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Fierce Jockeying for Top Zanu PF Posts.
(From Zimbabwe Standard - AAGM)
Byline: Foster Dongozi
THE provinces of the ruling party will meet today to elect holders of the four topmost senior positions in Zanu PF and members of its central committee.
President Mugabe is the First Secretary and President of Zanu PF and it is assumed there is no challenge to his leadership. But interest will focus on the other three posts, one of which will be held by a woman.
Zanu PF leadership will, as a result, have to engage in some delicate ethnic balancing if it is to avoid losing the support of followers disgruntled at being left out of key party positions.
On Thursday, the Politburo resolved that at least one post out of its top four positions should be reserved for a woman. The resolution followed pressure from the Zanu PF women's league.
After President Mugabe, the other …
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