Zanu-PF fumes over $30 million Mugabe debt claim

Taking a firefighting stance, ZANU-PF has reacted angrily after a newspaper claimed President Mugabe owed businessman Ray Kaukonde $30 million.  

Zanu-PF Politburo members lined up to trash the report with Simon Khaya Moyo saying someone was day dreaming. Political commissar, Saviour Kasukuwere said that's a fabricated and malicious story and it's absolute nonsense.

Mugabe last Thursday reportedly told his party's politburo meeting that he borrowed $30 million from Marondera Central MP and ousted ex-Zanu PF Mashonaland East Provincial chairman Ray Kaukonde to fund his family business in 2008.

Mugabe, however, reportedly said he would soon settle the ballooning debt. Sources said that Mugabe made the disclosure soon after the politburo upheld the decision to expel Kaukonde and six other top party officials.