, which elect the party’s leadership. Later that year, ...

They tore pictures ... Mugabe sacked Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa last week, apparently to pave the way for Grace Mugabe, who is four decades younger than him, to take over the presidency ...

Grace "will be the next president of Zanu PF when Mugabe goes", Tendai Biti, MP for the opposition Movement for Democratic Change told the Daily Telegraph, suggesting that this has always been ...

1974 - Mugabe is released from jail and travels to Mozambique to lead the party's guerrilla movement. Zanu has now merged with the Patriotic Front party to form Zanu-PF. 1975 - Rhodesia's ...

His wife Grace ... said Mugabe's wish before he died was to be buried in Kutama and not the National Heroes Acre monument in the capital, where Mnangagwa and the ruling ZANU-PF party had sought ...

He was referring to the fact that one faction of Zanu-PF, led by sacked Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa, has ousted another, which had coalesced around Mr Mugabe's and his wife Grace.

Jan Raath writes on the historical background to the current struggle for control of Zanu-PF Part one. The marshalling of the ... Reward Marufu, the brother of Grace Mugabe, claimed 99 percent, ...