Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe sacks his vice presidentREUTERS Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe, centre, sits with his wife Grace Mugabe and Emmerson Mnangagwa, who was sworn in as Zimbabwe's vice president in 2014. Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has fired Emmerson Mnangagwa as vice president for showing "traits of disloyalty", his information minister says, removing a favourite to succeed the 93-year-old leader. Mnangagwa's removal provides a boost for Mugabe's wife, Grace, who has been a vocal critic of the vice president and is also seen as a potential successor to her husband. "The vice president has consistently and persistently exhibited traits of disloyalty, disrespect, deceitfulness and unreliability," minister Simon Khaya Moyo told reporters. REUTERS President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe has been a critic of the now-former vice president Emmerson Mnangagwa.

Source: Stuff November 06, 2017 15:22 UTC