Zimbabwe: Mujuru Steps Up Presidential Bid

Harare — VICE-PRESIDENT Joice Mujuru has upped the ante in President Robert Mugabe's succession battle, just over a fortnight after the mysterious death of her husband in a firestorm, showing she is now more determined than before to fight it out to take over from the ageing and ailing leader.

Mujuru's move to lay the gauntlet could intensify the succession battle ahead of Zanu PF's annual national conference where Mugabe would be up for endorsement as the party's candidate in the next critical elections due either next year or in 2013.

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