Now ruling Zanu-PF wants Mugabe gone -party source

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe delivers a speech during a ruling party's Zanu-PF youth rally in Bulawayo on November 2, 2017. PHOTO | AFP

Leaders of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s party are making plans to force him from office if the 93-year-old leader resists pressure from the army to quit, a senior party source said on Friday.

The self-styled grand old man of African politics, the only leader Zimbabwe has known since independence in 1980, insists he is still in charge. But the source, a senior member of Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party, made clear the party wanted him gone.