Suggestions of a new political party have begun to emerge from the losing Zanu PF faction which would include Robert Mugabe and former vice president Joice Mujuru as well as Grace Mugabe and some former members of the ruling party who are now in exile.

Emmerson Mnangagwa, assisted by the military, took over the government last November after he was sacked from his vice president’s post.





Mugabe resigned from power to avoid impeachment and met with Mujuru last week.





He sacked her in 2014 and she was then expelled from the party and formed her own small party and was expected to stand as a presidential candidate at elections later this year.





After the soft coup d’etat, Grace Mugabe and other leading lights in Zanu PF who were loyal to her were also expelled.





But a new political party is in the making called The New Patriotic Front and it has written to SADC and the AU saying that the take-over by Mnangagwa was illegal and has called on troops to go into action in Zimbabwe to restore Mugabe’s administration.