Widows out to inherit political seats must work

Sometime around 2014, former Zimbabwean First Lady Grace Mugabe started strategising on how to rise to the helm of the country’s leadership. She began her machinations within ZANU-PF party by fighting Vice-President Joyce Mujulu.

She succeeded. Joyce Mujulu became an outcast and was taken out of the race to succeed Mugabe. However, as she rose in prominence, her critics also increased in number. She wielded so much power that in a fit of anger, one retired colonel uttered words that were later to define her downfall; ‘Leadership is not sexually transmitted'.