President Robert Mugabe will meet the commander-elect of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces tomorrow on Sunday.

This was said by Father Fidelis Mukonori, the chairman of the negotiating team.

Father Mukonori said this will be the second time that President Mugabe and the ZDF command are meeting, the first meeting having taken place last Thursday.

The negotiating team is made up of Father Mukonori, the acting director general of the CIO, Cde Aaron Nhepera and the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Information, Media and Broadcasting Services, Cde George Charamba, who is also Mugabe's spokesperson.

Meanwhile, earlier today, the Daily Mail reported that last week on Tuesday evening when the army first confined Mugabe to his house, General Chiwenga eventually told him what was happening, and the 93-year-old man reportedly collapsed.

When he was later on resuscitated, the Daily Mail further reported that Mugabe tried to have a personal deal with Chiwenga but the General would not entertain any offer from Mugabe other than his resignation as the leader of Zimbabwe.

Realising how perilous his position was, Mugabe made an astonishing bid to save his own political skin — and possibly his life.

Incredibly, he promised General Chiwenga he would anoint him the next president if he called off the coup and stood down as the head of the armed forces.

In a last desperate throw of the dice to cling to power, he told Chiwenga that he would immediately be appointed Mugabe’s vice-president and that he would take over as Zimbabwe’s leader when Mugabe eventually dies.

Even then, Mugabe, a sly old fox who has long played factions off each other to remain in power, had one condition: that Grace should have a prominent role in a future government. General Chiwenga flatly turned down the offer.