WHEN former war veterans' leader Jabulani Sibanda last October warned of a "bedroom coup" brewing in Zanu PF ahead of the party's acrimonious December congress, his remarks could have simply been dismissed as polemics in an intensifying succession battle.
However, those discerning immediately realised what he was talking about and started watching the developments closely as President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace stormed the political scene from nowhere, wreaking havoc and inflicting serious political casualties on the former vice-president Joice Mujuru and her faction.
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