Mujuru is accused of abusing party structures to create a centre of power. Mugabe fiddled with the party’s rules to facilitate his wife’s rise to the influential politburo. He amended Zanu (PF)’s constitution on a whim and without the requisite notice period.
His wife’s face appeared on state owned Zupco buses and she buzzed from province to province, like a fidgety dragonfly, using a government helicopter, dolling out grain and fertilizer that was probably acquired by questionable means.
Mrs Mugabe – then a rankless member of the party – commandeered the national broadcaster, hurled abuse at a member of the country’s Presidium and insulted senior party officials, without once offering a grain of evidence for the allegations she made. If that is not ‘abuse of structures’ by Mugabe then the Epworth balancing rocks are a stack of hot cross buns.