Letter from Africa: Zimbabwe's banner anger

In our arrangement of letters from African writers, the producer and reporter Farai Sevenzo takes a gander at why Zimbabweans are swinging to their banner to request responsibility from government officials.

Occasionally tremors show up on the Zimbabwean political scene that indicate a movement in prospects for this rich however ambushed southern African country.

For those of us who watch the changing fortunes of Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe, the useful example is dependably to anticipate that the sudden and will make no presumptions about the result.

President Mugabe's decision Zanu-PF gathering is riven with crisp divisions over who will succeed him - powerful figures and names that once ordered whole parts in the historical backdrop of the country's insurgencies have been thrown away.