His is not the only major faction in ZANU-PF but since the other  that of presidential wife Grace Mugabe  is entirely dependent on her husband's prestige  nobody believes it has a long-term future...
 Grace Mugabe is head of the ZANU-PF Women's League and can call on the loyalty of the G-40 faction  which has much to lose from a Mnangagwa presidency...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The land was taken by presidential wife Grace Mugabe in order to expand a multi-million-dollar orphanage and boarding school she had built at Iron Mask Farm on land expropriated from John and Eva Matthews in 2002...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Although Mugabe has now openly backed the Generation 40 faction led by his wife  Grace Mugabe  the military have indicated that they will not allow the group to take over power...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Mnangagwa's network is also under attack as senior ZANU-PF members eliminate any resistance to First Lady Grace Mugabe  even though no major leaders have any confidence in her political skills  let alone her ability to lead the party in the absence of her husband  President Robert Mugabe...
         Mugabe reins in the Grace faction President Robert Mugabe's wife  Grace Mugabe née Marufu  is agitating with the Generation 40 (G40) faction for a final push against Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his supporters...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      The new party currently consists of ZANU-PF heavyweights  the majority of whom fell in a purge instigated by President Robert Mugabe's wife  Grace Mugabe  who accused Mujuru of plotting to topple her husband from power unconstitutionally...
  ZANU-PF remains riven with factionalism  which is now pitting Grace Mugabe (née Marufu) against Emmerson Mnangagwa (AC Vol 56 No 9  So far  so bad & Vol 56 No 23  Grace plots for power)...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     The plan is for First Lady Grace Mugabe née Marufu to replace Mnangagwa and so position herself as her husband's likeliest successor  ZANU-PF insiders told Africa Confidential...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	      Factionalism is going to become even more dominant unless Grace Mugabe's undermining of the two Vice-Presidents  Emmerson Mnangagwa and Phelekezela Mphoko  is reined in...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     'I know Mnangagwa was summoned to a meeting and told that he would have to rally behind Grace Mugabe in 2018...
' The plot for Grace Mugabe to succeed her husband is plausible  mostly because the extended Mugabe family could lose its influence and property under any other ruler  say independent sources in Harare...
 The Zezuru are a sub-clan of the Shona to which Robert and Grace Mugabe belong...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     Movement for Democratic Change-Tsvangirai's Nelson Chamisa dubbed the reliance on sometimes dodgy telecommunications as 'government by wi-fi'  a punning jibe at the increasingly assertive First Lady  Grace Mugabe...
	 
    
    
    
    
        
	
	     They had claimed they were acting with the approval of First Lady Grace Mugabe...