Grace an ‘atomic bomb’, Mnangagwa

via Grace an ‘atomic bomb’, Mnangagwa – NewZimbabwe 15 January 2015

VICE President Emmerson Mnangagwa has said First Lady Grace Mugabe is a political atomic bomb because of the way she dealt with arch-nemesis Joice Mujuru in the run-up to the Zanu PF congress last year.

Mnangagwa was addressing a Zanu PF provincial coordinating committee in Gweru, Thursday, where he paid tribute to Grace for her “sterling contributions” to the party.

“The women in the party approached the First Lady Amai Grace Mugabe and requested that she comes over and lead them. We were not involved and twice she refused. They continued pestering her until she relented.

“We did not know at the time that the President Robert Mugabe was keeping a political atomic bomb at his house. She is like that bomb dropped on Hiroshima during the Second World War,” Mnangagwa gushed.

He said Grace Mugabe had single-handedly exposed former vice president Joice Mujuru and her acolytes’ plans to overthrow Mugabe and his government.

“She (First Lady) went around the country and revealed the underhand plots and plans that this group was planning.

“The fear in the people was removed and we saw them coming to congress freely. This was all because of this brave woman who took it upon herself to take this group head-on,” the acting president said.

Following her nomination to the position of Women’s League boss in August Grace Mugabe went on a whirlwind tour of the country and verbally abused Mujuru, accusing her of plotting to oust her husband violently including allegations of an assassination plot.

Mujuru has denied all the charges but she has already lost her government and party posts along with some of her most loyal lieutenants, among them former secretary for administration Didymus Mutasa and ex-spokesperson Rugare Gumbo.