Grace Ntombizodwa Mugabe

Former Deputy Presidents under Robert Mugabe Joice Mujuru and Phelekezela Mphoko attended as did former first lady Grace Mugabe and her family...

They grew close during Interfresh's successful legal battle for US$27m in compensation after half of its citrus estate was grabbed by President Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe in 2013 (AC Vol 55 No 7 Grace under fire)...

The last congress in 2014 saw the meteoric rise of first lady Grace Mugabe and her G40 clique of Young Turks and the culling of men and women associated with ZANU-PF for decades...

Many personalities fell by the wayside between that congress and November 2017's coup which was presented as a move to stop Grace Mugabe's takeover of the party as her husband Robert's health deteriorated...

Three of the leading lights from the Grace Mugabe era are now in exile: G40 leader Saviour Kasukuwere; former party spin-doctor Jonathan Moyo; and ex-foreign minister Walter Mzembi...

Auxillia Mnangagwa the First Lady made it to the party's Central Committee following in the footsteps of Grace Mugabe...

Sekeramayi was also proposed as a presidential candidate for the G40 platform linked to President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe (AC Vol 56 No 17 The 'Grace plot' thickens)...

Some such as Grace Mugabe may have as many as 16 farms only a few of which are operational...

Chinamasa had for example paid $27m for five farms expropriated from Interfresh to expand a multi-million dollar orphanage and boarding school built by Grace Mugabe at Iron Mask Farm taken from John and Eva Matthews...

The gold from the artisanal miners was also believed to be an important source of revenue for Mnangagwa during the factional competition with the Grace Mugabe-fronted G40 faction...

Tagwirei was a close associate of then First Lady Grace Mugabe and Simba Chikore son-in-law of Robert Mugabe prior to the coup against the president in November 2017...

It was designed to ensure that Mugabe (and more importantly his ambitious wife Grace Mugabe) would be removed from the ZANU-PF presidium while keeping intact the party structures for economic and political control...

Others in and around the ruling party we hear are still pushing the interests of former First Lady Grace Mugabe and former Information Minister Jonathan Moyo (AC Vol 59 No 15 The dollars after the votes)...

The main rift in the party between supporters of Mnangagwa and the G40 faction supporting former First Lady Grace Mugabe led by the now exiled former information minister Jonathan Moyo has not healed...