Does Grace Mugabe have ambitions of becoming the next Zimbabwean president?

The Zimbabwean first lady’s future plans came into question this week after she accepted a nomination to become secretary of the Zanu-PF Women’s League.

According to telegraph.co.uk, Mugabe was unanimously nominated for the role.

The nomination process took place during her birthday celebration in Moshonaland Central province.

Many have viewed this move as Grace Mugabe (49)’s first step into the political arena.  She is expected to officially take over as the new secretary of the Women’s League at the party’s congress next month.

“When you married the President you offered to make his troubles yours and you have been there with him ever since, even in the light of attacks by paparazzi and the West. You fought for us and the country and the only way we can repay you is to ask you to lead us,” the current women's leader, Oppah Muchinguri was quoted saying to the First Lady.

“Newspapers have written bad things about you including that you had grabbed a farm but you have stayed strong.”

Tendai Biti, the former finance minister and an MP for the Movement for Democratic Change believes that the country’s president Robert Mugabe (90) is behind his wife’s entry into politics.

“This was always his card,” he told The Telegraph. “This is why we have seen him not choosing between Vice-President Joice Mujuru and Emmerson Mnangagwa, the justice minister.”

"It doesn't matter if she is not educated. This is Africa. Look at what happened with Odinga (the Kenyan president) and Equatorial Guinea."