Zimbabwe's Mugabe fires more cabinet members

Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe has fired seven more cabinet members -- two ministers and five deputy ministers -- continuing a leadership reshuffle that began earlier this month and bringing the number of sacked cabinet members to 16, state media reported Monday.

The latest ministers booted out of the cabinet include Minister of State for Presidential Affairs Flora Buka, Minister of State in the Vice President's Office Sylvester Nguni, and deputy ministers of health, labor, lands, transport, and justice, according to a presidential statement carried by state media.

The cabinet reshuffle followed a decade-old factional fight in the ruling Zanu-PF party which peaked in early December with the camp led by Justice Minister Emmerson Mnangagwa destroyed the other camp led by former Vice President Joice Mujuru.

Mujuru, Mugabe's deputy for ten years, was allegedly purged on grounds of an assassination plot against the president. Initially seven cabinet ministers who were believed to be royal to Mujuru were sacked. The latest seven cabinet members were also known Mujuru supporters.

Mnangagwa replaced Mujuru as the country's first vice president and is now regarded as the favored heir of Mugabe, who will turn 91 in February in 2015.

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