The real reason why Grace Mugabe is angry with Joyce Mujuru and Ray Kaukonde

The real reason why Grace Mugabe is angry with Joyce Mujuru is not that the VP is corrupt – but that Grace's son Russell Goreraza was stopped from panning gold in Kadoma.

This is what Grace herself said during one of her rallies. She even called on Russell to stand up and come up to the podium as evidence.

If Grace was angry with Joyce Mujuru because she is corrupt, she should also be angry with herself because as a former typist who never had any other better paying job, there is no way that she could have amassed all that wealth without stealing.

Nobody can built a business from scratch, whatever that means. If people can built businesses from scratch, then all the women vendors who sit along the pavements in Harare until midnight would be running supermarkets.

If Grace is angry with Joyce Mujuru because the VP is corrupt, she should also be angry with Saviour Kasukuwere – a mere driver – who managed to become that rich. She should also be angry with Emmerson Mnangagwa who opened up businesses in the DRC after the country had spent so much money to defend the government there.

But the truth is that Grace Mugabe's anger is because she realised that they – herself and Joyce Mujuru – are clashing in business deals. She knows that Joyce Mujuru could be one of the richest people in Zimbabwe. And this has become a competition.

Of course, all along Grace could not do anything to Joyce because she was just a housewife while Joyce Mujuru a vice president. This explains why Grace has not wasted any time digging at Joyce Mujuru after she was given space on the podium.

Ray Kaukonde runs part of the Mujurus business empire. The Amalgamated Motor Corporation (AMC) is just one of those.

Her anger against Kaukonde was partly because as a CIO operative, Ray was once Sally Mugabe's bodyguard and driver. One can safely conclude that when Grace and Robert Mugabe started their illicit affair, Ray should have known about it.

Grace competes with Sally even when the latter is long dead. With Grace's bitchy attitude, anyone and anything to do with Sally is held in disdain. This is why Ray Kaukonde became a target of Grace's unbridled tongue. Why Grace wanted to embarrass Ray Kaukonde before a huge crowd.

Thankfully, Ray Kaukonde gave her the middle finger because only a person who knows a bully's weakness can act the way Ray Kaukonde acted especially now when every stupid and idiotic sucker is doing their best to edge close to Grace for future favours.

Grace is aware of all this. And her anger is not so much that Joyce Mujuru is corrupt, but that she is wealthier than the president's wife.

In this game, Joyce Mujuru has the upper hand. She is not angry like Grace who refused to shake the VP's hand. To me, Joyce gave Grace that hand to tease her.

This is why I find it very difficult to refer to Grace Mugabe as a first lady. There is nothing first lady in her. She is still that typist who looks at the next typist who would have received flowers with envy and anger.