HARARE – She was once Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s favourite. Welcoming Joice Mujuru to the vice presidency at a ruling Zanu-PF party congress in 2004, Mugabe suggested she could aim even “higher”. Exactly ten years later, the fortunes of the 59-year-old former guerrilla fighter are being humiliatingly reversed. Mugabe’s young wife Grace — who stood next to Mujuru on the University of Zimbabwe podium as the pair were awarded PhDs in September — has told the vice president she “stinks”, in one of a long list of increasingly fantastical insults lodged in the past two months. As Mugabe officially opens a Zanu-PF congress in Harare on Thursday, Mujuru looks almost certain to lose her post and any hope — for now –of succeeding the 90-year-old president. Joice “Spillblood” (her wartime name) Mujuru was Zimbabwe’s youngest minister in a post-independence cabinet appointed by Mugabe after elections in 1980.
Posted on: Thu, 04 Dec 2014 22:01:16 +0000
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