TEMPERS flared at a tense Zanu PF politburo meeting on Wednesday after President Robert Mugabe's simmering succession crisis exploded into a charged debate, with some senior party officials demanding for the first time that the party must sort out the issue once and for all.
Well placed sources said the unprecedented debate on Mugabe's succession -- which was postponed to Thursday next week after officials failed to agree on the way forward -- left senior party leaders shocked and sensing the beginning of the unravelling of the divisive issue threatening to be the former ruling party's burial ground.
| Getting named as successor is prob'ly a good way to end up in that burial ground. |
However, a fierce battle still looms as Mugabe remains determined to hang onto power at all costs by retaining the party leadership for another five years at their congress from December 8-13. This move could leave Zanu PF facing a real danger of a split along its factional and ethnic fault lines.
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