Saviour Kasukuwere, the Zanu-PF national commissar, expects little to change at the ruling party’s annual people’s conference in Masvingo this week. "It’s a normal conference. Zanu-PF is a mature party and doesn’t go to these conferences holding expectations of chaos and mayhem," he told the Financial Mail in an interview. For watchers of the weekend-long Zanu-PF retreat, the big, but unlikely surprise would be if Robert Mugabe were to lose the support of delegates to lead the party, or if a successor to his rule emerged. Mugabe, a shrewd man with a lifetime of experience in politics, has expertly cast himself as irreplaceable in Zanu-PF. The script is likely to be the same at this week’s Masvingo showpiece as in preceding years; party slogans will be chanted, the opposition will be denounced and Western-imposed sanctions will be blamed for the country’s economic meltdown. This conference will ultimately set the stage for the official endorsement of Mugabe as Zanu-PF’s presidential ...
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