CLASHES at the chaotic and divisive Zanu PF Youth League conference a fortnight ago, which once again proved the party is torn down the middle, forced President Robert Mugabe to call an emergency meeting at State House last Friday where politburo members, cabinet ministers and Zanu PF provincial leaders confronted each other.
This was part of Mugabe's efforts to reassert his grip on the party as internecine fights intensify ahead of the party's elective congress in December, by bringing everyone to the table to discuss escalating problems caused by unresolved succession issues.
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