Ex-ministers comeback hopes shattered

Former Health deputy minister Edwin Muguti's hopes of bouncing back into Zanu-PF mainstream politics were last week dashed by the Harare provincial coordinating committee which blocked him from contesting in the party's primary elections for the Epworth parliamentary seat.

Provincial political commissar Shadreck Mashayamombe said yesterday that Muguti had wanted to contest in the primary elections to choose the party's representative for the September 17 by-elections but failed as "his transfer letter from Midlands province could not be verified".