PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe's ruling Zanu PF party has admitted that the internecine succession fights rocking the former liberation movement have seriously stalled government business.President Robert Mugabe has bowed to pressure from certain quarters of the military to explain his wife, Grace Mugabe’s role in the day to day running of the country.

Military sources said the Joint Operations Command (JOC) has been torn apart since factional wars in Zanu PF were taken to monumental levels resulting in the ouster of former vice president Joice Mujuru and the firing of 16 ministers from the cabinet.

However, some members of Joc expressed concerns prior to the Zanu PF December Congress that Grace’s involvement in the party was going to destabilize not only Zanu PF but the country as a whole

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This week NewsDay also reported that Grace was prodding Mugabe to appoint her Defence minister in the much-anticipated Cabinet reshuffle after she turned down the Women’s Affairs portfolio for being “less glamorous”.

However the Herald today quoted Mugabe, in his birthday interview, saying contrary to reports that Grace was now in charge of the party as well as running the show in government, he (Mugabe) is in firm control of state apparatus.

 In the midst of all this the country's economic state is degrading day after another citizens have angry military and a bankrupt country