Grace Mugabe: The stick prodding a wasps' nest.

For some people divisiveness is a talent. His Excellency President Mugabe's wife, Amai Grace (or should it be Dr Grace) Mugabe is one of such people.

Powerful first world intelligence agencies spend decades trying to pry open what they perceived to be chinks in Zanu-PF. They had little success. Now in a couple of weeks, the first lady has clearly managed to rip Zanu-PF into two chunks. I bow my head to her. Her talent at divisiveness is unmatched.

She even put on a rather juvenile show of not shaking Mai Mujuru's hand when the first family left for the Vatican.

It is clear that Amai is fighting other people's battles. She is being used as the stick that prods the wasps' nest. What I am still struggling to figure out is whose battles.

At face value one could say that Emmerson Mnangagwa has often been cited as the 'other' faction leader so Amai must be in bed with Mnangagwa.

However from the way things have been going, I am now wondering whether Mnangagwa himself is not just another stick being used by some hidden hand to prod the dreaded wasps nest.

It is clear that Amai's chief handler has been Oppah Muchinguri. It is no secret that Oppah and Joice Mujuru shared camps - and probably competed for men too - during the liberation war. Oppah's involvement and past 'competition' most likely explains the jealous tinge to Amai's ranting against the vice president.

Amai herself was not involved in the liberation war. Her only claim to political legitimacy in Zanu-PF is who she had sex with long after the liberation war. It is definitely not liberation war credentials.

Then there is the role the living ghost, Jonathan Moyo, seems to be playing in directing the state media to provide negative for the Vice President.

That Moyo is a schemer is an open secret. He was the chief mover in the Tsholotsho putcsh, which he convened to try and engineer the ouster of Robert Mugabe.

Remember as well, that Moyo minted his political career as a critic of Zanu-PF. During his heyday as a columnist for the Financial Gazette he was the most virulent critic of Zanu-PF. This was at a time when Westerners were still showering knighthoods and honorary degrees on Mugabe.

One wonders whether his is not a mission to destroy Zanu-PF. After having failed to make any dents from outside, he seems to be making an effort from inside now, turning Zanu-PF stalwarts against each other - in classical divide and destroy manoeuvre.

I do not think Zanu-PF is about to implode. However I do think Amai Grace his been hung out on a very delicate branch.