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Tsvangirai- Mujuru Coalition: A Pie in the Air

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A fortnight ago, former vice president Joyce Mujuru braved up and announced that she has joined the political arena, this time in the opposition, as the leader of the Peoples First, and is more determined to square off with Robert Mugabe in the 2018 general elections. This, she said while unveiling her party policy document, Blueprint to Unlock Investment and Leverage for Development, popularly known as (BUILD). Mujuru and several other senior party members, most of them Ministers and provincial chairperson, were fired from ZANU PF and government for plotting to remove Robert Mugabe from office through ‘unconstitutional means’, a move many believe was meant to frustrate her from succeeding the nonagenarian as succession battle rages on in ZANU PF. Since their expulsion, the Gamatox faction, as affectionately known in Zanu PF circles, found political sanctuary in an idea, which later translated into a ‘project’, Peoples First, and is yet to be transformed into a political party,