Mugabe faces end of political career

Sources said Zanu PF plans to hold a crisis meeting this week or next week, following the SADC Troika on Defence, Politics and Security meeting which shot down the party's demands to have elections held this year with or without a new constitution.

The party also wanted the polls before the implementation of agreed reforms to allow 88-year-old Mugabe to contest the election while still in good health."Our plans to have Mugabe as our party candidate are now in disarray," said a Politburo source.